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Last year, on my way to the California Urban Forestry Conference, as I was shuttled across town to my rental...
Ask any child to draw a city and common images emerge: tall buildings, roads and cars, pavement. However, throughout the...
Standing as the earth’s largest and oldest living monuments, I believe these symbolic trees will take on a greater significance,...
Gardeners now hold earthworms in high regard, but even so, few of us understand the full scope of their role,...
A lack of potential for commercial use may help explain why soldier beetles have been so little studied, despite a...
Whenever I tell someone that I am a botanical artist, the typical reaction is, “you’re a what?” To most people,...
Chamaecyparis lawsoniana is one of the most important conifers in ornamental horticulture. Lawson cypress or Port Orford cedar, as it...
California. They thought it paradise. This was a land still untouched but by the hand of its aboriginal people. Shimmering...
Sudden oak death and oak death syndrome are names given to a recently recognized disease in oaks in central coastal...