Buying Fruit Trees
Go to your local garden centre to check out the mouth watering range of fruit trees just waiting to be planted in your garden this spring. When it comes to peaches, go with the yellow fleshed and superbly flavoured Elberta. While the ever ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Fruit Trees
It is amazing to think that when you are buying your fruit trees, rose bush or ornamental bush it is almost like you are getting two plants in one. Below where the plants have been grafted are the root stock and it will be a rootstock selected ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
HortNews - Heritage Fruit Trees Discovered In North Otago
Old, almost forgotten orchards throughout North Otago are attracting the attention of local horticultural network Futuregro. OAMARU 10/4/2002 - Old, almost forgotten orchards throughout North Otago are attracting the attention of local ... [... more]
HortNET New Zealand |
Fertilising Trees
When you are fertilising your garden it is easy to overlook the established trees but they need feeding just as much as any other plant. The trouble is, if the tree is growing in a lawn then the grass will try to gobble up all the nutrients ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Jacarandas and Other Monsoonal Deciduous Trees
This is a wonderful time of year because there are so many trees in full flower and looking absolutely spectacular. Burke's Backyard visited the town of Grafton in northern New South Wales at the peak of jacaranda time, and used a cherry picker ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
HortNews - Trees Die In Thousands In Marlborough Drought
Thousands of trees are dying in Marlborough as the region struggles with drought. BLENHEIM 15/2/2001 - Thousands of trees are dying in Marlborough as the region struggles with drought. Local resident Roger Randall said 10,000 eucalyptus orata ... [... more]
HortNET New Zealand |
Christmas Trees
The smell of Christmas is here. Nothing gets the Yuletide spirit going like the fragrance of fresh pine needles. Forget your plastic trees, how about choosing a real one to take home and decorate creating that very special Christmas feel in your ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
HortNews - Tiny Fungi Might Protect Trees - NZ Researcher
Communities of microscopic fungi that live inside trees might help protect their hosts from disease and predators, says a New Zealand researcher. WELLINGTON 23/11/2005 - Communities of microscopic fungi that live inside trees might help protect ... [... more]
HortNET New Zealand |
Australia To Destroy Trees In Citrus Canker Crisis
Another 50,000 orange trees will be burnt on a central Queensland property in the wake of the citrus canker crisis. BRISBANE 16/07/2004 - Another 50,000 orange trees will be burnt on a central Queensland property in the wake of the citrus canker ... [... more]
HortNET New Zealand |
Shrubs, trees, conifers and groundcovers
Shape shrubs, trim conifers and other trees and give your groundcovers a 'haircut'. Go easy when pruning trees. An established tree usually only needs some dead wood removed, but you may want to thin out the branches so more light reaches the ... [... more]
Better Homes & Gardens Australia |
HortNews - Olive Trees Taking Root In Manawatu
Getting the good oil on olive growing five years ago has led former sheep farmer Graham McGregor to plant an experimental grove of 300 trees on a Manawatu property. PALMERSTON NORTH 8/2/2001 - Getting the good oil on olive growing five years ago ... [... more]
HortNET New Zealand |
HortNews - Forest Research Starts Planting Out GE Trees
State-owned science company Forest Research has re-activated its planting programme for genetically engineered (GE) trees. WELLINGTON 22/07/2003 - State-owned science company Forest Research has re-activated its planting programme for genetically ... [... more]
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