Tree Root Invigoration

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The arboriculture company Bartlett’s Tree Experts was in Bush’s Pasture Park on Tuesday, May 10th, on several projects to help extend the life park’s trees. One of those projects was reinvigorating the root system around an historic flowering cherry tree. Root invigoration is a well-studied treatment that uses an air spade to blow soil away…

Bed 531 – Tree Peony Bed

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Bed 531 contains: Trees Pinus thunbergii ‘Kotobuki’ Shrubs & Subshrubs Berberis x ottawensis ‘Silver Miles Berberis thunbergii ‘Bagatelle Clethra alnifolia ‘September Beauty’ Deutzia gracilis ‘Nikko’ Deutzia scabra ‘Pride of Rochester’ Deutzia x hybrida ‘Magicien Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Snow Queen’  Paeonia ludlowii Paeonia – tree peony Picea abies ‘Little Globe’ Syringa vulgaris (Common Lilac) (moved from the…

Bed 529 – Toringo Crabapple Bed

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Bed 529 contains: Trees Chamaecyparis thyoides – Atlantic White Cedar Malus cv. – propagated from L&S Gaiety Hollow garden crabapple Malus seiboldii var. arborescens (Toringo Crabapple) Pices pungens ‘Iseli Foxtail’  (‘Foxtail’ Colorado Blue Spruce) Shrubs & Subshrubs Abelia x grandiflora (Glossy Abelia( Berberis x ottawensis ‘Silver Miles’ Berberis thunbergia ‘Admiration’ Berberis thunbergia ‘Sunjoy Neo’ Cotoneaster…

Wigelia with pink and white hose-shaped flowers are featured in several of the Bush's Pasture Park landscape beds

Bed 526 – Cedar Bed

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Landscape Bed 526 contains: Trees Cedrus sp. Cornus florida Oxydendron arboretum Pinus contorta Shrubs Abelia x grandiflora (Glossy Abelia) Camellia sasanqua ‘Mine-no-yuki’ (White Doves Winter Camellia) Hamamelis vernalis ‘Lombart’s Weeping‘ (Lombart’s Weeping Witch Hazel) Perennials Paeonia mlokosewitschii (Molly-the-Witch Peony)