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		<title>Thriving live hemlock</title>
		<link>http://takingplace.net/2011/10/28/thriving-live-hemlock/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Howe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That last post made a good point &#8212; sometimes the leftovers in a landscape can be used as a feature in and of itself &#8212; but I much prefer the photo here. This hemlock is very much alive, and lives outside of Boston on private property. Carl Cathcart, Consulting Arborist, took me to see this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingplace.net&amp;blog=3540962&amp;post=2110&amp;subd=takingplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hemlock root flare excavation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Howe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been a while since I&#8217;ve written about root flares. I got some photos from my friend Carl Cathcart the other day, showcasing the excavation of a hemlock root flare. This tree is one of a hedge of 7-8&#8242; tall hemlocks planted two years ago. Its owner had noticed that while the hedge wasn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingplace.net&amp;blog=3540962&amp;post=2069&amp;subd=takingplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dappled willow</title>
		<link>http://takingplace.net/2011/06/07/dappled-willow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 20:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Howe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About ten years ago, I noticed a mild fad rev up in the gardening world; all the garden centers around here started carrying Salix integra &#8216;Hakuro Nishiki&#8217;, usually trained into standard form with a 3-4&#8242; high stem and a pompom of foliage at top. Hakuro Nishiki, also known as Dappled Willow, is a fast-growing, twiggy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingplace.net&amp;blog=3540962&amp;post=2055&amp;subd=takingplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If a tree falls in a garden&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://takingplace.net/2010/06/15/if-a-tree-falls-in-a-garden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Howe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8216;Shademaster&#8217;), 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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingplace.net&amp;blog=3540962&amp;post=1961&amp;subd=takingplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a new rain garden at UMass Amherst</title>
		<link>http://takingplace.net/2010/05/16/a-new-rain-garden-at-umass-amherst/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 18:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toby Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<title>both/and</title>
		<link>http://takingplace.net/2010/05/15/bothand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 11:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toby Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingplace.net&amp;blog=3540962&amp;post=1832&amp;subd=takingplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Commissioner Weighs In</title>
		<link>http://takingplace.net/2010/04/18/the-commissioner-weighs-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toby Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote here that &#8220;a big tree does more to keep a city cool and clean than a small one does.&#8221; Adrian Benape, New York City&#8217;s parks and recreation commissioner, has the numbers. The first number is 102. New York, he says, plants &#8220;102 different unique cultivars and species of street trees in pursuit of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingplace.net&amp;blog=3540962&amp;post=1813&amp;subd=takingplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pollen&#8217;s only part of the story</title>
		<link>http://takingplace.net/2010/04/17/pollens-only-part-of-the-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Howe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ZZZZZZZZZZZZSSSSSSDDDDchew!! Excuse me; Toby&#8217;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&#8217;s original [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingplace.net&amp;blog=3540962&amp;post=1799&amp;subd=takingplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a city without pollen, a city without oaks</title>
		<link>http://takingplace.net/2010/04/12/a-city-without-pollen-a-city-without-oaks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:46:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Toby Wolf</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingplace.net&amp;blog=3540962&amp;post=1782&amp;subd=takingplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sign</title>
		<link>http://takingplace.net/2010/03/15/sign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deborah Howe</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=takingplace.net&amp;blog=3540962&amp;post=1745&amp;subd=takingplace&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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