Tree Survival Tips for Summer Heat

By Kathy Purdy August 5, 2010 – Posted in: Garden Tweets, Plant info, Recommended Links
5 comments

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.

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Kathy Purdy is a colchicum evangelist, converting unsuspecting gardeners into colchicophiles. She would be delighted to speak to your group about colchicums or other gardening topics. Kathy’s been writing since 4th grade, gardening since high school, and blogging since 2002.

When dealing with frost it is always best to be paranoid. In the spring never think it is too late for one more frost to come. And in the fall never think it too early.

~Rundy in Frost

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Dirty Girl Gardening August 19, 2010, 11:51 pm

I’m so jealous! It’s in the fifties where I garden! Ug.

Kathy Purdy August 20, 2010, 8:22 am

Wow. And I thought I had a cold climate! But you typically don’t get that cold in the winter, right?

Craig @ Ellis Hollow August 5, 2010, 9:25 pm

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/

Stephanie Suesan Smith August 5, 2010, 2:29 pm

Thank you for a cool resource. Of course, your hot and mine are different — it is 107 today here.

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