Posted in Miscellaneous on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Lessons learned:
Be where the TV crew is. Don’t waste your time planting trees.
Be where the TV crew is before they decide they need to go to Everett to cover some dumb fire.
Have a truck.
Put your logo on it. Stand in front of the truck.
If 1 through 5 fail, feel a sense of relief.
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Posted in Plants on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Some plants can be aggressive. Once I lived in a fourth-floor apartment with a view out to the block’s clustered back yards. One yard over from mine was a big Norway maple tree, probably 45 or 50 feet tall, with a specimen-round crown. It cast dense shade in the little yard, and prevented any real [...]
Posted in Plants on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
This is the season that trees show us that we belong to them, as they fill the world with the finest dust clouds of pollen. Every spring I’m reminded of a favorite English professor of mine advising us, probably his last group of students, to read widely and well, and to “coat your minds with [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on April 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m looking out at the corner of a yard that once was filled with Norway maple saplings. Most of the saplings are now gone — felled by saw, Roundup, and hatchet — and the few that remain lie in a thick horizontal bundle, their stems cut almost all the way through. This bundle, which should [...]
Posted in What we're thinking on April 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday a friend and I were talking about his career plans. He’s a horticulturist, and has been grappling with the decision whether or not to go back to school to study landscape architecture. If he were to get a job in horticulture instead, and take classes on the side, he thought he might like to [...]
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