Tag: Living Christmas Trees
Planting Your Christmas Tree After the Holidays
12/01/2021 Ken Davisby Ken Lain, the mountain gardener How do you keep a Christmas tree alive outside in the winter? Can you put a cut Christmas tree in soil? Buying a Potted Christmas Tree to Plant. When should you plant your Christmas…
Read MoreHOW TO GROW BLUE SPRUCE
12/09/2020 Ken Davisby Ken Lain, the mountain gardener Blue Spruce (Picea pungens) is a trendy evergreen conifer tree with a handsome, naturally pyramidal form with rigid tiered branches covered with stiff gray-blue needles. Spruce trees make a perfect evergreen windbreak or tall…
Read MorePlanting Your Christmas Tree in the Gardens
12/08/2020 Ken Davisby Ken Lain, the mountain gardener An evergreen tree with a starring role in the mountains of Arizona is gaining nationwide popularity. The ‘Single Blue Pinyon Pine’ is a local variety that gives a bold appearance to a rustic tree.…
Read MoreTo Grow Trees After their Holiday Duties
11/26/2019 Ken Davisby Ken Lain, the mountain gardener The practice of using living trees over fresh-cut trees to decorate the holidays continues to increase in popularity. Over half of Watters’ local Christmas Tree sales are for living trees that will be planted…
Read MoreLandscape Evergreens Out Sell Cut Trees
12/09/2015 Ken Davisby Ken Lain, the mountain gardener My achey-breaky-back! Everything holiday-ish arrived this week: cut Christmas trees, poinsettias, landscape evergreens, even miniature fairy gardens arrived at the garden center, and my back is feeling it. (I may be exaggerating he amount…
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