It really is orange…but not really an orange.
Red Clay Penn Oak
Visited my friend, Jenn Roth, a Geographer / Educator / Naturalist & coordinator at the Brandywine Red Clay Alliance to cruise the preserve & catch up. The Penn Oak on the property came down last year on what was then the BVA Brandywine Valley Association… Came down quietly in the…
Meaty mushrooms in August
Off Oak & Beech roots So many rains this season, and August is no exception. More than a handful of 70 degree days through this month – really just an early September…since the first week of August. August is a family name on my mother’s side, but a tough one…
Stem Concerns
Always check containerized stock for pot issues. I was just fooled & onsite with a bunch of very healthy shrubs…up top. This was what was below…3/4 girdled from frost splitting soaked lower stems that were buried since Fall. All of the osmocote was piled around the base of the stems…
X faurei
The one truly hardy Myrtle…& how can you complain about that stem cluster?!
Basking Ridge White Oak
What could be the National Champion White Oak is slated to come down tomorrow! in a small Basking Ridge cemetery in New Jersey. Going to be a rediculous Removal considering DAVEY Tree injected like 6 cubic yards of cement into the main trunk to deal with a trunk cavity in…
April 10th – Mayapple umbrellas open up!
I informally track when plants do their thing year to year, like most gardeners. This year, Podophyllum pushed out on a particularly warm day in Veteran’s Park woods last week…the same day my 3rd daughter was born. Very sweet. Waiting to see next, if they will bud/bloom on May 1st,…
R. William Thomas!
Bill Thomas was awarded the Scott Medal for Horticulture at Swarthmore College today.
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…