Urban Arborists

Urban Arborists brings the utmost standards of knowledge and care to the woody plants that turn lots into landscapes, yards into gardens, streets into groves.

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The great fort grows a woodland. God bless the grass.

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Say Amen somebody!

[Longwood Gardens @longwoodgardens]

Comet #Neowise streaked across the sky above the Meadow last night! I bloom every ~7 years but this collection of stardust comes by every 7k years! I know more about asters than astronomy but I had a strange feeling that somehow we’re all made of the same stuff. #SproutStinks 1/2

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Power of bark. My ash firewood has unsplit small diameter stems. They are 50% wetter than larger, split stems, says Sonin moisture meter. Stems as machines to transmit water to leaves. Too wet wood transmits creosote to chimney.

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Ham and cheese. American elm

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@BillKristol Replaces military hierarchy with political appointees in order to make military docile to his ends... now who else did that?

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Classic stem girdling roots

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@JeremyDBarrell Very interesting assignment. I hope you report on what you discover!

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Hurricane Irene washed away the bank, but the shape of the main roots shows how it lay.

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Blue flag in the Helderbergs. When the seed capsules open, the seeds float away to spread the colony.

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Halle’s Atlas of Poetic Botany notes a tropical carnivore that found too few insects in one place. So designed its flower to attract shrews whose poop gives the plant its N!

[NC Botanical Garden @NCBotGarden]

Our native carnivorous plants developed the ability to extract nutrients from insects in order to survive in nutrient-poor bogs and savannas. If you stick a Venus flytrap in garden-variety potting soil, it probably won't develop traps at all, since it's … https://t.co/15ICUu0kXJ

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Hazards of the urban forest. Rogue car meets fence and London plane

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In "Enlivenment: Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene" German philosopher @biopoetics argues for a new understanding of the Anthropocene that is based on mutual transformation with nature rather than control over nature. #anthropocene #philosophy
https://t.co/b2Tunu4vkn

[Katie Holten | Language of Trees🌳 | CRISIS 🇵🇸 @katieholten]

Grateful to be living here for the next two months @MacDowellColony. Experiencing Waldeinsamkeit - the feeling of being alone in woods or among trees, usually connoting calmness, meditativeness & the solace of nature.

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The lifeline roots of a street honey locust. In a city, you never know where the roots will appear.

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The gorgeous bark of native striped maple, growing beside a creek in the Helderbergs. #Huyckpreserve

[El Yunque NF @ElYunqueNF]

Tabunoco #TreeLove: At one time, the tabonuco grew throughout Puerto Rico at low elevations, and the parrot used its fruits as a food source. Today, both the parrot and the tabunoco have a reduced distribution throughout the island. Photo by National Forest Foundation

[SandiLee @WakingDreamart]

Wonderful
#art #artist #nature #treelove

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Hooray!

[Katie Holten | Language of Trees🌳 | CRISIS 🇵🇸 @katieholten]

The New York City #TreeAlphabet is ready to share. I’ll be making links available over the next few days. Can’t wait to see it out in the world.

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Pathologist Jessie Glaeser at ASCA conference said a good way to slow armillaria is to expose the root flare of the tree that has it. Sounds sensible and low tech to accomplish.

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Halka is now using air pots to hold trees once dug. Maybe instead of trouble transplanting, they can make a much better root system! Good idea I think.