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 LinksWhat differentiates a bulb from a perennial plant is that the nourishment for the flower is stored within the bulb itself.…There is something miraculous about the way that a little grenade of dried up tissue can explode into a complete flower.
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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.