May 1TREES, PLEASE! Tiki Carved TreesBy 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 1TREES, PLEASE! Tree Mutilation For Fun And ProfitTree Mutilation For Fun And Profit By Tim Clancy, for Let's Talk Plants! March 2022. For me, tree pruning falls into three general...
Jan 1TREES, PLEASE: Petrified Wood In North CountyBy 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, 2021TREES, PLEASE! Diamonds Are Not A Palm’s Best FriendBy 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, 2021TREES, 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, 2021TREES, PLEASE! The Silk OakBy 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, 2021TREES, PLEASE! Aesop And His Tree FablesBy 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, 2021TREES, 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, 2021FROM THE ARCHIVES: Trees, Please! - Premature ObituaryOn 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, 2020TREES, 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, 2020TREES, 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, 2020TREES, 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, 2020TREES, PLEASE! Dead as a DoornailIn 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, 2020TREES, 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, 2019TREES, 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, 2019TREES, PLEASE: Pruning Perils: Trees Have a Mind of Their OwnBy 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, 2019TREES, 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, 2019TREES, 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, 2017TREES, PLEASE: Queen Palms, Part II: Pests and DiseasesA mystery affliction causes queen palms’ otherwise healthy fronds to collapse. By Tim Clancy. In a recent article, we discussed the...
Mar 1, 2017TREES, PLEASE: Queen Palms, Part1: Growth Habit, Fertilizer, and PruningBy Tim Clancy. Queen palms (Syagrus romanzoffianum) are popular ornamental “trees.” They are planted so frequently that some in the...