Jul 1 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 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 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 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...
