This Spruce will welcome you home year-round, not just 3/4s of the year like most other trees recommended for this option! This tree is lovely decorated for the holiday season, but it so much more than just a Christmas tree! This formal foundation tree is functional in a multitude of ways throughout the landscape! For more ornamental options, learn more about our Dwarf Crape Myrtles which also make great focal points in the landscape.įor additional options, be sure to browse our Spruce tree, Evergreen tree, Dwarf tree and Evergreen shrub options in our plant nursery. Plant this small tree at the entryway to your home or driveway. Keep your nosy neighbor out even in a small yard. Try spiral sculpting for the ultimate in posh design! The Dwarf Alberta Spruce is perfect for a dense screen in small spaces. Perfect for elegant containers in their natural state or manicured and sculpted for an extra classy impact. This small evergreen provides year-round lush green foliage that is soft to the touch. For more, learn about the top 10 Dwarf tree options. Do not use horticultural oil on Alberta Spruces. Treat with insecticidal soap for minor infections and Bifenthrin for more severe infestations. If you notice brown dry spots on your Spruce Spider Mites may be the culprit. When properly cared for, the Alberta Spruce rarely has issues with pests and disease. Be sure your tree is planted where it has plenty of air flow. The Dwarf Alberta Spruce is wind, cold, and deer resistant. If your soil is on the basic side choose a fertilizer for acid loving plants. Fertilize when planting and in early spring yearly with a slow release fertilizer. This Spruce is drought tolerant after establishing. After your plants are established, they only need watered when the potting soil is dry. Water your new tree deeply a couple times a week for the first month or two. Do not allow the mulch to touch the trunk as this increases the chances of pests and disease. After planting, adding a layer of 2 to 3 inches of mulch will help keep the soil moist. If you know you have an alkaline soil choose an acidic fertilizer like Espoma's Holly Tone. The Alberta Spruce thrives in full to part sun and adapts to any soil that is well drained. However, winter is fine as long as the ground isn't frozen and if you are in an area that has mild summers, like zones 2-5, summer is a great time to plant as well. Kubler (1991) discusses both the stress-loading and damage-tolerance explanations in much more detail, if you're interested in further reading.Spring and fall are great times for planting your Dwarf Alberta Spruce. They typically have a single trunk, grow tall and straight, and have big leaves. Examples of tropical palm trees include date palm, king palm, etc. Therefore in spiral-grained trees, if one section of the tree's root system is damaged, it does not necessarily mean that a corresponding part of the canopy will have to die off. There are over 2,500 different species of palms, which range from small house plants to towering trees that can grow over 50 feet tall. In spiral-grained trees with several years of growth, water and nutrients from a given root can be transported to branches on all sides of the trunk. The damage-tolerance explanation states that in trees with straight grain, the leaves (or needles, etc) have water delivered to them, via the xylem, from the roots on the same side of the trunk. Flexibility under stress-loading is useful in areas with heavy snowfall (as the tree can flex until the snow falls off) and in areas with heavy wind (as the tree can flex in response to wind-buffeting instead of breaking). On the square lattice, we also obtain exact lower bound of 1.93565. The stress-loading explanation states that spiral-grained trees flex more than straight-grained trees before they break. We study rooted spiral trees in 2,3 and 4 dimensions on a hyper cubic lattice using exact enumeration and Monte-Carlo techniques. The two commonly put-forward explanations for spiral growth of tree trunks related to stress-loading and damage-tolerance.
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