While annuals, biennials, bulbs, and perennials bring fragrance and color to the garden, trees and shrubs add additional beauty, shade, and shelter. For energy efficience, trees and shrubs are invaluable. In fact, landscaping may be your best long-term investment for energy saving. Trees properly positioned can save on heating and cooling. Trees and shrubs provide windbreaks, control erosion, provide animal habitat and food, and help clean the air. Here in the treehouse of Putting Down Roots, trees and shrubs share the limelight. Below, you will find brief intros to each posting.

If you'd like to share your own hints and tips on selection, planting, growing, and pruning trees and shrubs or respond to one of the postings already here, click here for the hows and whys of posting.

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Free eBook: The Ancient Art Of Bonsai: Revised Edition by Elizabeth Chute

Here's a little eBook covering the basics of Bonsai for the beginner. From how to take care of your new bonsai plant to advanced techniques like wiring, this handy guide is a lovely introduction to an ancient art. Beautiful photos. (zipped EXE file)

Transplanting Tips by Michael J. McGroarty

Early spring is a great time for transplanting trees and shrubs, but you must do so before they wake up. Transplanting a plant is a very traumatic experience for the plant if it is awake. It's like doing surgery on a person while they are awake.

Dormancy starts in the fall as soon as you experience a good hard freeze, and the plants remain dormant until the weather warms up in the spring. This is when you should transplant, while the plants are dormant. You can transplant in the spring up until the plants leaf out. Read More ...

Tree Pruning Tips by Michael J. McGroarty

There are two kinds of winter gardening. The first method usually starts in January as the gardening catalogs begin to arrive in the mail. This type of gardening is as easy and sitting in your favorite chair, browsing the catalogs, and either dreaming about what you're going to do this spring, or actually drawing designs for the gardens you intend to work on.

The second type of winter gardening is to actually get out in the yard and do a little work. Of course if it's bitter cold, you'd be better off waiting for a good day. Read More . . .

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