Table of Contents
- Creating a Balanced Landscape: The Partnership Between Trees and Lawns – UGA Extension Publication
- Historic Crop: Indigo
- Native Plants for Georgia Part I – Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines – UGA CAES Field Report
- Controlling Poison Ivy in the Landscape – UGA CAES Field Report Publication
- Conservation on Private Lands – GA DNR Program (Open Habitat Initiative)
- Invasive Species: Trifoliate Orange (Citrus trifoliata)
Creating a Balanced Landscape: The Partnership Between Trees and Lawns – UGA Extension Publication
UGA Extension contacts: Tiana Deeb, Bodie V. Pennisi, Jason Gordon, and Clint Waltz
Trees have many benefits in the landscape. Healthy, established trees alleviate the urban heat island effect, which is the phenomenon of increased temperatures in urban areas due to pavement and structures reflecting and emitting more heat.
Photo credit:copied from UGA publication
Whether you have just acquired a new property or you have been maintaining one for a while, you have paid at least passing attention to the trees in your landscape. From iconic pines, colorful maples, elegant poplars, to stately oaks, trees are an inseparable and meaningful part of our landscapes.
Historic Crop: Indigo
Written by: MC Halbrook, Glynn & McIntosh Co ANR Agent
Indigo has been used for centuries to dye textiles. Records of use in Peru date back to 4,000BCE.
Photo Credit: copied from article
Native Plants for Georgia Part I – Trees, Shrubs, and Woody Vines – UGA CAES Field Report
Our native landscape is the inspiration for this guide to native plants for Georgia gardens.
Photo credit: copied from UGA Extension Publication
There are many definitions for native plants. Several references say native plants are those that grow naturally in a particular region without direct or indirect human intervention. Other references place a historical timeline on native plants, saying they are plants that were present in a particular area prior to European settlement of that area. Others say they are plants that have inhabited a particular region for thousands of years.
Controlling Poison Ivy in the Landscape – UGA CAES Field Report Publication
Poison ivy (toxicodendron radicans) leaf with three leaflets
Photo credit: copied from publication
Poison ivy is a woody perennial that belongs to the Cashew (Anacardiaceae) family. It may grow as a small shrub or as a high-climbing vine with aerial rootlets on trees, fence rows, and buildings.
Conservation on Private Lands – GA DNR Program (Open Habitat Initiative)
The Open Habitat Initiative (OHI) is a new conservation program that provides incentive payments to qualifying landowners/tenants who install conservation practices that open and improve wildlife habitat on their property.
Invasive Species: Trifoliate Orange (Citrus trifoliata)
Invasive deciduous shrub or small tree, grows up to 25 ft tall and has long thorns.
Leaves are compound with three leaflets, alternate, dark green, ellptical to teardrop (obovate)shape, and 1-2.5 inches long.
Flowers in spring; showy, white with fine petals, and occurring in clusters
Fruit is hairy, green turning orange, round, and up to 1.5 inched wide.
Note: often used as root stock for sweet orange cultivars and sprouts may shoot up below graft point.
Photo Credit: copied from UGA Center for Invasive Species Extension Newsletter
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