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How to Plant a Tree - A Fun Guide
🌳 How to Plant a Tree - A Fun Guide
1️⃣ Dig a Big Hole
Start by digging a hole 2-3 times the size of the pot. Make sure it's deep enough to give your tree's roots room to grow. Remove any sandy dirt or rocks—replace them with rich, nutrient-packed soil to help your tree establish.
2️⃣ Place the Tree Just Right
Gently remove your tree from the pot and place it in the hole. The base of the tree (where the roots meet the trunk) should sit slightly above ground level (2-3"). Avoid covering the trunk with soil to allow for proper air circulation and to promote a healthy tree.
3️⃣ Mound the Soil
Add nutrient-rich soil around the roots, then toss in a handful of granulated fertilizer. With the leftover soil, build a little mound around the tree to form a "bagel" shape. This will help water stay around the roots and give your tree a strong start.
4️⃣ Add Mulch and Water
Spread mulch around the tree, but leave a small gap around the trunk. Water generously to settle the soil and give your tree a refreshing drink. Water by hand daily for the first couple of weeks or until you see new growth. After that, you can rely on sprinklers.
⭐️ With these simple steps, your tree will be off to a great start!
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📚Learn more:
How to plant a tree: care of mail-order plants and detailed planting instructions (PDF)
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1️⃣ Dig a Big Hole
Start by digging a hole 2-3 times the size of the pot. Make sure it's deep enough to give your tree's roots room to grow. Remove any sandy dirt or rocks—replace them with rich, nutrient-packed soil to help your tree establish.
2️⃣ Place the Tree Just Right
Gently remove your tree from the pot and place it in the hole. The base of the tree (where the roots meet the trunk) should sit slightly above ground level (2-3"). Avoid covering the trunk with soil to allow for proper air circulation and to promote a healthy tree.
3️⃣ Mound the Soil
Add nutrient-rich soil around the roots, then toss in a handful of granulated fertilizer. With the leftover soil, build a little mound around the tree to form a "bagel" shape. This will help water stay around the roots and give your tree a strong start.
4️⃣ Add Mulch and Water
Spread mulch around the tree, but leave a small gap around the trunk. Water generously to settle the soil and give your tree a refreshing drink. Water by hand daily for the first couple of weeks or until you see new growth. After that, you can rely on sprinklers.
⭐️ With these simple steps, your tree will be off to a great start!
🛒 Go plant shopping to excersize your green thumb and make our planet better
📚Learn more:
How to plant a tree: care of mail-order plants and detailed planting instructions (PDF)
#How_to #Trees #Discover
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Pre-hurricane season tips: how to protect your trees from winds
Spathodea campanulata - African Tulip Tree
Tabebuia caraiba - Yellow trumpet tree crooked with wind
🌪 Pre-hurricane season tips: how to protect your trees from winds
Some trees like mango have deep roots and handle wind well. Others - like our favorites Spathodea campanulata - African Tulip Tree or Tabebuia caraiba - Yellow trumpet tree (in the photos) - need extra care. You've likely seen crooked Tabebuias in South Florida or lost a bushy Tulip Tree to strong winds. Their wide crowns act like sails in a storm.
💨 To help your trees withstand wind damage:
💡 Some remove all leaves from plumeria before a hurricane - it works!
💡 We pruned our Tulip Tree and Ceiba - and they withstood Hurricane Milton while others fell
🛒 Grab your beautiful Tulip Tree and Tabebuia Tree today - support them early for strength and beauty later!
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Everyone loves these tulips growing on a tree
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Some trees like mango have deep roots and handle wind well. Others - like our favorites Spathodea campanulata - African Tulip Tree or Tabebuia caraiba - Yellow trumpet tree (in the photos) - need extra care. You've likely seen crooked Tabebuias in South Florida or lost a bushy Tulip Tree to strong winds. Their wide crowns act like sails in a storm.
💨 To help your trees withstand wind damage:
- ✅ Stake young trees with strong support - use a tripod-style setup (three bamboo sticks or boards secured around the tree for balance from all sides)
- ✅ Check and adjust supports every 6 months
- ✅ Trim long or rubbing branches - they break first
- ✅ Add extra support if a storm is coming (larger trees benefit from sturdy tripod-style bracing with boards)
- ✅ Lighten bushy growth, less sail = more survival
💡 Some remove all leaves from plumeria before a hurricane - it works!
💡 We pruned our Tulip Tree and Ceiba - and they withstood Hurricane Milton while others fell
- ✅ If a tree falls, stand it up ASAP and support it. Trim broken branches - they’ll remind you what needed pruning before, not after!
- ✅ Trees protected young, grow strong for life.
🛒 Grab your beautiful Tulip Tree and Tabebuia Tree today - support them early for strength and beauty later!
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Everyone loves these tulips growing on a tree
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What is the best plant for a carefree flower border
Dietes - African Iris
🔤 What is the best plant for a carefree flower border
Tough, drought-tolerant, flood-tolerant, and cold-tolerant, African Iris is perfect for virtually any type of landscape. It handles heat, sun, and even partial shade like a champ, and it's perfect for xeriscaping, borders, or mass plantings.
🛒 Get African Iris for a low-maintenance, always-blooming showstopper
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- How to add effortless elegance in your garden?
- What makes African Iris a must-have?
Dietes - African Iris - is a stunning, exotic beauty with delicate pale yellow flowers and bold maroon markings. It blooms in cycles throughout the warm months, giving your garden a fresh, elegant look time and time again. With its graceful, clumping sword-like foliage, it adds texture year-round. Plus, it thrives on neglect!
Tough, drought-tolerant, flood-tolerant, and cold-tolerant, African Iris is perfect for virtually any type of landscape. It handles heat, sun, and even partial shade like a champ, and it's perfect for xeriscaping, borders, or mass plantings.
🛒 Get African Iris for a low-maintenance, always-blooming showstopper
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How to have fruit year around: Everbearing Mulberry
Everbearing Mulberry
😎 How to have fruit year around: Everbearing Mulberry
📚 Mulberries from previous posts:
What are the best Mulberry varieties
Top 10 fast-fruiting trees: #7. Mulberry
How Mulberry fruit helps with diabetes
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🛍 Shop Mulberry varieties
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- 🍇Mulberry is very cold hardy and can grow in wide range of climate zones, from USDA 5 to 10. Everyone knows this sweet, tasty, juicy fruit.
- 🍇The fast growing tree or bush will produce right away, you will see fruit the next year after planting, or even the same season!
- 🍇Mulberry trees take poor soils and grow well in almost any conditions once established.
📚 Mulberries from previous posts:
What are the best Mulberry varieties
Top 10 fast-fruiting trees: #7. Mulberry
How Mulberry fruit helps with diabetes
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🛍 Shop Mulberry varieties
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How to grow Bird of Paradise
Strelitzia reginae - Bird of Paradise
How to grow Bird of Paradise
🛍 Plant Bird of Paradise
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- ⭐️ Strelitzia reginae - Bird of Paradise (more photos in earlier post) - is incredibly easy to grow, especially in warm climates!
- ⭐️ This tough, low-maintenance tropical thrives in full sun to partial shade, needs well-draining soil, and can handle drought once established.
- ⭐️ It's resilient, long-lived, and nearly indestructible - perfect for beginners!
- ⭐️ To keep it happy, just give it regular watering during growth and occasional fertilizer for best blooms.
- ⭐️ It loves warm temperatures (zones 9-11), but in cooler areas, grow it in a pot and bring it inside during winter.
- ⭐️ With minimal care, you'll get stunning, bird-like orange and blue flowers that bloom year after year. A showstopper, a survivor, and a statement plant all in one!
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