TREES, PLEASE! Pruning Trees
By Tim Clancy, for Let’s Talk Plants! September 2024. Pruning Trees All things being equal, an unpruned tree will always grow faster than...
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September 2024
- Jul 1
TREES, PLEASE! The Case Of The Leaning Tree
By Tim Clancy, for Let’s Talk Plants! July 2024. One of the trees in the author's “neighborwoods” is an Aleppo pine, Pinus halepensis....
- May 1
TREES, PLEASE! How Many Of Which Kind And Where Are They?
By Tim Clancy, for Let’s Talk Plants! May 2024. How Many of Which Kind and Where Are They? If you happen to be in a grocery store at the...
- Mar 1
TREES, PLEASE! Oaks And Art
By Tim Clancy, for Let’s Talk Plants! March 2024. Oaks and Art There is an adage that goes something like “the best to time plant a tree...
- Jan 1
TREES, PLEASE! COE Tree ID Five Four Six Four
By Tim Clancy, for Let’s Talk Plants! January 2024. COE Tree ID Five Four Six Four In the City of Encinitas (COE) most of the city owned...
- Nov 1, 2023
TREES, PLEASE! There Goes The Neighborhood
By Tim Clancy, for Let’s Talk Plants! November 2023. There Goes the Neighborhood In the community of Cardiff-by-the-Sea, the South...
- Sep 1, 2023
TREES, PLEASE! Coppice - The Woodland Husbandry Technique Also Called Resprout Silviculture
By Tim Clancy, for Let’s Talk Plants! September 2023. Coppice - The Woodland Husbandry Technique Also Called Resprout Silviculture Most...
- Jul 1, 2023
TREES, PLEASE! Damper, Damper 10-4
By Tim Clancy, for Let’s Talk Plants! July 2023. Damper, Damper 10-4 Last time, we talked about trees and pruning a little bit and here...
- May 1, 2023
TREES, PLEASE! Boats Have Mainsails, Trees Not So Much (Part l of ll)
By Tim Clancy, for Let’s Talk Plants! May 2023. Boats Have Mainsails, Trees Not So Much (Part l of ll) I am always looking for trees and...
- Mar 1, 2023
TREES, PLEASE! Read Carefully
By Tim Clancy, for Let's Talk Plants! March 2023. Read Carefully Tree pruning is an essential process that is done to maintain and...
- Jan 1, 2023
TREES, PLEASE! Do You See What I See?
By Tim Clancy, for Let’s Talk Plants! January 2023. Do You See What I See? One of the fabulous perks of living in Southern California is...
- Nov 1, 2022
TREES, PLEASE! Changing Skylines
By Tim Clancy, for Let’s Talk Plants! November 2022. Changing Skylines Like buildings, many trees can be recognized from miles away. Some...
- Sep 1, 2022
TREES, PLEASE! The Other Roosevelt Tree
By Tim Clancy, for Let’s Talk Plants! September 2022. One way to get to see some of the oldest trees in the world is to take a drive...
- Jul 1, 2022
TREES, PLEASE! Conifers - A Fascinating Class Of Trees
By Tim Clancy, for Let's Talk Plants! July 2022. One of the joys of living in San Diego is the sheer variety of trees to admire. When I...
- May 1, 2022
TREES, PLEASE! Tiki Carved Trees
By Tim Clancy, for Let's Talk Plants! May 2022. Almost 100 years ago the tiki culture became popular in the United States. One of the...
- Mar 1, 2022
TREES, PLEASE! Tree Mutilation For Fun And Profit
Tree Mutilation For Fun And Profit By Tim Clancy, for Let's Talk Plants! March 2022. For me, tree pruning falls into three general...
- Jan 1, 2022
TREES, PLEASE: Petrified Wood In North County
By Tim Clancy, for Let's Talk Plants! January 2022. About 600 miles from San Diego in Arizona is a National Park named the Petrified...
- Nov 1, 2021
TREES, PLEASE! Diamonds Are Not A Palm’s Best Friend
By Tim Clancy, for Let's Talk Plants! November 2021. Right tree, right place. This advice is really a warning that we should plan for the...
- Sep 1, 2021
TREES, PLEASE! One Can Only Wish!
By Tim Clancy for Let's Talk Plants! September 2021. Tree Adoption Process Thank you for your interest in adopting a rescue tree from the...
- Jul 1, 2021
TREES, PLEASE! The Silk Oak
By Tim Clancy. One of my favorite trees these days is the silk oak, Grevillea robusta. I was fascinated by its flowers when I first saw...
- May 1, 2021
TREES, PLEASE! Aesop And His Tree Fables
By Tim Clancy. I am sure most of you are familiar with the great storyteller Aesop and his fables. The most famous one being the The Hare...
- Mar 1, 2021
TREES, PLEASE! One Person’s Trash Is Another’s Treasure.
Not long ago I received a call from an HOA resident who was distressed that the HOA board had decided to remove some trees. Well, they reall
- Jan 1, 2021
FROM THE ARCHIVES: Trees, Please! - Premature Obituary
On June 2nd, 1898 American humorist Mark Twain was quoted as follows: “The report of my death was an exaggeration.” If trees could talk the
- Nov 1, 2020
TREES, PLEASE: The Gall of Some Trees!
One of the best things about working with and studying trees is the availability of subjects. If you’re a doctor you wait for patients to
- Sep 1, 2020
TREES, PLEASE: Don’t try this at Home!
A good friend of mine owns a nursery in San Diego named South Coast Wholesale. One of his business ventures involves moving big trees. Somet
- Jul 1, 2020
TREES, PLEASE! A Little Slice of "hisTree"
And now for something completely different. So, for whatever reason you can't venture out and admire trees. Yet you need to get your tree fi
- Mar 1, 2020
TREES, PLEASE! Dead as a Doornail
In the world of Urban Forestry one of the concepts we consider is the safe useful life expectancy (SULE) of a tree. There are many component
- Jan 1, 2020
TREES, PLEASE: My Tree, iTree.
Trees add to our enjoyment of our daily living. Providing habitat for local fauna, screening from annoying situations, they are harvested fo
- Sep 1, 2019
TREES, PLEASE: Tree Ordinances. Love them or leave them?
By Tim Clancy. Sometimes government agencies get it right. In other cases, government regulations seem arbitrary, over-reaching and...
- Jul 1, 2019
TREES, PLEASE: Pruning Perils: Trees Have a Mind of Their Own
By Tim Clancy. Sometimes it almost seems as if trees have a mind of their own. This is especially true when it comes to pruning and...
- May 1, 2019
TREES, PLEASE: Consult the Manual!
By Tim Clancy. In the time before the internet, when you needed information, often you would begin by consulting your collection of...
- Mar 1, 2019
TREES, PLEASE: Should I park under that tree?
By Tim Clancy. The disease triangle is often used to illustrate the elements necessary for a pathogen to be successful. The three...
- May 1, 2017
TREES, PLEASE: Queen Palms, Part II: Pests and Diseases
A mystery affliction causes queen palms’ otherwise healthy fronds to collapse. By Tim Clancy. In a recent article, we discussed the...
- Mar 1, 2017
TREES, PLEASE: Queen Palms, Part1: Growth Habit, Fertilizer, and Pruning
By Tim Clancy. Queen palms (Syagrus romanzoffianum) are popular ornamental “trees.” They are planted so frequently that some in the...
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