Listen "Trees: Native Trees"
Episode Synopsis
A new month means a new topic on the Down the Garden Path podcast. Each week in August, we'll be talking all about deciduous trees and upright evergreens. On this week's episode, we're kicking off the month with a pseudo-follow-up to our discussion on nativars with a look at native trees. Tune into this week's podcast as we discuss native trees. Joanne and Matt share their top five picks for deciduous and upright evergreens and why each made it to the list: Matt's top five deciduous trees: Flowering Dogwood Hickory Oak Hackberry American Beech Joanne's top five deciduous trees: Red Oak Redbud Serviceberry Sugar Maple Pagoda Dogwood Matt's top five evergreen trees: Thuja occidentalis "Skybound" and "North Pole" White Pine Eastern Hemlock Jack Pine Blue Spruce Joanne's top five evergreen trees: Thuja occidentalis Hemlock White Pine White Spruce White Fir Tune into the Down The Garden Path podcast each week in August for our discussions on deciduous and upright evergreens. 10th: Japanese Maples 17th: Trees for Small Spaces 24th: Growing Trees Join us each week on Down The Garden Path, as professional landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss down-to-earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes. As the owner of Down2Earth Landscape Design, Joanne Shaw has been designing beautiful gardens for homeowners east of Toronto for over a decade. And Matthew Dressing is a horticulturist and landscape designer. He owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, Joanne and Matthew do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and helpful topics. Their goal is to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible.
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