A few weeks ago I was in New York, and Al Key and I were out and about checking on root barrier sites that he installed back in 1995. We got to meander around Ditmas Park in Brooklyn (a gorgeous neighborhood that always reminds of how I pictured Stingo’s life in “Sophie’s Choice”) and Tompkins… More
London plane trees in Portman Square, London (Kaustav Bhattacharya) The Guardian had a sweet editorial, “In Praise of… the London Plane” recently. We agree that this seemingly ubiquitous street tree deserves some acknowledgment and affection for steadfastly weathering the trash, pollution, noise and stress of urban living.
Friday Follies, I missed you. Thankfully, we’re back, this time with rosemary shortbread. This recipe is not for the faint of heart. I mean that quite literally, as it calls for atrocious amounts of butter. But jaysus, it’s worth it.
Last we checked, the trees in suspended pavement at the Bartlett Tree Lab were doing awesome at 5.5 years. Growing season 6 photos are in and they still look great! (Structural Soil twig on the left, Suspended Pavement twig on the right).
I happened upon this great summary from the Davey Resource Group summarizing the benefits that the state of Indiana receives from their street trees. The report can best be summarized this way: “Statewide, street trees provide Indiana approximately $79 million of annual economic and environmental benefits.”
This blog post is reprinted from Landscape Architecture Resource, where it was originally published in January 2009. Is a street tree a utility? Concern over sustainable design has many developers, designers, and consumers beginning to consider trees as “green utilities.” Advocates of sustainable design are also urging that the integration of other “green utilities” like… More
In areas where it snows and freezes, salting is a frustrating reality of the road. Salt used for melting ice on pavements in northern climates is quite harmful to trees and soil. The most common and least expensive form of ice melting salt is sodium chloride, which is the same salt we put on our… More
This zucchini and olive breakfast loaf is amazing, and dead easy. While zucchini is used as the base of the loaf, it doesn’t taste at all like zucchini or your average (sweet) zucchini bread. It is savory amazing-ness. Go make it immediately. And now to the main part of today’s program, a technical memorandum from… More
Every so often I’ll read a take on an important and relevant topic that means well, but just leaves me scratching my head. Such was the case with a recent article in Toronto’s The Star about planting street trees. Let’s start with the title, “Tree-Lined Streets Not Worth the Cost, Arborists Say” — eeeek!
Back to laboring over here at Deep Root HQ. Mike James, of Deep Root Canada Corp., snapped this picture in Vancouver over the weekend. Looks like an group called the Stick Shift Project — “a collaborative act of urban transformation” — has taken the engines and other guts out of four cars and replaced them… More
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