If a fir is cultivated in your own garden, then the question arises as to how fast the tree will grow. Because then it can quickly take up a lot of space in the garden and provide shade or serve as a Christmas tree in winter. Fir trees – different varieties When talking about a fir…
As one of the most beautiful cultivated forms of the Sawara cypress, the Filifera Nana is twice as wide as it is high. At the same time, the evergreen cypress forms a hemispherical or spherical silhouette, giving the hobby gardener plenty of scope for garden design. After many years it will have reached a height of approx….
Hemlocks are remarkably tall trees that simply outgrow most gardens. As an alternative, however, there are a number of small-scale varieties that are suitable even for today’s terraced gardens. Hemlocks are a bit choosy when it comes to location and planting medium, but are otherwise fairly easy to care for. What they cannot tolerate is prolonged drought. The trees…
We breathe in the scent of fresh needles, collect cones and marvel at the graceful growth of different conifers in the forests. Sometimes we don’t even know what kind of tree it is. Spruce and fir may look confusingly similar, but if you know which details to look out for, you can still tell the Picea and…
In summer, coniferous trees such as spruce and fir trees provide pleasant shade in your own garden and exude an unmistakable, resinous scent, but they pose a challenge for the rest of the vegetation. Often the garden areas lie fallow under the coniferous plants, which creates a rather desolate impression. But that doesn’t have to be…
One often reads or hears the question of how fir trees are properly shortened. Overall, this is a much-discussed topic on which opinions sometimes differ greatly. There are also some facts that speak in favor of not pruning these trees at all. This article is very comprehensive about whether fir trees should be shortened at all. The contras, which…
The first signs are yellow and brown needles on the shoot tips or inside a fir tree. In the early stages, these symptoms only catch the eye of the attentive observer. If the problem that caused it is not addressed, Korean, Colorado, and other popular fir species will eventually lose most of their needles. Instead of coming to…
Size alone is not the key to success. This thesis not only applies to humans and animals, but also has a significant impact on the plant world. Small plants know only too well how to put themselves in the right light so as not to go unnoticed. The dwarf juniper is such a small master of the art…
As a rule, spruces are large trees with growth heights between 20 and 70 meters, which can also be up to 600 years old. The tall species are not suitable for home gardens because they grow quickly and cast enormous shadows, are vulnerable to wind damage, have very shallow roots that spread far and deprive other…
The decorative fir, which is also known under the names Andean fir, snake tree, monkey tail tree, Chilet fir or shingle fir, belongs to the araucaria family. This evergreen conifer is one of the oldest still living and one of the rarest plant species in the world. It is now threatened with extinction in its country of…