In the midst of the uncertainty and anxiety surrounding COVID-19, when we feel like things are out of our control, one pro-active thing we can do is to take ...

Our new ‘Top Trees’ series highlights Martin’s favourite trees under 10 metres for use in urban home landscapes. It's March Maple Madness! All noted trees ar...

When we include succession in our city landscapes, there is minimal need to replant trees as we continually do now. By succession, we mean planting very youn...

All trees renew their foliage – even ‘evergreen’ conifers drop their needles after a few years. Some, however, shed them dramatically in a very short time an...

Our new ‘Top Trees’ series highlights Martin’s favourite trees under 10 metres for use in urban home landscapes. February is for Conifers! All noted trees ar...

Both are mysterious to present day people. We are far more familiar with grand, broad-leaf trees than with Conifers and Palms, which make up a smaller part o...

We’d like to bring a ‘real’ tree into our home during Christmas. It has a lovely scent and it revives our connection to nature. But the struggle is that it’s...

Evergreens benefit greatly from an application of water just before freeze-up. Over the long months until spring, the plants’ systems are naturally barely ac...

There are lots of places to plant trees in cities – but we are told otherwise. Below are many of the traditional reasons/rationales given for this (to be deb...

Native trees have already begun preparing for the long cold that is coming by recognizing that the day lengths are shortening.

Our Top 20 List of how trees positively affect our cities continues with a very timely post given the heat and humidity that attends an Ontario summer after ...

Our Top 20 reasons for why trees enhance our cities continues this month as we examine the scale of time that is instantly created when we view massive, spre...

We're steadily heading through the Top 20 list of how trees add value to our lives and to our homes. This next blog hits close to home; in fact, it is about ...

As we continue exploring the contribution to our lives of including trees in our yards, neighbourhoods, and cities, we must recognize the synergistic benefit...

Last month we introduced a list of 20 features that trees add to the health and function of a city and that enable people to benefit both physically and fina...

Yet another cold winter’s day and for many, nature’s monochromatic grey-white scheme barely elicits another glance. The drab trees melt into the background a...

It seemed innocent enough when this tree was used as a post for a washing line; several years later this picture shows the result. All trees move liquids and...

So how do we read that unique tale? When a plant is single-stemmed and approximately double our height (10-15’) we give it the status of a tree. We now not...

Much of our horticultural literature in Canada is based on European knowledge and in the case of pruning, Europeans do not remove more than 30% of a canopy i...

Remedial pruning is practiced when a plant has become too large for its site. This can happen because the garden design has changed but more frequently it is...