BEFORE YOU PLANT A TREE BE SURE TO CONSIDER
WHY do you want to plant a tree? For shade? Fruit? Colour? Wind screen?
WILL you have time to nurture the tree (prune, water, fertilize)?
CONFIRM what you are buying – use the latin name.
URBAN TREES
RIGHT TREE IN THE RIGHT PLACE
Trees provide immeasurable benefits to homeowners and the communities in which they live,
delivering cool shade to privacy, beauty, windbreak, water runoff reduction, pollution reduction … and the list goes on.
Identifying a Mystery Tree
The tree’s trunk is braided, fluted, and made of sculptured vertical hills and valleys, some thick.
The moment I see the photograph of the unusual trunk of this mystery tree and I notice the email’s subject—“Tree Identifying Help?”—I am hooked. This is a mystery I want to solve.
The local gardener who wonders which tree species has such a sculptured trunk thinks it might be an alder or a birch tree, because its leaves are oval and serrated. I can’t see leaf detail in the emailed photo. Clearly a puzzle.