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Spring Educational Events at Holscher and Hackman Garden Center to include Arbor Doctor Ron Rothhaas and many others
Our friends at Holscher and Hackman Garden Center are once again hosting a series of free classes this spring. Arbor Doctor Ron Rothhaas will be talking on declining evergreens on April 16 at 10AM. A ...
Oak Wilt in the Northeastern and Midwestern States, A Story Map by the USDA Forest Service Eastern Region
The USDA Forest Service recently completed a story map entitled “Oak Wilt in the Northeastern and Midwestern States”. Oak wilt, which kills hundreds of thousands of oaks in the U.S. each year, is comp...
THE CASEBOOK OF DR. D. R. SLATER No. 739: One Problem That Will Keep Coming Around… And Around…
By Duncan Slater PhD • 1st Arboriculturist, Lecturer, Researcher, Arbor Day UK Co-ordinator & Discoverer of Natural Bracing in Trees 3d
Reprinted with permission
Will the best mulch please stand up
Foundational to plant health care is healthy roots and healthy soil ecology. Surprisingly, many of the mulches we have been using in our landscapes are not as wonderful as we think. Very finely ground...
Previously, my casebook has recorded the construction of paths causing root damage and basal decay in trees. Due to the recent winter storms, these lessons in ‘path-ology’ have now extended to documen...
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Podcast of my segment with gardening expert Ron Wilson on February 5, 2022. This also includes a good explanation as to why 2.5 inches of sleet created such a mess and was nearly impossible to clean o...
What is the Fibonacci sequence?
Flowers, pine cones, shells, fruits, hurricanes and even spiral galaxies, all exhibit the Fibonacci sequence. 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21… The Fibonacci sequence. Every number in the sequence is generate...
