Thursday, June 23, 2011
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Things you need at the Garden Center
When you have ventured to the garden center to purchase a tree or shrub their are several factors to think about. Below is a list of factors and the materials in which are needed to make it all to come together.
Materials to maximize ultimate tree health and growth.
5. After the tree has been planted according to the planting diagrams and suggestion I have given you below on this site, your next step will be to mulch the planting area around the drip line of the tree or shrub with a cedar mulch. This will help to retain the moisture and insulate the roots over the cold winter. What the Cedar mulch also does is to attract the warm sun in the spring to quickly activate the roots into action, helping the tree or shrub bounce back after winter.
6. Water Water and more Water for the first 2 weeks after planting to ensure root growth and establishment. I recommend a watering can or hose not a sprinkler because then you can manually direct the water right at the roots.
ENJOY YOUR TREE
Materials to maximize ultimate tree health and growth.
- Location: Think about where the tree you purchase will be planted, will it be planted in the sun, shade or a mixture of both. Will the tree be planted in a low elevation on your property or will be up on a higher area? this will help determine if you need a specimen that requires allot of moisture or if would prefer a dryer area. Think about the size of the area the tree or shrub will be planted and how large you would like the tree or shrub to maximize at. How long will you be staying at this particular property. All this will help you to select the tree or shrub. Now Select your tree or shrub
- Think about if you have good soil quality at your property or if you will need to amend your existing soil. In most cases to insure maximum health and growth of a freshly planted tree or shrub you will want to prepare a completely new soil bed in the area the tree or shrub will be planted. Select a high grade triple mix planting soil in which new plantings take kindly to. The amount of soil will depend on the size of hole you will dig or the size of specimen you will be planting.
- In most to all cases with a freshly planted tree or shrub you will want to add a water soluble starter fertilizer. This will help give the freshly planted tree or shrub a good kick start and get the roots going. It will help the roots bypass any planting stress that can occur in the early stages of planting.
- You may have to stake the tree if it is a larger specimen and is planted in an area susceptible to high winds. In some cases a tree planted in a high wind area can be uprooted and fall over in a storm.
5. After the tree has been planted according to the planting diagrams and suggestion I have given you below on this site, your next step will be to mulch the planting area around the drip line of the tree or shrub with a cedar mulch. This will help to retain the moisture and insulate the roots over the cold winter. What the Cedar mulch also does is to attract the warm sun in the spring to quickly activate the roots into action, helping the tree or shrub bounce back after winter.
6. Water Water and more Water for the first 2 weeks after planting to ensure root growth and establishment. I recommend a watering can or hose not a sprinkler because then you can manually direct the water right at the roots.
ENJOY YOUR TREE
Saturday, January 1, 2011
ONTARIO CLIMATE ZONE MAP
When selecting and purchasing plants ,trees, and shrubs you need to always consider the appropriate climate zone in which the plant or tree veriety should be planted. Please keep in mind that specimens can be planted in a zone 1 higher or 1 lower than your zone location. eg. If you are in a zone 5 like Toronto than you can go with a zone 4 or 6 specimen if you alter the care and yard location to match the climate environment of the correct zone indicated. Appropriate zones are generally indicated on the tag attached to the tree or shrub you are purchasing.
ZONE MAP OF ONTARIO
Native Trees and Shrubs to Ontario
The distinction of Native and Non-native species is sometimes not clearcut. For the purposes of this website various sources are used. Generally speaking, a species is considered to be non-native if it did not occur in the region covered by this website prior to the arrival of Europeans. But there may be exceptions.
Non-native species are also often referred to as "Alien" species.
The distinction between Native and Non-native species is important because many Non-native species are invasive and alter the ecosystem of an area. They may crowd out native plants. Animals, not being familiar with the foreign plants, frequently will not use them for food or even shelter. So the impact of the Non-native species extends well past their simple presence in an area.
- Balsam Fir
- Silver (white) Fir
- Fraser Fir
- Rocky Mountain Fir
- Manitoba Maple
- Black Maple
- Striped Maple
- Red Maple
- Silver Maple
- Sugar Maple
- Mountain Maple
- Ohio Buckeye
- Yellow Buckeye
- Speckled (Hazel) Alder
- Shadblow (Downy) Serviceberry
- Allegany Serviceberry
- Devil's Walking Stick
- Common Paw Paw
- Sweet Birch
- Yellow Birch
- River Birch
- Gray Birch
- American Hornbeam (Blue Beech)
- Bitternut Hickory
- Pignut Hickory
- Northern Pecan
- Shagbark Hickory
- Mockernut hickory
- American chestnut
- Northern Catalpa
- Common Hackberry
- Eastern Redbud
- Hinoki False Cypress
- Fringe Tree
- Yellowwood
- Pagoda Dogwood
- Flowering Dogwood
- Corkspur Hawthorn
- Downy Hawthorn
- Washington Hawthorn
- Frosted Hawthorn
- Common Persimmon
- Eastern Wahoo
- American Beech
- White Ash
- Black Ash
- Green Ash
- Blue Ash
- Common Honeylocust
- Kentucky Coffee Tree
- Carolina Silverbell
- Common Witchhazel
- Butternut
- Black Walnut
- Rocky Mountain Juniper
- Eastern Red Cedar
- Eastern Larch
- American Sweetgum
- Tulip Tree
- Osage-Orange
- Cucumber Tree Magnolia
- Prairie Crabapple
- Red Mulberry
- Black Tupelo
- Ironwood
- Sourwood
- White Spruce
- Dwarf Alberta Spruce
- Black Hills White Spruce
- Black Spruce
- Colorado Spruce
- Colorado Blue Spruce
- Jack Pine
- Lumber Pine
- Ponderosa Pine
- Red Pine
- Eastern White Pine
- American Plane Tree
- Balsam Poplar
- Eastern Poplar
- Bigtooth Aspen
- Trembling Aspen
- American Plum
- Pin Cherry
- Black Cherry
- Chokecherrry
- Common Hop Tree
- White Oak
- Swamp Oak
- Northern Red Oak
- Scarlet Oak
- Shingle Oak
- Bur Oak
- Pin Oak
- Red Oak
- Rosebay Rhododendron
- Smooth Sumac
- Staghorn Sumac
- Black Locust
- Pussy Willow
- Black Willow
- Sassafras
- American Mountain Ash
- Showy Mountain Ash
- Common Bald Cypress
- Eastern White Cedar
- American Linden (basswood)
- Canadian Hemlock
- American Elm
- Nannyberry
- Common Prickly Ash
Native Shrubs
- Bottlebush Buckeye
- Lead Plant
- Indigo Bush
- Bog Rosemary
- Bearberry
- Red Chokeberry
- Black Chokeberry
- Purple Chokeberry
- Sweet Shrub
- New Jersey Tea
- Buttonbush
- Summers Weet
- Sweet Fern
- Silky Dogwood
- Bunchberry
- Gray Dogwood
- Red Osier Dogwood
- Dwarf Bush Honeysuckle
- Leatherwood
- Silverberry
- Running Euonymus
- Dwarf Gothergilla
- Fothergilla
- Wintergreen
- Spring Witchhazel
- Smooth Hydrangea
- Oakleaf Hydrangea
- Saint John's Wort
- Shruby Saint John's Wort
- Inkberry
- Winterberry
- Virginia Sweet Spire
- Common Juniper
- Creeping Juniper
- Lambkill Kalmia
- Mountain Laurel
- Bog Kalmia
- Labrador Tea
- Spicebush
- Fly Honeysuckle
- Oregon Grape Holly
- Creeping Oregon Grape Holly
- Bayberry
- Canby Paxistima
- Common Ninebark
- Bristlecone Pine
- Bush Cinquefoil
- Catawba Rhododendron
- Fragrant Sumac
- American Black Currant
- Golden Currant
- Rose Acacia
- Prickly Rose
- Carolina Pasture Rose
- Prairie Rose
- Virginia Rose
- Mountain Rose
- Allegheny Raspberry
- Blackcap Raspberry
- Flowering Raspberry
- Prairie Willow
- American Elder
- Scarlet Elder
- Silver Buffaloberry
- Russet Buffaloberry
- Meadowsweet
- Hard Tack (Steeple Bush)
- American Bladdeernut
- Snowberry
- Coralberry
- Canadian Yew
- Lowbush Blueberry
- Highbush Blueberry
- American Cranberry
- Mapleleaf Viburnum
- Hobblebush
- Witherod
- Arrowood
- Rafinesque Viburnum
- American Highbush Cranberry
- Adam's Needle
Native Vines
- Dutchmans Pipe
- Crossvine
- Trumpet (Hummingbird) Vine
- American Bittersweet
- Virgins Bower
- Lumber Honeysuckle
- Common Moonseed
- Virginia Creeper
- Common Greenbrier
- Riverbank Grape
Native Perennials for Sunny Locations
Native Plants for Shade Locations
Native Grasses
Native plants, trees, perennials and grasses can be found growing naturally in suitable environments like dry grasslands, shady woods, near ponds and streams and in wet areas in North America. When deciding to add native plants to your landscape design, consider the conditions they need to survive. | |
SALT TOLERANT TREES FOR BOULEVARD OR NEXT TO DRIVEWAY
SALT TOLERANT Trees and Shrubs
The following Trees and Shrubs are selected from Landscape Ontario’s Survival Guide for Professionals.
Trees and Shrubs with High Salt Tolerance Green Ash | Fraxinus americana |
Shademaster Locust | Gelditsia triacanthos |
Larch | Larix species |
Colorado Spruce | Picea pungens |
Austrian Pine | Pinus nigra |
Ornamental Pears | Pyrus species |
Large Toothed Aspen | Populus grandidentata |
Red Oak | Quercus rubra |
Siberian Pea | Caragana arborescens |
Junipers | Juniperus species |
Honeysuckle | Lonicera species |
Bridlewreath Spirea | Spiraea x Vanhouttei |
Snowberry | Symphoricarpus species |
Lilacs | Syringa species |
Trees and Shrubs with Moderate Salt Tolerance Silver Maple | Acer Saccharinum |
Paper Birch | Betula papyrifera |
Catalpa | Catalpa species |
Norway Spruce | Picea abies |
Basswood | Tilia americana |
Shrub Maple | Acer ginnala |
Boxwood | Buxus microphylla |
Forsythia | Forsythia x intermedia |
Mockorange | Philadelphus species |
Firethorn | Pyracantha species |
Cranberry Viburnum | Viburnum trilobum |
Armed with this information we should now be able to better design the gardens near our driveways, streets and public areas where salting is necessary to enable public access in our far to long winters.
Trees tolerant of saline soils or salt spray Common name | Latin name | Deciduous/Evergreen | Type of salt tolerance | |
Hedge maple | Acer campestre | D | Salt spray | |
Sycamore maple | Acer pseudoplatanus | D | Salt spray | |
Horsechestnut | Aesculus hippocastanum | D | Salt spray | |
Red buckeye | Aesculus pavia | D | Saline soils | |
Paper birch | Betula papyrifera | D | Salt spray | |
Gray birch | Betula populifolia | D | Salt spray | |
Catalpa | Catalpa speciosa | D | Salt spray | |
Hackberry | Celtis laevigata | D | Salt spray | |
White fringetree | Chionanthus virginicus | D | Saline soils | |
Lavalle hawthorne | Crataegus x lavallei | D | Salt spray | |
Japanese cedar | Cryptomeria japonica | E | Salt spray | |
Common persimmon | Diospyros virginiana | D | Saline soils, salt spray | |
White ash | Fraxinus americana | D | Saline soils, salt spray | |
European ash | Fraxinus excelsior | D | Salt spray | |
Green ash | Fraxinus | D | Salt spray |
pennsylvanica |
Ginkgo | Ginkgo biloba | D | Salt spray | |
Honeylocust | Gleditsia triacanthos | D | Saline soils, salt spray | |
Kentucky coffeetree | Gymnocladus dioicus | D | Salt spray | |
American holly | Ilex opaca | E | Salt spray | |
Black walnut | Juglans nigra | D | Saline soils, salt spray | |
Eastern red cedar | Juniperus virginiana | E | Saline soils, salt spray | |
Goldenraintree | Koelreuteria paniculata | D | Saline soils, salt spray | |
Common larch | Larix decidua | D | Salt spray | |
Sweetgum | Liquidambar styraciflua | D | Salt spray | |
Southern magnolia1 | Magnolia grandiflora | E | Saline soils, salt spray | |
Sweetbay magnolia | Magnolia virginiana | E | Saline soils | |
Black gum | Nyssa sylvatica | D | Salt spray | |
Colorado spruce2 | Picea pungens | E | Salt spray | |
Austrian pine | Pinus nigra | E | Salt spray | |
Longleaf pine1 | Pinus palustris | E | Salt spray | |
Japanese black pine | Pinus thunbergiana | E | Saline soils, salt spray | |
White poplar | Populus alba | D | Saline soils, salt spray | |
Carolina cherrylaurel1 | Prunus caroliniana | D | Saline soils | |
Black cherry | Prunus serotina | D | Salt spray | |
White oak | Quercus alba | D | Saline soils | |
Bur oak | Quercus macrocarpa | D | Saline soils, salt spray | |
Pin oak | Quercus palustris | D | Saline soils | |
Willow oak | Quercus phellos | D | Salt spray |
English oak | Quercus robur | D | Salt spray | |
Red oak2 | Quercus rubra | D | Saline soils | |
Live oak1 | Quercus virginiana | E | Saline soils, salt spray | |
Black locust | Robinia pseudoacacia | D | Saline soils, salt spray | |
Weeping willow | Salix alba | D | Salt spray | |
Corkscrew willow | Salix matsudana | D | Salt spray | |
Japanese pagodatree | Sophora japonica | D | Salt spray | |
Japanese tree lilac | Syringa reticulata | D | Saline soil, salt spray | |
Baldcypress | Taxodium distichum | D | Saline soils, salt spray | |
Chastetree1 | Vitex angus-castus | D | Saline soils |
A selective list of salt tolerant plants is as follows: Deciduous Shrubs: | Deciduous Trees: |
Amelanchier spp. (Serviceberry)(Saskatoon) | Acer campestre (Hedge Maple) |
Acer pseudoplatanus (Sycamore Maple) |
Aronia spp. (Chokeberry) | Aesculus hippocastanum (Common Horsechestnut) |
Caragana arborescens (Siberian Pea Shrub) | Ailanthus altissima (Tree-of-Heaven) |
Cytisus spp. (Broom) | Betula (Birch) |
Hamamelis spp. (Witch Hazel) | Elaeagnus angustifolia (Russian Olive) |
Hibiscus syriacus and cvs. (Rose of Sharon) | |
Hippophae rhamnoides (Sea Buckthorn) | Fraxinus americana (White Ash and cvs.) |
Hydrangea spp.and cvs. (Hydrangea) | Fraxinus excelsior (European Ash) |
Hypericum (most) (St. John's Wort) | Fraxinus pennsylvanica (Green Ash) |
Ilex verticillata (Winterberry) | Ginkgo biloba (Maidenhair Tree) |
Lonicera tatarica 'Zabelli' (Zabel's Honeysuckle) | Gleditsia triacanthos inermis and cvs. (Honey Locust) |
Lonicera xylosteum (European Fly Honeysuckle) | Gymnocladus dioica (Kentucky Coffee Tree) |
Magnolia (most) |
Myrica pennsylvanica (Northern Bayberry) | Nyssa sylvatica (Blackgum) |
Philadelphus spp. and cvs. (Mockorange) | Populus spp. (Poplar) |
Potentilla (Cinquefoil) | Prunus x cistena (Sand Cherry) |
Rhamnus frangula (Glossy Buckthorn) | Quercus alba (White Oak) |
Rhodotypos scandens (Black Jetbead) | |
Rhus (Sumac) | Quercus rubra (Red Oak) |
Ribes alpinum (Alpine Currant) | Robinia pseudoacacia (Black Locust) |
Salix and cvs. (Willow) |
Rosa (shrub types) (Shrubby Roses, e.g.. Rosa rugosa) | Sophora japonica (Japanese Pagoda Tree) |
Sorbus (Mountain Ash) |
Shepherdia argentea (Silver Buffalo Berry) |
Symphoricarpos albus (Snowberry) | Conifers: |
Tamarix ramosissima (Fivestamen Tamarisk) | Larix decidua (European Larch) |
Viburnum dentatum (Arrowwood) | Larix kaempferi (Japanese Larch) |
Picea glauca (White Spruce) |
Broadleaf Evergreens: | Picea glauca (Colorado Blue pungens Spruce) |
Cotoneaster divaricata (Spreading Cotoneaster) | Pinus banksiana (Jack Pine) |
Yucca filamentosa (Adam's Needle) | Pinus mugho mughus (Mountain Pine) |
Pinus nigra (Austrian Pine) |
Groundcovers: | Pinus parviflora (Japanese White Pine) |
Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (Bearberry) | Pinus ponderosa (Ponderosa Pine) |
Erica spp. (Spring Heath) | Pinus thunbergii (Japanese Black Pine) |
Iberis sempervirens (Edging Candytuft) | Platycladus orientalis (Oriental Arborvitae) |
Potentilla (Shrubby Cinquefoil) | Taxodium distichum (Bald Cypress) |
Symphoricarpos albus (Snowberry) | |
Vaccinum and cvs. (Blueberry/Cranberry) |
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