Tag: trees
Walk With The Mayor Joins Arbor Day Celebration
BEVERLY HILLS—The city of Beverly Hills is celebrating the 32nd Annual Arbor Day with the Walk with the Mayor weekly event on Monday, June...
A Tree Falls In The Forest
UNITED STATES—A Great Basin bristlecone pine tree of the eastern Sierra Nevada can live more than five thousand years. A giant sequoia tree of...
Big Trees Really Need Arborists
UNITED STATES—Stormy winter weather always reminds some of us that our trees need some attention. Wind can break limbs. If the weather gets really...
Westwood Neighborhood Council To Replace Damaged Trees
WESTWOOD—The Westwood Neighborhood Council will plant 20 trees on Westwood Boulevard to remove existing trees that have been damaged in the past few years.
The...
Trees Do Not Like Chimneys
UNITED STATES—There are many reasons why fireplaces and their chimneys are not such a safety concern like they were decades ago. Only a few...
Santa Monica Urban Forestry Program Receives Accreditation
SANTA MONICA—The Society of Municipal Arborists (SMA) honored the city of Santa Monica’s Urban Forestry program with accreditation in February 2016. This made Santa...
Trees Need Clearance From Utilities
UNITED STATES—Palm trunks grow in only one direction; upward, toward sunlight and away from gravity. Each trunk is equipped with only a single terminal...
Arborists Really Know Their Trees
UNITED STATES—It is no surprise that there are many different types of physicians within the medical industries. Pediatricians, surgeons, cardiologists, dermatologists, and all sorts...
Living Christmas Trees Grow Up
UNITED STATES—All around town, there are Italian stone pines, Canary Island pines, Monterey pines and Aleppo pines that are much too big for the...
Straight And Narrow For Trees
UNITED STATES—In the wild, trees do just fine without any help from anyone else. They certainly are not stupid. Their roots disperse for adequate...
Watering Trees Is Still Important
UNITED STATES—All the optimistic predictions of a rainy winter do not help with the drought yet. Nice warm weather only makes the garden even...
Streets Are Cooler With Shade
UNITED STATES—There really is no such thing as a perfect tree. Some are not quite as messy as others. Some have better structural integrity...
Eucalypti Are Innately Drought Tolerant
UNITED STATES—Drought is nothing new here. There could be plenty of rain next winter and for years afterward; but eventually, there will be another...
Evergreen Trees Have Their Place
UNITED STATES—Deciduous trees that were bare all winter are now foliating and making shade. They sure will be appreciated when the weather gets warmer...
Deciduous Fruit Trees Need Pruning
UNITED STATES—Deciduous fruit trees have no business in a low maintenance landscape. They need as much specialized pruning while dormant in winter as roses...
Pollarding Is Extreme Tree Pruning
UNITED STATES—Most arborists insist that pollarding is horticulturally incorrect. However, most of us who have pollard trees in our home gardens are not arborists....
Dispel Cut Christmas Tree Guilt
UNITED STATES—Christmas trees are like vegetables. Really, they are like big vegetables that do not get eaten. They are grown on farms, and then...
Arborists Specialize In Tree Horticulture
UNITED STATES—Why is it so difficult to believe that there are so many different kinds of horticultural professionals? No one is ever surprised that...
Keep Vegetation Clear From Chimneys
UNITED STATES—Fireplaces simply are not what they used to be. Building regulations in many municipalities do not allow for the construction of new fireplaces,...
