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There is something about fastigiate trees — you either love them or hate them. Or so it seems. Fastigiate means columnar, and I could not help but contemplate this arboreal form upon a recent ...

This time of year, I always try to touch on the topic of tree planting. So, I apologize in advance if I start to sound like a broken record. Fall is — hands down — the best time to plant trees in our ...

These days, you can grow apples without the hard work, responsibilities or space required by full-size apple trees. Cute and amazingly compact, columnar apple trees can grow up to 10 feet tall or ...

We all love trees with graceful spreading branches, but sometimes spreading branches just won’t fit. Fortunately, there’s a solution for tight spots: slim trees. “Some tree species naturally don’t get ...

Even small gardens can accommodate trees, but most times this is the last thing on gardeners’ minds when designing a small space. Yet factoring trees will add value to your property, add colour to a ...

They have been called the Barbie dolls of landscaping. Anything that grows tall and skinny. And there are oodles of them. The craze started about 25 years ago, when beech trees (Fagus) were hardly on ...

It seemed like a good idea at the time. Forty years ago, 120 Lombardy poplars were planted in Issaquah at Front Street North and Gilman Boulevard. Tall, columnar and fast-growing, the trees soon rose ...