We have quite a few holly trees and shrubs in the Ozarks Arboretum – some are evergreen and keep their leaves over winter and some are deciduous. The deciduous holly, Ilex decidua, loses its leaves to show off its lovely …
Pruning Catawba grapes began yesterday. Catawba is a winter hardy variety that is pruned earlier in the dormant season than the more cold tender grape varieties. The average pruning weight for reference vines in the West Catawba vineyard was 2.55 …
Clint Elmore, an undergraduate horticulture student at Missouri State, presented “Two Vegetable Farmers’ First Look at Flowers” along with Rusty Lee, his summer internship mentor/employer, at our Cut Flower Workshop held at Mountain Grove yesterday. Dr. Clydette Alsup-Egbers was in …
Although most of the conifers, or cone bearing trees, are green all year round, there are some deciduous ones that put on a lovely fall show before they lose their needles before winter. Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostoboides), Bald Cypress (Taxodium …