The recent popularity of creating vegetable gardens is a welcomed and noble notion, but gardeners should take heed of the potentially sig...

A lawn mower physically prevents any tree seedling from growing by cutting it short and removing its leaves, which eventually kills the s...

Our new ‘Top Trees’ series highlights Martin’s favourite trees under 10 metres for use in urban home landscapes. This month, we showcase ...

There are several flowers we anticipate and enjoy once a year as the days lengthen and spring begins to transform the landscapes around u...

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 w...

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

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

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

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

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

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 s...

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

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

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 O...

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 w...

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; i...

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

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...

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