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Low-Maintenance Landscaping
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Create a beautiful, low-maintenance landscape with thoughtful design, proper plant selection, and easy-to-care-for features that suit your space and lifestyle.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees - Page 19
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River birch is a fast-growing, adaptable tree with attractive peeling bark, perfect for wet soils and offering shade and aesthetic appeal.
Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees - Page 22
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Learn about the Sugar Maple, a vibrant tree known for its fall color and maple syrup production, ideal for landscaping and adding beauty to your yard.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees - Page 25
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Trident maple is a compact, adaptable tree with vibrant fall color, thriving in various soils and urban environments. Ideal for smaller landscapes.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees - Page 28
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Learn about white oak's adaptability, soil preferences, and growth characteristics for choosing the ideal shade tree for your landscape.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Uncommon Trees for Specimen Plantings
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Check out some uncommon landscape trees that have a good chance for survival in the Missouri climate.
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Aphids, Scales and Mites on Home Garden and Landscape Plants
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Piercing-sucking pests such as aphids, scales and mites are commonly found on home garden and landscape plants. Learn how to identify and control them in this University of Missouri Extension guide.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees, Page 02
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Discover the American sycamore, a fast-growing shade tree with distinctive bark, pest resistance, and adaptability to wet soil conditions.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees, Page 05
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Learn about the black gum tree’s unique features, including its stunning fall color, adaptability to various landscapes, and benefits for wildlife.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees, Page 08
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Discover the ginkgo tree (Ginkgo biloba), a resilient, medium-sized shade tree with unique fan-shaped leaves and vibrant yellow fall color.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees - Page 11
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Honey locust trees are excellent shade providers with lacy foliage and minimal leaf litter. Improved thornless, podless varieties are recommended for planting.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees - Page 14
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Discover the best shade trees for your landscape, including lindens with fragrant summer flowers and improved varieties like 'Greenspire' and 'Redmond'.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees - Page 17
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Discover characteristics, growth habits, and ideal conditions for various shade trees like Red Maple, offering valuable insights for your landscape planning.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees - Page 20
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Siberian elm is a fast-growing, hardy shade tree that thrives in tough conditions but can become invasive and have weak wood. Suitable for large spaces.
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Corn Diseases
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Editor's note
The following abstract describes a publication that is only available as a downloadable PDF.
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Selecting Landscape Plants: Shade Trees - Page 23
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Swamp white oak is a durable, fast-growing shade tree that thrives in wet soils. Known for its resistance to pests, it provides excellent shade and fall color.
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Missouri Bobwhite Quail Habitat Appraisal Guide
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The Missouri Bobwhite Quail Habitat Appraisal Guide helps landowners assess and improve their property's potential to support bobwhite quail populations.
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Helpful Tips for Grandparents and Caregivers: Talking With Young People About Sex
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Talking with young people about sex can be uncomfortable and difficult at times. But it is important that you establish yourself as a trusted source of reliable information for the child in your care. Here are some valuable tips for talking about sexuality with your young person.
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Important Missouri Laws: A Guide for New Residents
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Editor's note
The following abstract describes a publication that is only available as a downloadable PDF.
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When a Child's Parent Is Incarcerated
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Help children cope with an incarcerated parent through honesty, open communication, and support. Learn how to navigate this challenging situation.
