Following up on the list post item from June 9, about what to use to replace a lost Norway maple: it will be a honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos inermis ‘Shademaster’), placed slightly upslope from the Norway stump. Last week I visited the North Shore seaside site (where last year we revamped the drive court planting [...]
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If a tree falls in a garden…
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Places, Plant management, Plants, tagged landscape architecture, landscape, spatial design, waterfront, tree planting on June 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
a new rain garden at UMass Amherst
Posted in Biodiversity and Biophilia, Plants, Toby's posts on May 16, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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both/and
Posted in Miscellaneous, Plants, Toby's posts on May 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I should have known, of course. In a recent post on trees and pollen, I wrote: Bee-pollinated trees don’t bother to release the kind of pollen that makes you sneeze, and wind-pollinated plants don’t bother to attract bees. (There may be belt-and-suspenders plants out there that can be pollinated by wind but would like also to be pollinated by [...]
The Commissioner Weighs In
Posted in Biodiversity and Biophilia, Plants, Toby's posts, tagged adrian benape, allergies, new york city, new york times, thomas lee ogren, urban forest, wind-pollination on April 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I wrote here that “a big tree does more to keep a city cool and clean than a small one does.” Adrian Benape, New York City’s parks and recreation commissioner, has the numbers. The first number is 102. New York, he says, plants “102 different unique cultivars and species of street trees in pursuit of [...]
Pollen’s only part of the story
Posted in Biodiversity and Biophilia, Deb's posts, Plant management, Plants, What we're thinking on April 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
ZZZZZZZZZZZZSSSSSSDDDDchew!! Excuse me; Toby’s photo of the pollinating pine in that last post just makes my nose tickle. His points about pollinating trees make sense to me; wind-pollinated trees are different in nature from insect-pollinated trees, and have quite different effects on those allergic to fine particulates. I have to say that Mr. Ogren’s original [...]
a city without pollen, a city without oaks
Posted in Biodiversity and Biophilia, Plants, Questions, Toby's posts, tagged allergies, bees, honey, new york times, pollen, thomas lee ogren, urban forest, urban forester, wind-pollination on April 12, 2010 | 2 Comments »
On Saturday the Times published two letters that responded to its recent op-ed piece by Thomas Lee Ogren on trees, pollen, and allergies. One reader, Christine Lehrer, wrote: Honeybees collect pollen from the very trees that are causing all the sneezing and runny noses. By taking a spoonful of honey daily, approaching and during allergy season, you [...]
Sign
Posted in Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, Plants on March 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
As I was driving down a Cambridge street last Tuesday this scene caught my eye. My heartfelt good wishes and thanks to whatever forward-thinking kind soul who planted these crocus bulbs and let them naturalize through the lawn; after a long and cold and grey winter they were balm for the eyes. Apologies for the [...]
It’s that season
Posted in Deb's posts, Gristmill, Plants, What we're thinking, tagged city plantings, Plants, urban plantings on March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Last week a friend mentioned seeing a yellow-flowering shrub on the VFW Parkway in Boston. It reminded me of the show of Hamamelis that used to appear outside of the Harvard Business School’s Baker Library back in the early 80s; when I first saw it (this was a few years before I became a landscape [...]
Deskside greenery
Posted in Biodiversity and Biophilia, Deb's posts, Miscellaneous, Plants, What we're thinking, Working Landscape, tagged Plants on February 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Another grey and cold day in a long, cold month. Going to my desk and working is a good antidote to the gloominess, especially when the Cattleya next to my drawing board blooms (as it did last fall), or the Ripsalis in the window each January reliably turns from a mop of green string into [...]
On the Greenway
Posted in Biodiversity and Biophilia, Places, Plants, Toby's posts on January 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Save Boston’s Greenway Gardens is a facebook page (here) and a web site (here) devoted to protecting and enhancing the three blocks of gardens on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway. (For more, look here and here and here too.) Keep ‘em green!
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