Caring For Your Trees
Plant a tree and nature will take care of the rest, right? Not necessarily. The trees in our yards, neighborhoods, and along our streets are a valuable asset, and require our help to keep them healthy. Proper tree care is based on science and research, not wives tales and myths. There is a “right way” and a “wrong way” to care for trees. Here are some tips you need to know to keep your trees healthy and working for you.
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Dealing with Drought - Keeping Trees Healthy
Midsummer in Pennsylvania is most often dry and hot. It is important to monitor rainfall in our landscapes and be able to recognize drought stress symptoms in our landscapes. In the short term it might mean scorched leaves, daily wilts, slowed growth, and early leaf drop. Long term droughts can become devastating with increased disease and insect susceptibility, loss of branches, root dieback, and ultimately death of the plant. Once we learn to recognize the symptoms of drought we can take action by irrigating our landscapes or working to prevent future drought through design, plant selection, mulching and more.
Drought in the Landscape - Penn State University Horticulture Newsletter written by Dr. James Sellmer
http://hortweb.cas.psu.edu/ohortex/news/2000/Feb_2000.html
Promoting Healthy Landscapes - a Penn State Horticulture Series that discusses drought and insect issues
http://hortweb.cas.psu.edu/pubs/lscpe_pubs.html
http://sepaipm.cas.psu.edu/factsheets/promote.html
Dealing with Drought in the Landscape - a very good publication from Delaware Cooperative Extension
http://ag.udel.edu/extension/horticulture/pdf/DroughtBrochure.pdf
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