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Sp546 Diseases Of Shade And Ornamental Trees, The University Of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service

Forestry, Trees, and Timber

Shade trees and small ornamental trees may be affected by plant diseases. Most are simply aesthetic problems and cause no long-term damage to the tree. Some diseases can seriously disfigure trees, while others are lethal.

Sp548 Fertilizing Landscape Trees, The University Of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service

Forestry, Trees, and Timber

Trees in residential and commercial landscape plantings are often fertilized to keep them healthy and attractive. Over-fertilization is common, causing excessive growth, especially on young nursery stock. Trees growing in lawn areas usually receive some nutrients when the turfgrass is fertilized. This is usually sufficient to maintain most trees in fertile soil. However, fertilization may be needed on altered soils where unconsolidated fill material has been added or the topsoil has been removed. Managed urban areas where fallen leaves are removed may also require a fertilization regime to enrich soil and replenish nutrients.

Fertilizer (plant nutrition) is no substitute for …

Sp549 Tree Topping Hurts Trees, The University Of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service

Forestry, Trees, and Timber

The practice of topping is so widespread that many people believe it is the proper way to prune trees. However, topping causes a variety of problems in trees that create future maintenance and growth dilemmas for homeowners.

Sp530 Urban Trees For Wildlife, The University Of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service

Forestry, Trees, and Timber

Viewing wildlife on your property is educational and fun. The kinds and numbers of wildlife that visit your backyard regularly depends on your location, size of area, variety of vegetation and amount of habitat development. Ideally, the habitat surrounding your home should be diverse with several species of trees, shrubs and flowering plants providing food and cover for wildlife throughout the year. The more diverse the vegetation, the greater variety of wildlife that can be attracted to the area.

Sp533 Trees For Poorly Drained Soils In The Landscape, The University Of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service

Forestry, Trees, and Timber

Preparation for planting is the key to success in establishing landscape plants. Preparation includes site analysis, design, plant selection and installation, as well as planning for follow-up care and maintenance. Site analysis and proper planting assure rapid plant establishment and healthy growth, provided environmental factors are favorable. However, proper planting involves much more than just digging a hole and sticking a plant in it. By taking a little extra time to plant properly, you can avoid future costly maintenance problems.

Sp532 Trees To Plant In Containers Or Wells, The University Of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service

Forestry, Trees, and Timber

Landscaping in a small area is challenging, but popular. Planting trees in small areas can limit root and shoot development. Proper selection of plant material for small areas is important to ensure a healthy environment for the plant. Sidewalks, patios, decks, entrances, courtyards and other small areas can be landscaped with the use of containers or wells with restricted soil area.

Sp535 Managing Trees And Turfgrasses, The University Of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service

Forestry, Trees, and Timber

Trees and turfgrasses commonly share the landscape, especially our lawns, cities, parks and roadsides. Both trees and turfgrasses require space, light, water, air, essential nutrients and an appropriate temperature for growth and survival. Turfgrass professionals often struggle to maintain quality turf under healthy trees. Tree managers often have problems sharing limited water resources with turfgrass. A tree canopy filters light and actively growing turfgrasses use substantial amounts of water. Trees and turfgrasses can be managed to get the best from both, when we understand their respective needs.

Sp534 Nutrient Deficiencies In Trees, The University Of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service

Forestry, Trees, and Timber

Our knowledge of the nutrition of ornamental trees is sparse. Most research has been conducted on juvenile plants or seedlings that are grown for a few weeks or months in greenhouses, growth chambers or even in nurseries where the controlled conditions are quite different than the environmental conditions encountered in nature and those found in larger, developing trees. Furthermore, most of the literature on nutrient deficiencies is from crop science or horticultural plants, not trees. The information available for trees is at best fragmentary. This fact sheet provides information on some of the nutritional deficiencies found in urban trees in …

Filberts - Nutty Trees, Shrubs And "Trubs", Dennis Hinkamp

All Archived Publications

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Amanoa, W. John Hayden

Biology Faculty Publications

Monoecious or dioecious trees or shrubs, latex absent. Leaves alternate, distichous, evergreen, simple, coriaceous, glabrous; stipules intrapetiolar, paired, or confluent across the leaf axil; margins entire; venation pinnate. Inflorescence axillary and/or terminal, of densely bracteate clusters (reduced cymules), in the axils of ordinary foliage leaves, in nonleafy pseudoterminal aggregates that revert to vegetative growth, or (in neotropical species) in the axils of alternate, reduced, crescentiform stipular bracts of determinate deciduous spiciform axes borne in groups of 1-several per branch apex; axes straight or sinuous; floral bracts minute, deltate, with abaxially pubescent midribs. Staminate flowers sessile or pedicellate, regular; perianth biseriate; …

Think Twice, Dig Once, Dennis Hinkamp

All Archived Publications

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