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Healthy Trees and Landscapes Help Save Energy. When trees are planted in the right location and receive periodic maintenance, they provide the greatest energy saving benefits. Gretchen Pettis discusses how selecting a site containing healthy soil, sufficient …
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Selecting Diverse Trees for Sustainability of the Urban Environment
Maximize your heating and cooling energy savings with careful tree selection. In this video, Robert Polomski, recommends that deciding what tree to plant is often the most important …
Trees too close to your home can produce unwanted shade that will decrease sunlight, prevent ice from melting on pavements, and increase heating costs during the winter. To combat these issues, plant deciduous trees that lose their leaves and allow …
Trees produce a lot of pollen at certain times of year. However, some trees are “dioecious,” meaning they have either male or female reproductive parts, not both, like monoecious species. If you can find a dioecious tree that is a …
Effective windbreaks can be planted with either conifers, deciduous trees, or a mix of both. Conifer plantings do need not be as dense as plantings of deciduous trees and shrubs for the same effectiveness. Deciduous plantings should mimic a small …
Turfgrasses and native grasses are good options for planting over septic fields. You may also consider non-woody perennial plants. Trees and shrubs should not be planted on the septic field and should be placed far enough from the septic field …
Some trees, such as sweet gum, have an infamous reputation when it comes to the kind and amount of fruit they make. The best solution to this problem is to avoid this in the first place by selecting species or …
A weed is a plant out of place or not desired in the given context. By that definition, a tree can be a weed if it is planted in the wrong place, if it seeds on its own in an …
You should always avoid planting trees directly under power lines. Planting off to one side of the power line is preferable. Whenever you consider adding a new tree to your property, you should always evaluate the site for your new …
Native tree species with wide-spreading branches, small leaf size, and low centers of gravity, planted in groups, hold up better during storm events. Research has also indicated that slower-growing trees generally have stronger wood characteristics that are more hurricane-resistant than …
