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Choosing and Growing Trees

Trees bring lasting beauty and value to the landscape. They can also be the longest to mature and cost a significant amount of the landscaping budget. Making wise choices saves many mistakes.

Trees are also a very important part of the environment. They provide food for wildlife and people.

There is something soul satisfying about trees, in a ways few other plants can match, so they inspire some musings and inspired thoughts, as well.

1910 garden plan

27.08.18 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

3 Tips For Landscaping Successfully With Ornamental Trees

Landscape Design Know-How + Landscape Trees

What are Ornamental Trees? These trees are usually small with special features like interesting bark, showy flowers, or eye-catching foliage. An ornamental also has a pleasing shape and fits easily into modern yards. This may seem like a tall order of outstanding characteristics, but the “ornamental” part of the description means that the trees are selected…

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oak leaves

03.10.16 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Is It Fall Already?

autumn + Garden Stories and Memories + Landscape Trees

Yesterday’s winds, today’s rain, and the smell that has been on the air tells me so. The asters blooming, the store displays burgeoning with mums (I bought two huge ones at Sam’s Club) also tell the undeniable story that summer has past. I still have tomatoes ripening on the vine, and they should continue to…

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apple on a branch

20.09.16 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Homesteader Heirloom Apples and Real Cider

Food + Landscape Trees + recipes

The Renaissance of Heirloom Apples Traditionally, an old fashioned fall treat has been the availability of aromatic autumn apples and the rich complex flavor of pressed cider. Although grocery stores attempt to carry “cider” in pasteurized containers all year, the taste is insipid in comparison to the special flavor that blended heirloom varieties give to…

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Chinese dogwood tree

08.01.16 | Ilona Erwin | 2 Comments

Ornamental Garden Trees For A Small Yard

Landscape Design Know-How + Landscape Trees

A selection of some of the best small garden trees to give your place flower and foliage. There are so many ways to use these to create interest and year round beauty in your landscape.

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31.01.12 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

2012 Urban Tree of the Year

2012 + Landscape Trees

Accolade is one of many elms on Arthur Lee Jacobsen’s page. Ever since the demise of the American Elm tree due to the deadly combination of Dutch Elm disease and the beetle that spread it, arborists, landscapers, and gardeners alike have looked for and hoped that a replacement might be found. Once upon a time…

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24.02.11 | Ilona Erwin | 1 Comment

Tree Notes

Garden blogs + Landscape Trees

I think you ought to visit Tree Notes blog, and perhaps put it in your bookmarks. Yes, that would be a good thing to do. Genevieve majors in trees, and writes posts full of delicious notes on all sorts of trees along with the usual cultivation information. I always find myself engaged in her articles….

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Crop rotation illustration

15.04.10 | Ilona Erwin | 4 Comments

Springtime Garden Tips

garden chores + gardening tips + Landscape Trees + Vegetable garden

Planting New Trees and Shrubs Earlier in the season my son-in-law asked me about planting a new arborvitae. He lives in Georgia, and I had seen his homesite for a screen he wanted in his back yard during last year’s visit. Arborvitae was a fine choice for what he wanted and where the plant would…

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21.10.09 | Ilona Erwin | 4 Comments

Trees I Grow

garden chores + Landscape Trees

[originally posted 10/19/07] When I moved to my place here in the country, there were precious few trees on the property. Back in the seventies the farmers had determinedly cleared the land for more production. Obscene production I call it, but anyway… I decided first off to plant more trees. What I didn’t know was…

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14.09.09 | Ilona Erwin | No Comments

Tree news

gardening tips + Landscape Trees

Today is the day my trees are getting trimmed. The men with the heavy equipment have been at work for the last hour or so. I requested for the mulch from the branches to be dumped in an area where I can utilize it for “under” mulch next year. And in researching something I came…

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02.09.09 | Ilona Erwin | 3 Comments

State of the Garden September

2009 + Landscape Trees + September + Vegetable garden

Didn’t I just give you all an update? Well, I walked you through, but there are other elements to what is happening here. Like trimming and pruning old big trees. I didn’t tell you about that, did I? Coming to this garden most of the great old trees were gone. This area is known for…

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I was a garden blog pioneer, and began writing on this blog in 2003. Before that I had begun a garden website that has been at its own domain since 2006, Ilona's Garden.

I still love writing, gardening, and art after all these years, although travel and grandchildren have become a big part of my life, now.

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