Articles related to "Malus"



Apples (Malus pumila Mill./Malus domestica B.)
Cultivated globally, the apple is one of the most popular members of the Rose (Rosaceae) Family.
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Red Winter Fruits
In this article we will look at two different plants that produce showy red fruits in the winter.
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The Apple of His Eye
The history, folklore, and uses of the apple
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Flowering Crabapples - A Review
Flowering Crabapples: "The Genus Malus" by Rev. John L. Fiala is an essential reference for those wanting to know about flowering crabapple trees in built landscapes.
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Crabapple Trees in the Landscape
Eighteen kinds of crabapples form the backdrop to a Memorial Garden in a western MA orchard. Autumn crabapple display begins with warm sunny days and cold nights.
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Crabapples and Autumn Qualities
Crabapple trees stand out with autumn characteristics that make them top-notch landscape trees. Plantings of intelligent choices do well with good cultural practices.
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Growing Apple Trees as Container Plants
Growing apple trees as container plants can reduce garden pests and disease and improve edible apple crops. Here's how to start growing apples in container gardens.
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Arkansas and Michigan State Flower - Apples
Apple blooms are the state flowers for both Michigan and Arkansas states. Michigan and Arkansas states were known for apple production early in their statehood.
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Selecting a Crabapple Tree
Are you thinking of buying a crabapple but have heard that they are disease prone? Today's article will help you select a crabapple that is disease resistant.
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Spring Flowering Trees
The right flowering tree can bring great beauty to your spring garden. Here are some favorites to consider for your own landscape design plan.
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Spring Themed Garden Plants
In this group of plants all have names that reflect spring themes! A fun way to pay tribute to this fleeting but powerful time of the year.
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Apple and Coconut Wholemeal Loaf Recipe
Baking a fruit loaf ready for slicing and packing in a back-to-school lunchbox is a pleasure. Using organic ingredients where possible can only improve the taste.
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Bright Berries for Winter Gardens
Learn how to use plants with winter fruits or berries to add color and delight to your garden. There are so many delightful trees, shrubs and others to choose from!
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Camelot Themed Garden Plants
These perennials, annuals and other plants will add a chivalrous feel to your garden as you celebrate the myth of the Knights of the Round Table.
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Harvest and Autumn Themed Garden
Plant names are rich with charm and description. These annuals, perennials and shrubs all have fall, autumn or harvest themed names.
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Tree Plants for the New Year
See the best of the new shade and ornamental trees available to home gardeners in 2008. Healthy plants, unique forms and beautiful colors.
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Winter and Holiday Themed Plants
There are so many fun ways to enjoy winter in the garden year-round including planting some of these winter themed plants.
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Hot Colours in the Country Garden
Do the hot colours - red, yellow and orange - have a place in the country garden?
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Wildlife and Gardens - Part 6
If you want to attract wildlife to your garden, you need to consider plants that will provide food for the critters the year around. You need to use plants that are appropriate for your garden and where you are in the world.
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Official Designated State Flowers
Each state in the United States of America has a formal flower. Some blooms are claimed by more than one place. Check this complete state by state listing.
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Trees and Shrubs with Purple Leaves
A great many trees and shrubs have purple foliage that can create garden drama, whether as specimens or integrated as the backbone of a garden bed. Here are 17 varieties.
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Winter Berries in Southern Garden Landscapes
Trees and shrubs that produce colorful berries bring winter beauty to landscape gardens. They may also provide winter shelter as well as food for fruit-eating birds.
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Weeping Form Deciduous Trees
Six of the best deciduous trees with weeping growth habit and pendulous silhouettes. Is your favorite listed?
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Crabapple Tree Diseases
Crabapple diseases ruin landscape designs. Bacteria and fungi cause the majority of crabapple diseases. Awareness and proper environments lead to healthy crabapples.
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Trees and Town Gardens
With Christmas and winter almost upon us, our gardens are now entering a long hibernation period. While we are admiring the winter landscape and thinking of warmer days, I consider what trees can do for you and your garden.
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Autumn Trees in the Garden 2
More of the beautiful trees we should grow in our gardens.
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Butterfly Gardens for Pollinators
Butterfly gardens are easy to grow and attract beneficial insects. Understanding these pollinators will help when creating a flower garden for butterflies.
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Flowering Trees
Flowering Trees mean the end of winter and beginning of spring
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The Best Trees and Shrubs for Fruits or Berries
Berried plants are one of the glories of the garden in autumn and winter. At a time of year when flowers are in short supply many woody plants display attractive fruits.
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Trees are for all seasons.
I have developed a love affair with trees and now have a yardful of them.
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Using Landscape Fabric
Landscape fabrics work for specific projects. Some plant groups thrive and are easier to maintain than other groups when used with these erosion and weed control fabrics.
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Apple Harvesting and Storage in October
Apples, on fruit trees grown in orchards, open yards and in containers, should be ripe and ready for harvesting and storing in October. Here's what to do this month.
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Bring Height to the Flower Garden
Introducing height into the garden can be accomplished by using plants, garden structures, fountains and even a mound of earth.
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Buying Dwarfing or Semi-Dwarfing Apple Trees
An awareness about how apple tree rootstocks affect the size of apple trees will help gardeners buying dwarfing or semi-dwarfing apple trees to plant out in fall/winter.
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Forcing Branches to Bloom Early Indoors
Most flowering trees and shrubs can be coaxed into their spring dresses in the middle of winter.
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How to Choose from Different Apple Varieties
Though a few types of apples may be considered all-purpose, each variety has unique qualities that make it the right choice for a particular style of preparation.
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Massachusetts Bridge of Flowers
The Bridge of Flowers in Shelburne Falls, MA, dedicated in 1929, adapted the idea of a New England garden by using a relic trolley bridge. Well worth the visit.
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The Best Trees to Select for Small Gardens
Where space permits only one or two small trees in the garden, then in order to get value for money it's important to select specimens with several seasons of interest.
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How About Dem Apples?
Late summer, autumn until mid winter is apple season in North America. No fruit is more shrouded in folklore and more versatile.
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In danger: Canada's Deep South
Although I grew up in Southwestern Ontario, I never realized it was once the richest and most diverse habitat in the country, an area known as Carolinian Canada.
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Landscape Maintenance Mistakes
Landscape maintenance mistakes abound in both residential and public landscapes. What are some of these landscape maintenance errors and how do they happen? Photographs.
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Lilacs: A Gardener's Encyclopedia – A Review
Lilacs: A Gardener' s Encyclopedia by Fr. John L. Fiala (1988) was revised and updated by Freek Vrugtman (2008). Contains in-depth information about the genus Syringa.
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The Darkest Trees and Shrubs
There are two shrubs that have leaves that are more black than anything - and several more in dark colors deep enough to work as if they were ebony colored.
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What Still Looks Good?
Inspiration for the fall garden! Enjoy some unusual hardy perennials, grasses, trees and shrubs with wonderful fall interest as guest columnist and garden designer Abby Millager describes her zone 5 Massachusetts garden in mid October.
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Daylily Rust- Where Will It End
A "new disease" has daylily fanciers worried. The daylily Rust disease entered the US in 2000 and already may well already be well on its way to infecting the entire mainland. Whats more it is turning up in new locales abroad also. Whats it all about?
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Trees we have known
Take a closer look at the spiritual nature of individual trees and meet several from the author's life. Join the Tree Story Contest in honor of Arbor Day.
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Winter Garden Interest V - Berries and Broadleaf Evergreens
There are plenty of plants with bright berries that summon the birds to your winter garden. And there are shrubs and trees that keep their leaves in the cold, adding more color and fullness to the scene.

Ornamental Grasses For Shade - A List for Light Shade
Gardening in Shade: Ornamental grasses for shade - A List for Light Shade
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