Bark Archives

Fagus sylvatica, beech tree: varieties, planting and care

Fagus sylvatica or beech is a majestic tree common in European forests. Fagus sylvatica key facts: Botanical name – Fagus sylvatica Common names – common beech Family – Fagaceae Type – Tree Foliage – deciduous and marcescent Bearing – round Height – up to 75 feet (25 meters) Breadth – Up to 60 feet (20 […]

Discover BRF or RCW, Ramial Chipped Wood, the next mulch revolution!

BRF is a common term in forestry. It is derived from the French “Bois Raméal Fragmenté”, or Ramial Chipped Wood. Anybody can make this mulch from crushed and shredded green wood branches. It’s the best mulch for enriching and protecting garden soil.

Ramial chipped wood is made from branches.

Maritime pine bark, an excellent acidic mulch

Pine bark is an excellent mulch, both useful and very elegant.

Betula jacquemontii, a fabulous white-bark birch

In the birch family, Betula utilis jacquemontii shines with its silver-white trunk.

Betula utilis jacquemontii, the himalayan birch

Best substrate and soil mix for orchids, and how to make your own

Orchids are surely the plants for which the growth medium is most critical to the plant’s thriving.

Propagate a mimosa tree from bark

This method of bark propagation works particularly well for the mimosa tree. It is especially useful if you wish to replace a tree that was damaged and you still have access to its remains.

Two slabs of bark from a damaged tree recovered with sprouting mimosa tree shoots.

Designing a sensory garden

A sensory garden has a simple goal: maximize the sensory experience of its visitors. Designing such a garden isn’t very difficult. You can follow various themes, set portions up into dedicated areas, or fuse all the experiences together as a whole.

Techniques to save a poisoned tree

Have you sprayed too much insecticide on your tree? Applied too much fertilizer? There may still be a chance to save your plant. Here is how to save a poisoned tree.

Plant trees!

After choosing your bare-root tree and its spot in the garden, make the most of November. Gardeners know that the Saint Catherine Feast day (on Nov 25th) is best to succeed your planting. (Editor’s note: it’s possible to plant in spring for specimens purchased in pots or containers.)

Birch, a very ornamental tree

Birch is a magnificent ornamental tree, known for its distinctive white bark.

Birch tree leaves with trunk in the background.

Birch health benefits… leaves, sap, bark, buds, it’s all helpful!

What are the health benefits of birch? How does it impact our body? Which uses maximize its effects?

Cypress canker

Cypress canker is really the only disease known to this conifer. Although generally quite hardy, a canker infection can devastate

Cornus alba, the white dogwood that’s actually pretty red… and green… and white!

A classic sight in gardens, Cornus alba is a shrub that both easy to grow, and strikingly ornamental.

Kill off diseases on fruit trees over winter with these treatments

Fall and Winter are the time to apply various treatments that will help eliminate parasites and fungus from fruit trees. This will reduce risk of disease in Spring.

Canker, techniques and organic treatments to avoid it

Infecting most ornamental plants such as cypress, willow or fruit trees such as the peach tree, apricot tree or cherry tree, canker is a fungal disease that

Canker on the branch of a fruit tree with a drop of sap.

How to create a colorful garden

How to add color to your garden? Combine plants, garden furniture and mark out selected portions of the garden for specific functions, learn the art of creating a garden full of colors!

Colorful garden with plants and ornaments

A garden for all the senses

What is more pleasant on a sunny than spending a few moments to relax in the garden.

Types and varieties of red or yellow dogwood, like fire in winter!

Dogwood trees illuminate the garden in winter with their colorful red and yellow bark and elegant, wispy shoots that wrap themselves in diamond-like sheathes of frost. The stylish abstract bearing adds a modern touch to the garden.