Trees and shrubs are the backbones of your garden and landscape. They anchor landscape beds, provide focal points, fill foundation planting beds next to your house, provide shade, and bloom to welcome the start of spring, summer, and fall. Evergreen trees and shrubs provide a bit of green in the landscape during the winter when everything else is dormant and bare. Trees have just as many interesting features as flowers, and they’re an investment in your landscape that adds to your home’s value. A yard filled with flowers but without any trees or shrubs will look bare. In this section, you will learn how to select, plant, and care for these important plants.
Look up the definitions of these terms in the glossary before reading through this part, and you’ll have a leg up on your learning!
B&B
Bareroot
Bud
Deciduous plant
Dormant
Dripline
Dwarf
Evergreen
Hand pruners
Loppers
New wood
Pruning
Pruning saw
Shade
Shrub
Sucker
Tree canopy
Weeping