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We’re sharing our best tips, tricks, projects, resources and inspiration to help you achieve landscape & gardening success.

Protecting Tree Bark in Winter

Leif February 20, 2014

Valuable trees in your landscape can suffer damage to the bark from winter sun, mice and rabbits eating bark, deer antler rubbing and scarring from weed whips and mower decks.  If the  bark on your younger trees is still intact, it’s not too late to protect them with inexpensive, easy

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