This past week I had occasion to pass the same suburban Massachusetts middle school on two days in a row, and on each of those days my eyes goggled at the sight of a new planting on a slope facing the road. The array of brown, grey, and coppery-red foliage — on the trees that [...]
Archive for the ‘Arboriculture’ Category
To the beech
Posted in Arboriculture, Miscellaneous, Plant management, Trees, tagged Arboriculture, Carl Cathcart, Hartney Greymont, inarching, Jack Alexander, Plant management, tree grafting, tree issues, Trees on May 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I took a great class this past January at the Arnold Arboretum. It was called Grafting Techniques for Ornamental Trees, and was taught by Jack Alexander, the Arboretum’s Plant Propagator. Jack, who is not only an extremely talented plantsman but an excellent teacher, taught us how to prepare cuttings, how to make several different kinds [...]
Ancient trees
Posted in Arboriculture, Miscellaneous, Plant management, Trees on April 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If we can clone crabapples, maples, and chamaecyparis, why can’t we clone the enormous redwoods that stand as the world’s tallest trees? Well, apparently we can. This article in Sunday’s New York Times (4/10/2011) explains how a group of arborists dedicated to propagating and planting clonal stands of coastal and giant sequoias, using tissue and cuttings [...]
Herbie: the next phase
Posted in Arboriculture, Plant management, Trees, tagged Arboriculture, Herbie the Yarmouth elm, Plant management, tree issues, Trees on June 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday I swung by the site where Herbie, the American Elm in Yarmouth, Maine, had stood for over two centuries. Herbie was taken down last January; to read the tale see this post, and to see photos of Herbie’s stump, click on this link. I hadn’t planned to stop and see the stump — what [...]
-
Author
-
Top Posts
-
Recent Posts
Categories
Copyright Notice
Deborah Howe
