Tag: Vancouver Trees
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Catalpas Are Blooming
These maps show where some of the 425 Catalpa bignonioides trees have been planted as boulevard trees in Vancouver. Each green icon shows where a tree is. This map can be generated at https://opendata.vancouver.ca/explore/dataset/public-trees/map. Then you zoom in on the area that interests you. There are many along West 10th Avenue on both sides of…
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The Inside Story
Heartwood, regardless of its romantic name, is dead wood. It’s that stuff we make two-by-fours out of.We age a tree by counting its annual growth rings in both sapwood and heartwood.
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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…