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When pruning leaves you bare: How to restore your backyard’s beauty with understory plants
4 months, 1 week ago

When pruning leaves you bare: How to restore your backyard’s beauty with understory plants

Hindustan Times  

After 20 years of growth, some of the ever-widening, 40-foot-tall Leyland cypress trees running along my backyard property line are blocking the walkway. Fall's a good time to plant an understory When the innermost needles of evergreen trees and shrubs drop, there’s usually no need to panic. Climbing nasturtiums, purple bell vine and black-eyed Susan vine will quickly fill the …

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India’s open ecosystems face an unusual threat: trees
5 months, 1 week ago

India’s open ecosystems face an unusual threat: trees

The Hindu  

Increasing tree cover is often seen as a positive outcome of biodiversity conservation, and a much-needed effort to combat climate change. In a study published on June 5 in the journal Global Change Biology, scientists of the Universities of Witwatersrand, Cape Town, and Oxford reported that more trees in open ecosystems like savannahs and grasslands have substantially reduced the number …

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Inner Mongolia villages revitalize economy with ingenious methods
6 months, 1 week ago

Inner Mongolia villages revitalize economy with ingenious methods

China Daily  

Photo taken on Sept 30, 2019, shows Ma'anshan forestry farm at Chifeng city in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region. Ma'anshan forest farm diversifies its economy Through scientific afforestation, forest cultivation, and transformation of degenerated forest, Ma'anshan forestry farm in Chifeng city has achieved 6,800 mu of afforestation, 4,000 mu transformation of degenerated forest, and 12,000 mu of forest cultivation, forming …

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Guangxi's forestry industry burgeons
1 year, 5 months ago

Guangxi's forestry industry burgeons

China Daily  

The Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region has recently issued a three-year action plan to rapidly expand its forestry industry. Emphasis will be placed on cultivating local tree species, precious tree species and medium to large-diameter timber - to continuously improve forest stock volumes and wood production per unit area. It's projected that the scale of planting for economic trees in the …

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Not all shade is the same: Gardening when there’s little sun
2 years, 8 months ago

Not all shade is the same: Gardening when there’s little sun

Associated Press  

Gardening in the shade is often thought of as a Sisyphean endeavor, swimming upstream against all odds with limited plant choices and no hope for color. Sunlight filtered through overhead tree branches resulting in light, spotty shade is referred to as “dappled.” Armed with the knowledge of your precise shade conditions, seek out plants suited to thrive in them. However, …

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India’s 'Forest Man' Wants Assam's Erosion-prone Molai Woods to Become a Community Reserve
4 years, 5 months ago

India’s 'Forest Man' Wants Assam's Erosion-prone Molai Woods to Become a Community Reserve

News 18  

“I had asked for a boat and a forest outpost for Molai Kathoni. Ever since Payeng began the ground-breaking work of reforestation in Molai forest, he also started planting trees in another sandbar nearby in 2011, which he hoped would turn into another forest in next 10 years. While the forest hosts animals that migrate from Kaziranga National Park every …

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Readers React: L.A. lost a 144-year-old fig tree. Here’s why a native oak should replace it
5 years, 9 months ago

Readers React: L.A. lost a 144-year-old fig tree. Here’s why a native oak should replace it

LA Times  

To the editor: With a touch of nostalgia, we bid farewell to a fig tree that stood in the birthplace of Los Angeles for 144 years before collapsing suddenly on March 2. The new oak could be surrounded by other California native species that ordinarily coexist with Quercus agrifolia and that would eventually form an appropriate understory for the oak. …

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