Planting Trees Garden Nursery Landscaping Guide
Planting Trees Helps Improve The Landscape
By Suzzie T Franklin
Trees add beauty and shade to any location and they are constantly
changing. From blossoms in the spring to green leaves in the summer
to gorgeous colors in the fall, trees mark each season as they
enhance the beauty of world. They make life more enjoyable by
providing a peaceful, pleasurable and relaxing atmosphere.
There are many benefits of planting trees. Trees help control
erosion and maintain sustainable soils. They keep soil in place
with their roots, deflect driving rains with their canopies, provide
homes for countless birds and small animals, and contribute vital
nutrients to the soil. Trees are vital to sustaining and improving
the ecosystem of the Earth.
The World’s Oldest Living Tree
Trees are symbols of immortality, as they live many, many years.
Pando, a Quaking Aspen located in Utah, is considered the world’s
oldest living tree. It is estimated that Pando is over 80,000
years old.
Pando is a clonal colony of one male Quaking Aspen and the root
system covers over a hundred acres, and is estimated to weigh
in excess of sixty-five hundred tons, which makes it the heaviest
known living organism in the world.
Kingdom of the Trees
Built in the mid-12th century in southern Cambodia, Ta Prohm
Temple is the home to a wonderful forest called the Kingdom of
the Trees. It is a mystical jungle that is a beautiful memorial
to the king’s mother.
Since its inception, it remains virtually untouched except for
the clearing of a pathway for visitors. The temple of Ta Prohm
is surrounded by a dense jungle, and is made up of banyan, kapok
and fig trees. It is forests like this, planted hundreds of years
ago, that make you aware of how powerful the simple act of planting
trees can be.
Trees have many economic and aesthetic aspects beyond their role
in producing oxygen. Trees filter water, offer shelter, clean
pollutants from the air, help moderate the climate, prevent soil
erosion and provide habitat for wildlife. As a society, we rely
on trees for building materials, paper products, medicine, food
and fuel. As a planter and grower of trees, you are helping to
sustain the Earth’s ecosystem.
Trees Can Improve The Landscape By Softening The Harsh Outlines
Of Buildings
Throughout the world, trees are used in landscaping to soften
the harsh outlines of buildings, they create community green spaces
and provide privacy, they are used as a screen for views that
are unsightly and they keep down noise pollution.
Trees planted strategically around homes can decrease cooling
costs in summer and provide a windbreaker against the cold winds
of winter, thus planting trees can cut energy consumption. Becoming
a tree grower, even in a small space, can create a more harmonious
and balanced existence. It’s tree planting time! Go to your local
growing company and pick up planting guides today.
About the Author:
Suzzie T Franklin has written a number of articles on gardening
and landscaping including
Cherry Blossom,
Lady Slipper Flower,
Bamboo Plants,
Zen Garden,
Wire Topiary Frames,
Flower Seeds,
Gardening Vegetable, Container
Gardens.
Keep a lookout for more of her articles on this website.
Little Known Seeds Facts....
What are seeds?
Seeds are the way that plants reproduce.
The seed is the end of the fertilization process between gymnosperm
and angiosperm plants. Plants need to produce a seed in order
to propagate. The process is long and complicated with some plants.
In fact in some plants, outside help is needed for the reproduction
process to happen.
A good example is when a bee goes from
one flower to the next looking for nectar. In the process of gathering
the nectar, the bee gets pollen on its body. The bee then goes
to the next flower, the pollen fertilizes the other flower and
thus it produces a seed. Even bigger animals can track pollen
to other plants.
It is a wonderful cycle that has existed
as long as plants have been on this planet. So even during the
spring when your allergies act up, you can think of your watery
eyes and sneezing as part of the circle of life. If it were not
for all that pollen, plants would not be able to reproduce.
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