Trees
With hurricane season beginning within the week, it’s a great time to assess your trees and try to anticipate which might be vulnerable to wind damage. Typical wind damage includes loss of limbs, split trunk, and total uprooting of the tree. After Hurricane Dolly, we had a 50 or 60 year old Ash tree…
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Texas Persimmons, also known as Chapote, is a small semi-deciduous tree with dark green leaves. It is often low forking or multi-trunked. In South Texas, Texas Persimmons performs much like a live oak, retaining its leaves throughout the winter and then dropping them shortly before flushing fresh leaves in the spring. It prefers well drained, alkaline soils. …
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How your new tree is planted can determine whether it thrives or dies. Dig a hole twice as wide and the same depth as the root ball. If you have heavy clay soil, mix your dirt and a planting mix ½ and ½. Cut and completely remove the bag or pot from the trees. Plant the…
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Just because someone has a lift truck and a saw does not make him a tree trimmer. The best way to protect your palms against this kind of hatchet job is with a little knowledge of your own. When it comes to trimming palm trees, my basic rules are: 1. Only trim brown fronds…
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A dreary, rainy day is perfect for planning and I have palm trees on my mind! Palm trees add a tropical, take-me-away feeling to any landscape. #1 Plant for space definition: Use in rows to line something or define boundaries These Queen or Cocus Palms line the circular drive giving it definition. These three…
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Paloverde ‘Desert Museum’ gives us all the ease and beauty of a native desert tree without the thorns! We’ve grown them for about five years now and love them every bit as much as we thought we would. When we first planted them in the field, we were amazed at how fast they grew. They…
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Native to Southwest and Central Texas, the blooms of the Texas Mountain Laurel are one of the first signs of spring. The flowers are typically dark purple but occasionally a tree will bloom in pale lavender or white. No matter the color, the flower clusters have the distinctive aroma of grape soda. Mountain Laurels are…
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Even though we see the tree canopy, the best sign of health is the tree roots! At Simmons Tree Farms, all our shade trees are field-grown in RootMaker bags. These bags have a solid bottom with knit mesh sides. As you can see in the picture below, this system helps the tree develop lots and…
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It’s so disappointing when you get no (or few) blooms on your Texas Mountain Laurels! Fear not . . . there may be a few things you can do to help . . . . Really, these are really some things you should NOT do in order to help your Texas Mountain Laurel bloom more!…
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