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...

Tree Mutilation For Fun And Profit By Tim Clancy, for Let's Talk Plants! March 2022. For me, tree pruning falls into three general...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trees add to our enjoyment of our daily living. Providing habitat for local fauna, screening from annoying situations, they are harvested fo

By Tim Clancy. Sometimes government agencies get it right. In other cases, government regulations seem arbitrary, over-reaching and...

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...

By Tim Clancy. In the time before the internet, when you needed information, often you would begin by consulting your collection of...

By Tim Clancy. The disease triangle is often used to illustrate the elements necessary for a pathogen to be successful. The three...

A mystery affliction causes queen palms’ otherwise healthy fronds to collapse. By Tim Clancy. In a recent article, we discussed the...

By Tim Clancy. Queen palms (Syagrus romanzoffianum) are popular ornamental “trees.” They are planted so frequently that some in the...