What's Coming Up 171: Flat-top fir, protect maple, photo quiz, popcorn plant, peat

Deformed fir and damaged maple catch the eye

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Flat top fir is fit to mend: Starts out with borers, many boring problems...

Another top lost: Roadside spruce fits the pattern

Yule protection for upfront maple

Puzzle time: Close focus, muddy fingered stumpers

Burly kind of scrabbling

Mentors: Who we want to be when we grow up

Popcorn plants fall flat in greenhouse

So many choices: Magnolia mania continues

Do you have the courage to prune a precious dwarf?

Assessing a plant's contributions

Planning to use the usual, unusually

Designing people into the landscape

 45mph creepy weepies

thumbs up to peat alternatives, down to squirrels

Weeping Alaska falsecypress (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis 'Pendula') certainly qualifies as a weepy tree, yet its sad state hasn't stopped it from becoming very popular throughout the U.S.

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