Trees & Shrubs Archives

Manitoba Story: Water for winter

It is heartbreaking to drive down the street in springtime and see dead evergreens, especially, cedars lining driveways. Homeowners planted

Let’s celebrate Canada’s heart beat with bred in Manitoba red maple trees. Plus 150 more wishes for Manitoba’s sesquicentennial anniversary.

By Dorothy Dobbie American elms and Dutch elm disease The native elm bark beetle, Hylurgopina rupifes, and the smaller European

In the wintertime, black knot infections become increasingly apparent. Black knot is a fungus, Apiosporina morbosa, that colonizes members of

Understanding how plants breathe and preventing winter burn Plants breathe through their leaves. It is estimated that the total water

How to deal with your damaged trees after the storm Trees were the major casualty of the sudden snowstorm October

Highbush cranberry grows wild just about everywhere in Canada.

Lowbush cranberry The lowbush cranberry (Vaccinium macrocarpon) is a North American plant, related to the blueberry, that grows naturally in

New life for old shrubs Nearly all well-established gardens have at least one old shrub which is often ignored until

The bronze birch bark borer and the birch leaf miner Several pests attack birch trees, especially those that are under

by Dorothy Dobbie When and where to plant a birch The best time to plant a birch tree is spring