Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario show that plants are capable of recognizing their siblings and will give them preferential treatment, competing less for valuable resources like root space than they otherwise would when surrounded by plants that are “strangers”. “Our view of nature is sometimes that nature is red in tooth and claw—that […]
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Friday Fun fact: The Tree that is an Entire Forest
Seen from a distance, you’d be justified in thinking the Great Banyan Tree in the Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden is a small, independent forest. Yet step into its shade and see the connection of branches – and you realize: wait, this is all one big, big….. BIG tree. The Great Banyan Tree is over two hundred […]
Friday Funfact: DaVinci’s Tree Theory
500 years ago, Leonardo Da Vinci observed a simple fact that nobody had apparently ever noticed before:that “all branches of a tree … put together are equal in thickness to its trunk.”In other words, if a tree’s branches were folded upward and squeezed together, the tree would look like one big trunk with the same […]
ArborScape Friday Tree Fact: The Moon Trees
ArborScape Friday Fun fact! The Moon Trees In 1971, astronaut Stuart Roosa took 500 seeds aboard Apollo 14 as part of his personal luggage. In his earlier life, Roosa worked for the Forest Service in the early 1950s as a smoke jumper fighting fires and later joined the Air Force and became a test pilot. […]
Tree Trimming Scams 101
Friends, neighbors, and followers:We all know that this is high time for home improvements, especially tree trimming and other plant health care treatments – and of course, where there’s plentiful activity, there are parasites who take advantage of the bustle. Here’s a heads-up on the latest tree trimming scam we’ve noticed sweeping the country […]
2015 Colorado Arbor Day Poster Contest Winner!
The winner of this year’s Colorado Arbor Day Poster Contest, co-sponsored by ArborScape and the Colorado Tree Coalition, is Steck Elementary’s, Nick Babiak. Nick’s poster, on the theme, Celebrate Trees in our Community, along with all winning posters from each school, will be on display at the state Capitol Building beginning Monday the 27th and extending through […]
Colorado Champion Trees, tree tours, and new tree finder app
A notable tree is one that is remarkable or distinguished in some way or one that’s related to a famous or historical person, place, or event. A tree might also be notable if the surrounding community accepts it as being special, based upon its species, uniqueness, or contribution to the community. Many of the trees […]
The Latest in Tree Service Technology – Green Truck
Updated 7/9/2014 Leave it to NPR to find a very compelling new tree service technology called an excavator mulcher. Watch it literally swallow a 30 foot lodge-pole pine. Made by a Quebec company called Denis CIMAF, it does a tree removal in 15 seconds, a job that would take us two to three hours. […]