Growing Freeman Maple trees from seedlings

Hello, this year our freeman maples produced incredible number of seeds. Surprisingly many rooted and produced seedlings in our terrace pots. I’ve transplanted about 50 into 6” deep planters. My questions: 1) should they be in deeper pots? 2) when…

Birch tree losing top leaves

The top of my birch tree is having problems. Is this a symptom of birch tree borer? I am watering it every other day when it’s hot. Should I feed it also? Many thanks.…

Maple Tree Not Doing Well

We moved into our house a year ago and the backyard had a maple tree planted there. This is the first time were paying attention to it and it doesn’t appear to be healthy. Leaves are dropping, it had a…

European Beech Spacing

Hi, I have a 30′ span and I’ve planted European beech about 4-5′ apart. They’re about 9-10′ tall already with root balls. Is this spacing sufficient enough for hedging? I don’t imagine it’ll be a dense hedge, but do you…

Planting a chokecherry

We have a plant but are not ready to put it in its final location. How do we keep it alive until we are ready? Temporary hole? Keep in sun or shade?…

IS THIS A WALLNUT TREE

I have this small tree that started growing in my garden and I was wondering if I should keep it or remove it; apparently they become very big. If it is a wallnut, what kind is it? I am not…

Rooting beech tree

I have had to take down a 150 year old beech tree…I am very eager to root it. I have saved some branches and hope you can assist…I also have some seeds from last fall which I tried to root…

Beech tree infection

I have tried insecticidal soap to kill these bugs on my beech tree but it is not helping. I have a beech tree that has a lot of these bugs. Is there a way of removing them or are they…