Dear expert gardeners,
Thanks for your lovely show.
My backyard backs into ravine.
A tree is growing just outside the fence & branches are now coming into my property.
Few of the same tree are in a distance.
What is…
Hello, I have a lovely chokecherry tree. Unfortunately, it has created 10 or so small suckers throughout the garden bed. I have tried to remove them by tracing the long root systems and clipping the suckers to ground level. This…
We are looking to plant a flowering tree here at our condo complex in Scarborough, Ontario.. The site is partially over our underground garage roof with a depth of no more than 3 feet so roots must be more spreading…
We have a mixed privet and other plants in our hedge. Section near a black walnut tree in neighbour’s garden has died.
What should we replant?…
I’m looking for a planting to put in a 4 foot strip (widening at a point to five feet) along a western facing wall of a home. There is four feet between the wall and the side property line to…
We are very lucky to have a 75′ rather steep hill in our back yard, part of a small ridge in East Toronto. East facing with many mature trees, it’s already a place where lots of birds and other critters…
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I am looking to plant some columnar privacy trees or cedars near a swale in a new subdivision. Swale is not major, has some standing water from time to time and is along back of property line. Soil is…
Hello, I purchased 2 Viburnum lentago (Nannyberry) plants at the BANPS plant sale this weekend. Both plants appear to be water sprouts, each has two shoots about 120cm long and covered in leaves. Neither plant has branches. If I prune…
I have three serviceberries planted together in a row and one of them isn’t doing as well as the other two. They were all planted at the same time a few years ago. Wondering if you would have any ideas…
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We had a boxwood hedge that died last year. I am wondering what alternative short, slow growing bush can be used for a step-over hedge. I was looking for Japanese holly but have not seen it anywhere.
Thanks…
