Tree Survival Tips for Summer Heat via The Wired Gardener http://bit.ly/bvVLTi. The Wired Gardener is a newsletter, now become a blog, of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s McClean Library. It almost always has a link to an online gardening resource I hadn’t heard about, and now includes helpful blog posts about current gardening topics, such as this one about caring for trees when it is unusually hot.
Tree Survival Tips for Summer Heat
August 5, 2010 – Posted in: Garden Tweets, Plant info, Recommended LinksNow, the digging and dividing of perennials, the general autumn cleanup and the planting of spring bulbs are all an act of faith. One carries on before the altar of delayed gratification, until the ground freezes and you can’t do any more other than refill the bird feeder and gaze through the window, waiting for the snow. . . . Meanwhile, it helps to think of yourself as a pear tree or a tulip. You will blossom spectacularly in the spring, but only after the required period of chilling.
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I’m so jealous! It’s in the fifties where I garden! Ug.
Wow. And I thought I had a cold climate! But you typically don’t get that cold in the winter, right?
Wrote this article for Cornell Horticulture blog with similar advice:
Rx for landscape woes: Water trees and shrubs, not lawn
http://blogs.cornell.edu/hort/2010/08/03/rx-for-landscape-woes-water-trees-and-shrubs-not-lawn/
Thank you for a cool resource. Of course, your hot and mine are different — it is 107 today here.