Next, gather your tree trimmings. You can use pine, oak, maple, apple, birch, and most softwoods for hugelkultur beds. But avoid using allelopathic or rot-resistant woods such as cedar, black ...

Description. Our Master Gardener tree list— “Ornamental Trees for Home Gardens and Landscapes” — describes the Pinyon Pine as a slow-growing, dense tree with rounded and spreading shape.

They provide free mulch every autumn for use in landscape beds. ... its pine canopy. As owner of a retail garden center, I see that customers buy probably 500 hardwood trees for every one pine tree.

Garden advice: How to combat pine tree pests, sequoia pitch moths. Carol Savonen. Special to the Statesman Journal. Question: We have a warty looking pitchy growth on our pine trees.