Bill Thomas was awarded the Scott Medal for Horticulture at Swarthmore College today.
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Ash timeline
Doylestown Borough had its first real show of Emerald Ash Borer fatalities in 2016. Sort of a 1/3 potential, with respect to removal permits submitted at Shade Tree Meetings, 3rd Wednesday of each month at Borough Hall. As chair of the borough’s STC, I predict more than half of the…
This Week in Bark
I stop frequently to check patches of maturing bark in hardwood stands near my house. Close inspection through a lens reveals so much activity.
No seriously, THIS is a Grape vine
Pealing back the layers of a hedgerow over the Winter. It is a seasonal repetition that never gets old. Always looking back in time to what context of trees and system used to be there…sort of a path of discovery in Bucks County. Very small clues, very infrequently offered up…
Free Hand Hickory Cant
Square! cuts without the rails on a piece of 100 yr. old Shag Hickory that split over a house in Plumstead last year. Slow going with such dense, squirrelly grain, but it will slab nicely with an Alaskan later. As much as I like working off ‘pony’ sawhorses, a bit…
Mulberry !
Christmas gifts using firewood from a removal a year or two ago…sooo orange with Linseed as a finish.
This is a Grape vine.
Wolf Swamp Maple in the background that needed some help…notice the lower torn lead.
That’s not a Grape Vine…
Hedgerow maintenance this week in Washington Crossing working through Black Cherry, Walnut, & Red Elm…
Real Long term effects of Sandy
Impact on the canopy in Maplewood Park’s woods, for years to come. A break in the shade is normal. This is an opportunity for the woods to be fruitful. This is a 100 yard x 100 yard rift that unfortunately will fill in with Honeysuckle (Lonicera jap.) & Burning Bush…