What is the best tree to plant to soak up water?
The most common water-loving trees people use for soggy gardens or wet sites are weeping willows and river birches, or alder and poplar varieties. These genera of trees prefer wet, moist, and damp conditions and offer you plenty of landscaping choices for various garden styles, from architectural to cottage. Birches are a good choice for wet sites, as well as our Sweet Gum Trees or Liquidambar. If you want more moderately sized hedging for wet sites, we have an excellent selection of Dogwoods and other suitable native hedging plants such as Hawthorn, Blackthorn, Alder Buckthorn, Elder, Guelder Rose and Hornbeam.
What is the toughest evergreen?
Let’s sort out these plants, because junipers are undoubtedly among the toughest and most reliable of evergreens, able to thrive in both cold and heat, and in poor soil too, with few pests or problems. Even deer usually leave them alone. Juniper is one of the best low-maintenance evergreen shrubs, occurring in a range of shapes and sizes. Gin Fizz® has an attractive conical shape, producing attractive blue-green berries against a backdrop of aromatic soft green foliage. Use this conifer as screening, in borders or massed in the landscape.
What’s the best time to plant evergreens?
August through early October is a prime time for root growth if soil is not too dry, so this is a fine time to plant many trees including conifers such as spruce (Picea) and pine (Pinus)given that you keep up with watering until adequate rains fall. Evergreens in general are best planted in late summer. October is an ideal time for moving and planting trees, shrubs and climbers, as well as for hedge planting. Bare-root – Deciduous trees and shrubs, as well as root-wrapped evergreens, become available towards the end of the month, so you could think ahead and prepare the ground for them now.