Xmas Tree Buying time is here and here are a few ideas to extend the life of your Xmas tree!
Christmas Tree Tips
Category: Evergreen Trees
Evergreen Trees Pictures of a type of tree that keep their leaves all year round
Cedar Hedge
Nicely trimmed white cedar trees can create a privacy hedge or natural screen in landscape design.
Got a Neighbor retired and nosy?
Best hire a company to get a hedge job done in a day fast … move on to more important family and business events!
Alberta Spruce Trees
Alberta Spruce Tree
There are many types of spruce trees, but the Alberta Spruce is an extremely slow growing spruce tree.
The Alberta Spruce tree a top pick for tight landscaping areas and can be used for featuring walkways.
Not a gardener?
Hire out a tree landscape company to finalise your design and do all the buying and installation work
Tree Cutting
Tree Felling Fundamentals Tutorial
Demonstration on how to drop a tree eight different ways using different types of notches. Real live example on 140-150 feet high Fir Trees. Informative!
Types of Tree Saw Cuts and video’s time location:
The Humboldt- 1:26
Gapped Face- 7:23
Conventional Face Cut- 13:21
The Bore Cut- 19:27
The Sizwill- 24:57
Pulling one with a Rope- 29:17
Open Faced Notch- 35:32
Backcut First- 39:33
DYK: Removing a large stump can be the costly experience.
Xmas Tree Decor
Real Pine branches, cones and the aromatic smell of cedar leaves adds an attractive Christmas Décor to one’s fireplace.
Christmas Snowman Decoration
Cute little snowman set on an evergreen Japanese Hicks Yew .. Special décor touch for the Happy Holidays!
Potted Cedar Tree
Cedar trees planted in large pots is a fast way to dress up a large area of pavement or concrete and can be part of your landscape design.
Potted Evergreen Cedars trees are a fast and easy way to increase your home’s curb appeal with out committing yourself to a lot of digging!
P.S. Square planter is white plastic container about 2′ x 2′ x 20″ high (600x600x500mm) purchased at Lowes.ca
Trim Cedars
Best Cedar Tree trimming time is late Fall or early Spring !
A Cedar tree’s growth generally retains the latest shape created … but a new trimming can bring back the design shape you like best.
Cedar trees can be formed into many shapes. This is an easy DIY project!
When one is pruning cedars, some prefer to cut the bottom wider than the top to allow sunlight to the lower branches … more of a Christmas tree or cone shape. Cedars are flexible and as shown in the picture above as cedars are trimmed in more of a column shape.
Trimming cedar trees or hedge can be done most any time of the year. The best time is after spring’s 6-8 week cedar leaf growth period.
Cedar Pruning Caution: Start out slowly and trim a little at a time until your shape starts to develop. Cutting to deeply into the cedar you will run into the interior branches that have little or no foliage … then you end with a hole in you shape .. not so good!
Tools need are a sharp pair of hand shears for smaller trees … some smaller cedar hedges can be done with shears but with larger cedar hedges one needs an electric or gas shears.
If you have large and tall cedar hedges consider using an arborist as there is some danger and/or skill involved.
Advantages to regular annual pruning is that it keeps the cedar’s shape you want. Regular trimming maintains your cedar’s size and the garden area they take up.
Thinking Wood Bench?
Wood Bench with an amazing view!
If you got a view … “Bench it” .. and enjoy the scenery!
Bench view of Mount Rundle in Canada’s Banff National Park, Alberta. The Cree name was Waskahigan Watchi or house mountain because of it’s large size – Elevation: 2,948 m or 9725 feet high.
PS: More benches are needed in our Nations Parks
Evergreens at the Lake
Evergreen Trees keep their foliage leaves all year round.
On the opposite side are the Deciduous trees which loose their leaves in the cold season.
Pine Tree Row
Thought out planting plan for these Pine Trees. Plenty of spacing for growth now that they are established.
PS Just have to keep an eye on them to ensure trees grow straight, staked for several years a good idea.
Cedar Tree Privacy
During Winter one’s deciduous trees around your property loose their leaves, reminding us how close our neighbours are in the City.
Cedar trees can provide good evergreen blockage from your neighbor’s houses all year round.
What does a Blue Spruce look Like?
An example of a mature Blue Spruce tree is tall, appears cylindrical in shape and produces new bluish colored needles in the Spring.
Xmas Trees
Christmas trees for sale, wrapped and waiting to decorate your family home for Christmas.PS Right after Halloween and American Thanksgiving … Xmas is in the stores!!!
Xmas Trees for Sale
FOR SALE: Balsam Fir Christmas trees.
Balsam Fir, Nordmann fir, Noble fir and Fraser fir are popular Christmas trees because of their aromatic foliage and do not drop shed lots of needles when drying out.
Cedar
Cedars are an evergreen tree, retaining their leaves through out all seasons. Cedars do shed some leaves which brown and can be found at the base of the tree.
Spruce Trees
Mature Spruce trees planted to break up the landscape.
Spruce Trees
Evergreen Spruce Trees planted and spaced equally has been an good landscape choice.
These white spruce have grown up in very nice cone Christmas tree shape!
Cedar Tree Pond
Cedar trees love wet loamy soil … so not surprised to find a healthy cedar tree and cedar grove at this Crawford lake conversation area.
Cedar Trees
Cedars are evergreens and maintain their green leaves year round
Mature cedar tree showing it’s bark, tree limbs and green foliage.
End of a cedar with only the stump and old roots seen thru the water.
Cedar Hedge with Onion Tulips Garden
A “Wow Garden” in part has to do with contrast between plants and trees.
If you have mature cedar hedge, it creates a great dark green back drop for bright contrasting garden flowers as can be seen to the photo.
Don’t have 5-8 years to wait for cedar trees to grow, then possibly consider a wood fence.
Mountain Trees Photos Banff Alberta
Why go to Banff National Park Alberta Canada?
Banff Alberta summer tree photos have the four relaxing elements: mountains, trees, snow and water. We call this travel area of Alberta a “go back” … meaning one goes back to visit!
Moriane Lake – Must visit!
Lake Louise – Must visit and eat lunch or dinner at Fairmont Hotel!
Wood Entrance Sign
Example of a white painted wood Entrance sign. In the background grows an medium sized evergreen cedar hedge with black wrought iron fence. In photo a white paper birch tree can be seen on the right!
Cedar Trees
Tall Cedar Trees planted to create a privacy type hedge with contrasting white picket fence.