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Low-growing, compact flowers serve as the unsung heroes of garden design, helping to define bed edges, and more. These are our favorites. Source: These 5 Small Flowers Can Instantly Elevate Your Garden Beds | Bob Vila

Learn how to effectively use bird netting on your fruit trees to prevent birds from stealing your harvests this summer and fall. Source: How to Use Bird Netting to Protect Your Fruit Trees

Dress up the area under your trees with plants that don’t need tons of sun. Source: The 13 Best Plants for Under Trees | Bob Vila

“September is not an ending; it is a golden hour for creativity and a quiet invitation to dream up what comes next,” says Zeeshan Haider, founder of Greenry Enthusiast Source: Gardening in September: The Biggest Challenges and How to Overcome Them | Bob Vila

Fall foliage in New England is easy to overthink. Where should I go? When will the leaves peak? Is the mountain better than the valley? Should I hike or drive around? And most importantly, what if I don’t plan for the right time? My advice is to treat fall foliage as an adventure. Source: New […]

Ideas come more quickly, my thoughts roam freely and I’m reminded I am not the main form of life on the planet… Source: Can trees boost our creativity? My daily forest walks have changed how I write | Culture | The Guardian

Giant sequoias are built to withstand ordinary fires, but recent extreme wildfires killed thousands of trees that had survived for centuries or even millennia. A new analysis of about 26,400 sequoias found that trees in areas treated with prescribed burns were nearly four times more likely to survive. Researchers estimate the controlled fires prevented about […]

Buffers made of aspen trees could help protect communities from worsening wildfires. Source: Aspen trees provide a natural buffer against wildfires, even as fire season intensifies, study shows | Live Science

Drought stress left trees struggling the last couple of years, and the results were rushed and muted canopies.

Pruning a tree can look straightforward: identify an unwanted branch and cut it off. In reality, where and how that cut is made can affect the tree for years. Penn State Extension explains the importance of pruning technique in “Making the Cut: It Matters When Pruning Trees.” “Different types of cuts can have a big […]