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Cornus kousa

Kousa Dogwood: Your Complete Growing and Care Guide

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Mature olive tree with silvery-green foliage under intense summer sun in a dry Mediterranean garden

Olive trees in summer heat: why perfect watering fails and how to keep them thriving through peak season

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Large magnolia tree in full bloom with white and pink cup-shaped flowers against blue sky

Magnolia trees: growing, pruning, and caring through every season

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Potted lemon tree with yellowing leaves and sparse fruit in summer heat

The watering mistake that stops citrus trees fruiting in summer

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Small unripe orange fruitlets dropping from a potted orange tree in summer

Your orange tree is full of tiny fruitlets — why are so many dropping off right now?

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Kumquat tree branches covered in small green unripe fruits in summer garden

Your kumquat is loaded with fruit but nothing is ripening — here’s why

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Potted lemon tree with stunted growth and yellowing leaves in June

Your lemon tree has stopped growing — here’s what it’s telling you

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Alder tree

Alder, a resilient tree well adapted to wetlands

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Elm tree

Elm, a beautiful tall tree

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pomegranate tree

Pomegranate, much easier to grow than you’d think

The fruit Orchard
Laurus nobilis

Laurus nobilis, the nobleman’s true bay laurel

Herbs and spices
Magnolia grandiflora

Grandiflora Magnolia: evergreen star of summer, amazing head-sized blooms

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Tree tomato

Tree tomato, how to plant and care for Tomato Tree

The fruit Orchard
Damson plum

Damson plum, a sweet European plum: planting, care, harvest

The fruit Orchard
Mimosa in a pot

Mimosa in a pot, grow that winter sun at home!

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mimosa tree varieties

Mimosa tree varieties: more blooms in winter!

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Paulownia, a fast-growing shade tree

Paulownia, racing for the heavens… to provide blissful shade for all!

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Fagus sylvatica, common beech

Fagus sylvatica, beech tree: varieties, planting and care

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yuzu tree

Yuzu, a hardy citrus for colder climates

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Kaffir makrut citrus hystrix

Kaffir lime, a small, lumpy citrus with a tasty Asian tang

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Mandarin orange tree

Mandarin, the ancestor of Clementines, delicious fruits and hardier tree

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White willow branch with catkins against a silver body of water

White willow, a light, breezy willow to line riverbeds and lakes

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Cordyline australis - Cabbage tree

Cordyline australis, a palm-like plant that does great in cold weather

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Large, straight beech tree

Beech, a tall, smooth-skinned gigantic shade tree

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Honey locust planting and care

Honey locust, a sweet giant – with massive thorns!

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Lush moringa leaf with lots of leaflets

Moringa oleifera, a fast-growing tree with edible leaves

The fruit Orchard
Lemon tree wrapped up in winterizing fleece

Get your lemon tree ready for winter: in pots and in the ground, indoors and outside

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Betula utilis jacquemontii, the himalayan birch

Betula jacquemontii, a fabulous white-bark birch

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Japanese dogwood - Cornus Kousa

Japanese dogwood, striking flowers and fruits

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ornamental olive

Trendy with good reason: ornamental olive

The fruit Orchard
Cercidiphyllum

Cercidiphyllum – the sweet-scented tree that comes from the East

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Parrotia persica, the persian ironwood tree

Persian ironwood, strong wood and even stronger colors!

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Yellow leaves of the caramel tree

Caramel tree, delicious eye candy for the garden

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Chestnut tree

Chestnut tree, a favorite of bees and winter snacking alike!

The fruit Orchard
Eucryphia planting and care

Eucryphia, the slender “Ulmo” tree covered in white flowers

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Japanese pagoda tree from small to big

Japanese pagoda tree, ideal for larger gardens

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Horse chestnut

Horse chestnut tree, are you up to a game of conkers?

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Shinus molle, pink peppercorn

Pink Peppercorn, the false pepper: Shinus molle

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Willow leaf pear

Willow-leaf pear, a beautiful ornamental fruit tree with wispy leaves

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bradford pear

Bradford pear, from beloved to banished – keep a lookout for it!

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Blooming white flower cluster of the sorbus mountain ash rowan tree

Mountain ash, rowan – a boon for bees, birds and beauty lovers

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Scotch laburnum forms cascades of yellow flowers

Scotch laburnum, magnificent yellow bunches

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Caucasian elm leaves

Caucasian elm, delicate yellow leaves in fall for a hardy-proof winter

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Quince fruit in a basket with spices

Quince, grown for thousands of years yet unknown of all

The fruit Orchard
Catalpa tree

Catalpa, a shade tree with amazing orchid-like blooms

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Silk tree flower with pink rim and white center

Silk tree – proper care and soft pruning for this silk-flowered tree

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Flower of the Robinia pseudoacacia umbraculifera variety

Robinia pseudoacacia ‘Umbraculifera’, a round-shaped tree for gardens and containers

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Delineated mophead acacia tree

Mophead acacia, a beautiful acacia with a happily frazzled appearance

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acacia tree

Acacia tree – planting, care and pruning of this towering shade-giver

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Nectarine tree

Nectarine tree, how to grow nectarines

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Katsura tree

Katsura, the tree that produces a sweet-smelling fragrance

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