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Category Archives: Tree Care
Can This Tree Be Saved?
How about it, Tree Stewards and arborists? What’s your prognosis for an Eastern redbud Cercis canadensis ‘Forest Pansy’ with a see-through split trunk? Click each image for a better view: This perky redbud caught our fancy as we conducted the … Continue reading
Watering Young Trees = SUCCESS
October 2013 was just the first step in reforesting Tarleton Park in Alexandria. TD Bank employees under the guidance of TreeSteward volunteers planted 30 trees – and provided enough funds for weekly summer watering for two years. You can read … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandria, tree care, water
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Winter Tree Care
The winter months are a great time to catch-up on tree maintenance and prepare for the spring growing season. During the summer months, it is important to water trees but generally not perform maintenance (i.e. pruning or pest treatments); while … Continue reading
Continuing Care and ID at Four Mile Run Park
Just like human babies, newly planted trees need ongoing care and protection. In April 2013, TreeStewards and Casey Trees planted twenty-five young trees in Four Mile Run Park off Mt. Vernon Avenue. And over the last two summers, TreeSteward Kurt Moser … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandria, tree care, tree ID
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Grate Project Protects Our Street Trees
By TreeSteward Richard Fontwengler In March of this year teams of Tree Stewards fanned out along the Rosslyn-Ballston corridor to inspect street trees growing in planter pits with tree grates. Arlington County, short on resources to survey the condition of … Continue reading
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Shark Attack Fears and Tree Survival
Did you know that people at the beach are more worried about a Shark Attack than they are about a car accident during the long drive to and from the beach? Guess which has a higher probability? We learned that fact … Continue reading
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Tagged certified arborists, sharks, storms
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Can Trees become Pets?
My grandparents scaped a living from a small farm. Grandad would bandage cuts on his horses’, rub salve on coughing cows, and treat the dogs mange with sulphur powder; when a tree limb broke, he sawed it off where it was most … Continue reading
Relax: The Solution to Cicadas and Trees
The hype is everywhere: We are being invaded by 17 year cicadas which emerge from the ground by the thousands every 17 years.The cicada nymphs hang out in trees, shrubs, and other plants, and then molt into adulthood. Adult males … Continue reading
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Tagged cicadas, netting, tree damage
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Tree Canopy Fund Education: April 29 & May 11, 2013
If you live in Arlington, you can have a shade tree planted in your yard, condo, apartment building, or other private property for FREE. Select from more than 30 native tree species provided through the Tree Canopy Fund. The fund is … Continue reading
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Tagged Arlington, planting, Tree Canopy Fund
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