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Clayton Bell, guerrilla orchardist
Clayton Bell is “an environmental hydrogeologist in Houston, Texas who is obsessed with growing fruit trees,” and his blog The Bell House is the latest addition to our linkroll of blogs about trees and...
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Trees and cultural landscapes
It’s not a blog post, but we like this photo exhibition at Garden Design website: “Landslide: Every Tree Tells a Story.” In 2010, The Cultural Landscape Foundation and American Photo magazine, with...
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How to save trees on construction sites
A Cape Cod, Massachusetts-based tree care company called Forest Keepers maintains a blog of Tree Care Tips separate from their business site with lots of interesting posts. Their latest, “Tree...
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Tree stamps!
Evidently in pre-digital days, landscape architects would use rubber stamps to add trees to blueprints. Tom Turner at Gardenvisit.com shares “a scan of a very high-class set of tree stamps” which, as...
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New study: U.S. cities losing 4 million trees a year
Eric Jaffe, writing in the online news magazine The Atlantic Cities (a spin-off of what used to be called The Atlantic Monthly), reports on the findings of a new study in Urban Forestry & Urban...
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“Food forest” planned for Seattle
The locavore and livable cites movements have found common cause in Seattle, according to TakePart: Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward. A seven-acre plot of land in the city’s...
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A perfect day among urban trees
Philly Trees: Have you ever seen a photo of a newborn mammal? The way the light shines through the pink flesh, through the transparent eyelids and through the doughy snouts, a field of stars shining...
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Sycamore in a road drain
Loose and Leafy: The tree grew so well, the space available to it became a little congested. At the top of the tree (which, I would guess, is about two feet high) leaves would rise above road level,...
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The American elm which symbolises survival
The recent devastating tornado which tore through central Oklahoma prompted a meditation on the symbolism of Oklahoma’s Survivor Tree, written by Melinda Householder on the Loose Leaf Blog: As the...
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A story of gaps in the understory
Philadelphia has a whole host of missing trees and none are more famous than the Great Elm of Shackamaxon. Jon Spruce journeys to the hereafter and back… At the time of its toppling, it was 283 years...
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