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The Official Blog of Our City Forest offers gardening advice, tree care tips, arborist and urban forestry facts from multiple contributors. The Our City Forest Blog also shares stories from our community of volunteers and our AmeriCorps service members' experiences. 

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Plants, Part 6: Hormonal Horticulture

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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Plants, Part 6: Hormonal Horticulture

January 22, 2016

Welcome back to Everything You Wanted to Know About Plants. Last time I talked to you about how palms are sneaky devils that trick you with their woody wiles into believing that they are trees like any self-respecting pine, oak or maple

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