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…
Elderberries are known for fragrant clouds of flowers and delicious, healthy fruit. In Central Europe, a distinction is made between three native types of elder: 1. the grape elder (Sambucus racemosa), 2. the dwarf elder (Sambucus ebolus) and 3. the black elder (Sambucus nigra). The latter is the most common species. This elder grows quite large, too…
In spring, when most of the trees are still stretching their bare branches towards the sky, the Norway maple is already showing its yellow umbels of flowers. These catch the eye because they appear before the palm-sized leaves of the tree. Of the more than 100 maple species, the Norway maple is the most common in Germany. If…
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…
Walnuts taste good and are healthy. Walnut is one of the finest and most expensive woods. Walnut trees are often found in large gardens mainly in the hope of a bountiful harvest of tasty nuts. Harvesting is easy, the ripe fruits fall to the ground and you just have to pick them up. Why do you have to wash…
It welcomes spring with fresh green leaves on branches with a reddish tinge. Its dense foliage provides welcome shade in summer and turns into a bright, colorful spectacle in autumn. As the most common deciduous tree in Germany, the common beech has long since conquered the hearts of enthusiastic hobby gardeners. In park-like areas, the Fagus sylvatica characterizes…
It is not necessarily one of the common trees for bonsai culture. Nevertheless, it is perhaps precisely this circumstance that tempts the experienced hobby gardener to choose the Peruvian pepper tree, to shape it according to the old, Far Eastern garden art. In the wild, the evergreen tree reaches a height of more than 10 meters. In the…
Garden lovers looking for a fast-growing tree will find what they are looking for in the Chinese tree of heaven with the botanical name Ailanthus altissima. This deciduous tree species grows up to 30 meters high in nutrient-rich locations. Even in lean and dry places, it still shoots up to 25 meters in height. It is not for…
Are you looking for new trees for your garden, maybe even a house tree, and would you like to plant deciduous trees that are something special? The service tree is a good candidate in this case. In the following article you will learn a lot about planting and caring for the almost forgotten “Sorbus torminalis”. plant…
One of the most unusual trees that Mother Nature has produced is the handkerchief tree, with the botanical name Davidia involucrata. Its unique petals, up to 18 cm long, are amazingly similar to white handkerchiefs on a clothesline. Viewed from a distance, the opposite white bracts are reminiscent of a flock of pigeons that have settled there. That…