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Beautifying Your Landscape With Woody Ornamentals

Gardening enthusiasts spend a great deal of time and money on beautifying their landscapes. One of the most important aspects of a beautiful landscape is the planting of the right woody ornaments. Other than aesthetics, woody ornaments such as trees and shrubs can also lend character to your landscape. A simple tree adds something special to a view and a suitable palm can offer some privacy in your home. Before you go adding woody ornaments to your landscape, it helps to learn more about trees, palms, groundcover plants, and even shrubs like azaleas, which are very popular. Here’s some information about the plants with tips on about how to care for them.

Trees

  • 9 Things to Know: Provides important information about trees and their care, with links to other pages.
  • Caring for Trees in a Dry Climate: Explains how to properly care for trees in a dry climate where it’s hard to grow them.
  • Care and Maintenance: Discusses various care situations, such as when construction is being done or basic pruning tips, with links to other sources of information.
  • Basic Tree Care: Provides essential information on caring for all types of trees.
  • How to Prune Trees: Offers some important tips on how to prune trees.

Groundcovers

  • From the Ground up: Provides general information about groundcovers as well as some suggestions on how to care and manage them.
  • Xeriscaping: Ground Cover Plants: Offers very good information about the care of groundcover plants including what types of soil should be used, etc.
  • Groundcover Species: A listing of some of the most common types of groundcover plants with detailed information about them.
  • Uses and Planting: Discusses how to properly plant groundcover plants as well as when they should be planted.
  • Groundcovers: Provides information about different types of groundcovers, both common and uncommon, as well as how to properly space them when planting.

Shrubs

  • Trees and Shrubs: An excellent archive of articles that discuss shrub-related care topics.
  • Drought Tolerant Shrubs: A look at the species of shrubs which are more likely to survive droughts, making them more suitable in dryer areas.
  • Pruning Ornamental Shrubs: Describes how to properly prune shrubs, which is essential to their health.
  • Pruning Shrubs: Another page that touches on the importance of pruning shrubs and how to do it properly.
  • Shrub Care: A list of links to multiple good articles about how to properly care for shrubs, including what to do in colder climates.

Palms

  • Guide to Palms: Comprehensive website with information on almost everything you ever wanted to know about palms.
  • Palm Diseases: Shows how to tell when a palm has become diseased and what you can do to save it.       
  • Palm Haven: A collection of articles that discuss palms and their care.
  • All about Palms: Provides information on palms, divided into categories covering such topics like palm leaves, palm stems, palm tree flowers, palm tree fruit, etc.
  • Palm Trees for Landscapes: (PDF Document) Provides information on some palms that are good for using on landscapes.
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