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(Image source) https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2024/2/23/plant-communities-of-santa-clara-county monthly 0.5 2024-03-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/96b5b1eb-a455-4b47-bd36-519b4e1b5ecd/image1.png BLOG - Plant Communities of Santa Clara County - Make it stand out Serpentine Chaparral overlooking San Francisco (Image source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/29500995-60ef-4703-b685-68e2c0cc6674/image14.jpg BLOG - Plant Communities of Santa Clara County - Make it stand out (image source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1ef07a2a-4306-43f2-a1c1-9ba00e900828/image2.jpg BLOG - Plant Communities of Santa Clara County - Make it stand out (Image Source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/558c9319-ac3b-4974-a545-54e023100c5d/image9.png BLOG - Plant Communities of Santa Clara County - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1302ddc3-f232-4680-80c4-6be588f11e99/image7.png BLOG - Plant Communities of Santa Clara County - Make it stand out (image source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/772b9e5f-f190-4e19-8a64-a43da63f2aba/image11.png BLOG - Plant Communities of Santa Clara County - Make it stand out (image source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/bd926fff-b303-4082-877f-f2d33d4419c0/image5.png BLOG - Plant Communities of Santa Clara County - Make it stand out Serpentine Grasslands at Calero County Park (image source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/b51f481b-94a9-4a50-873d-a8e9df85c2ba/image4.png BLOG - Plant Communities of Santa Clara County - Make it stand out (image source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/cbc909dd-5571-4d1e-906b-b1fe7bddec05/image3.png BLOG - Plant Communities of Santa Clara County - Make it stand out (image source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/8340cc3b-9412-495e-a3b1-0dcf8b502dc3/image12.jpg BLOG - Plant Communities of Santa Clara County - Make it stand out Oak woodlands at Coyote Lake - Harvey Bear Ranch County Park (image source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/e899cdda-cde6-4a84-9365-fe5aa6335ce6/image8.png BLOG - Plant Communities of Santa Clara County - Make it stand out (image source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/d9a8d0bd-32c5-4bc0-af22-2c6e6f21b695/image6.png BLOG - Plant Communities of Santa Clara County - Make it stand out (image source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1df4b371-41c5-4bab-9372-cb872c66cfb8/image13.png BLOG - Plant Communities of Santa Clara County - Make it stand out Coyote Creek is a critical wildlife corridor in Santa Clara County (image source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/ab4fdc5f-ee01-46e3-9dc5-c48cde899293/image21.png BLOG - Plant Communities of Santa Clara County - Make it stand out (image source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/14cf6de4-1e14-40a9-a30e-e6c3d0dc94c3/image20.png BLOG - Plant Communities of Santa Clara County - Make it stand out (Image source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/81653566-0bdd-4e69-b418-42d3c83a8644/image16.png BLOG - Plant Communities of Santa Clara County - Make it stand out Mt. 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Plant Communities of Santa Clara County - Make it stand out (image source) https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2024/2/2/trees-and-wetlands-world-wetlands-day-2024 monthly 0.5 2024-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/a9542708-ae9d-436b-8975-93b8d1ef8e23/image2.png BLOG - Trees and Wetlands- World Wetlands Day 2024 - Make it stand out Wetlands and the Diablo Mountain Range (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/40fde599-5f9a-4e11-8286-41d82993be5c/image4.png BLOG - Trees and Wetlands- World Wetlands Day 2024 - Make it stand out Tule (Schoenoplectus acutus var. occidentalis) (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/6a248fc5-d0b1-467d-9009-521abda25c06/image3.png BLOG - Trees and Wetlands- World Wetlands Day 2024 - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/ea601e9b-730a-4196-9552-b2cbf0cfcec8/image6.png BLOG - 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Natives Take Root at Our City Forest's New Native Garden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1525483467520-IDGI5QYC54JMPHLJ9V5A/IMG_20180504_115652.jpg BLOG - Natives Take Root at Our City Forest's New Native Garden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1525483678127-0JTFULS6DR5W13MMZAW3/IMG_20180504_115639.jpg BLOG - Natives Take Root at Our City Forest's New Native Garden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1525483847574-8E9IBV86EN7MCCE0LI8O/IMG_20160825_095101740.jpg BLOG - Natives Take Root at Our City Forest's New Native Garden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1525483938632-GVPS1TY4I2TSD3O346I9/IMG_20170718_121657.jpg BLOG - Natives Take Root at Our City Forest's New Native Garden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1525484247103-AZ93SJCAM9XKJH50LID1/IMG_20171117_110518.jpg BLOG - Natives Take Root at Our City Forest's New Native Garden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1525483886428-LYLZAIBVBXHK3G9I50PL/IMG_20171209_103850.jpg BLOG - Natives Take Root at Our City Forest's New Native Garden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1525483967388-OXYVF12XYZFA56G0BNL4/IMG_20180426_122749.jpg BLOG - Natives Take Root at Our City Forest's New Native Garden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1525483976976-6EZO02SEA1UURQAW7K19/IMG_20180504_113657.jpg BLOG - Natives Take Root at Our City Forest's New Native Garden https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2018/1/26/history-of-our-city-forests-community-nursery-part-1 monthly 0.5 2018-01-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1517011359707-A7RA3OJEQ3JDI6C7WJOV/WATSON-PARK-TREE-BANK-2.jpg BLOG - History of Our City Forest’s Community Nursery, Part 1 The beginning of the Watson Park Tree Bank shade structure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1517011484846-RW19GC077CANHWFRJ0YG/WATSON-PARK-TREE-BANK-1.jpg BLOG - History of Our City Forest’s Community Nursery, Part 1 The Watson Park Tree Bank shade structure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1517011579497-EYVLV0MJKFW44R2SE1BN/History+Park+Tree+Bank.png BLOG - History of Our City Forest’s Community Nursery, Part 1 The Kelly Park Tree Bank. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1517011758129-ZPADCFVZEJ9CLR3HNRSN/OCF-TEAM-KELLY-PARK-TREE-BANK-2008.jpg BLOG - History of Our City Forest’s Community Nursery, Part 1 The OCF Team at the Kelly Park Tree Bank in 2008. https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2017/10/3/the-amazing-resilience-of-weeds-a-review-of-richard-mabeys-weeds-in-defense-of-natures-most-unloved-plants monthly 0.5 2017-10-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1507052299207-45GE213VUTF2HW05JVWJ/kudzu+vine.jpg BLOG - The Amazing Resilience of Weeds: A Review of Richard Mabey’s "Weeds: In Defense of Nature’s Most Unloved Plants" Kudzu vine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1507052329184-00VYA9FZRKZ7QKSXVHK4/Bindweed.JPG BLOG - The Amazing Resilience of Weeds: A Review of Richard Mabey’s "Weeds: In Defense of Nature’s Most Unloved Plants" Bindweed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1507052360392-NJGMZPO5JGJ5E4Y78IAY/Foxtail.jpg BLOG - The Amazing Resilience of Weeds: A Review of Richard Mabey’s "Weeds: In Defense of Nature’s Most Unloved Plants" Foxtail.   https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1507052408924-PQFPCGC11MHNBF8SNR0V/Field+Infested+with+Palmer+Amaranth.jpg BLOG - The Amazing Resilience of Weeds: A Review of Richard Mabey’s "Weeds: In Defense of Nature’s Most Unloved Plants" Field infested with Palmer amaranth. https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2017/5/1/keeping-the-municipal-forest-healthy monthly 0.5 2017-05-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1493665843580-M0P20MTRJGA04LPMEQT9/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Keeping the Municipal Forest Healthy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1493665923676-9J8OL85EAHGXB6179I96/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Keeping the Municipal Forest Healthy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1493665448580-L34I10H4EJ3BVK7VG1T0/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Keeping the Municipal Forest Healthy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1493665323051-DOG4NCHNX4EPSOUDY7C3/image-asset.png BLOG - Keeping the Municipal Forest Healthy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1493665967722-8AJN9B4JAY4AH1KEO1YJ/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Keeping the Municipal Forest Healthy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1493666027821-H76EAKPJOFFCSC4GIVOJ/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Keeping the Municipal Forest Healthy https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2017/4/10/sheet-mulching monthly 0.5 2024-04-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1491848536283-B1ISAYWRJBNAPIEW37ZX/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Sheet Mulching: Eco-friendly Weed Control https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1491847091226-1FG17XNS9PBEC2LHDW87/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Sheet Mulching: Eco-friendly Weed Control https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1491847242040-RKFFH7TGO4DUTM5GX9PH/image-asset.png BLOG - Sheet Mulching: Eco-friendly Weed Control https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1491845100944-NY7XTHVRCT0KBTRXXIVD/sheetMulching_graphicOnly.jpg BLOG - Sheet Mulching: Eco-friendly Weed Control Click for detailed infographic PDF with steps. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1491847135342-JJC1RRT9DIXHWBASCXXQ/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Sheet Mulching: Eco-friendly Weed Control https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1491847628063-DQHD8RD49HPPELEJ67CE/image-asset.png BLOG - Sheet Mulching: Eco-friendly Weed Control https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2017/3/17/life-as-a-docent-at-the-community-nursery monthly 0.5 2017-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1489777830244-8IFKLTHHLI5UJA11RB3Q/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Life as a Docent at the Community Nursery Sarah Viaggi at OCF's Spring Plant Sale Extravaganza 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1489779022433-SIPV18BHS6H9R7D542QN/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Life as a Docent at the Community Nursery Judi Wilson writing up a receipt for a resident at the Fall Plant Sale Bonanza 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1489778009762-JNKVVUV7GI21NNS57GCS/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Life as a Docent at the Community Nursery Carol Arnoldy talking to residents at the Community Nursery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1489778624797-E90XGU5WG1DOC2FDERC8/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Life as a Docent at the Community Nursery Sarah up front on the right during her Tree Amigo class in Winter 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1489778175449-6LJI7G6E7G3LN8P2PQ13/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Life as a Docent at the Community Nursery Sharon Schuetze at the Community Nursery's open hours. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1489777645460-NJ8AF6LCO7SG54HMMR2V/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Life as a Docent at the Community Nursery Sharon propagating grasses with former AmeriCorps Service Members in 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1489778740842-4KPIHCY8C8M4HI5R4FWX/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Life as a Docent at the Community Nursery Judi Wilson watering trees recently potted at the Community Nursery during bare root season. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1489775209222-4005LNWD6X1IABL4M8JJ/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Life as a Docent at the Community Nursery AIDS Memorial Grove Planting - 1995 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1489775288538-I0IE45NB9R6XI9IMUBZL/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Life as a Docent at the Community Nursery AIDS Memorial Grove - 2009 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1489775382987-FFKFZ6F2Z4C586VQW1DS/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Life as a Docent at the Community Nursery Tree Amigo Carol Arnoldy working in the Greenhouse at the Community Nursery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1489775492631-5WYZK6NK5MIG9F7O1FSX/image-asset.png BLOG - Life as a Docent at the Community Nursery Tree Amigo Sarah Viaggi is presented with a Thank You card by AmeriCorps Service Member Maggie after her successful neighborhood planting in 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1489778261879-V52LVVB7ZAF2DX3VMYFW/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Life as a Docent at the Community Nursery Sharon, on the far left, re-took the Tree Amigo course last winter as a refresher to brush up on her OCF knowledge. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1489777524965-YC005W8LH3LUZGKZLV1R/Tree+Amigos+Judi+and+Carol_Plant+Sale+2016.jpeg BLOG - Life as a Docent at the Community Nursery https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2017/2/16/our-city-forests-site-development-picks-up-steam-at-martial-cottle-park monthly 0.5 2017-03-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1487352747685-PI18AOKT1CKSMFFHWP9F/Martial+Cottle+Park+-+Our+City+Forest+site BLOG - Our City Forest's Site Development Picks Up Steam at Martial Cottle Park https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2017/1/4/the-remarkable-pat-pizzo monthly 0.5 2020-01-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1483559073608-U0199ENPNCZB5XPOAAJ6/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - The Remarkable Pat Pizzo Speaking with Pat about his many fascinating achievements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1483557287524-KK5G70QH95IJ27YOODH8/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - The Remarkable Pat Pizzo Pat has added color and interest to the neighborhood with wild flowers, such as this fine example of Dendromecon harfordii (Island brush poppy). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1483557197946-VOBRIH7AXYEYKU5U6OME/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - The Remarkable Pat Pizzo As of March, 2009, the garden has some 110 different drought-tolerant, neatly-labeled species. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1483557254546-6Z6YI6DWBDH3JCADWFVJ/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - The Remarkable Pat Pizzo 126 native trees line Capitancillos Drive near Pat's home, planted by Oak Canyon residents in cooperation with Our City Forest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1483559155006-OIYO16T1HTJGQQK9RVLT/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - The Remarkable Pat Pizzo Pat with one of the oak trees for which he has proudly cared for nearly 23 years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1483557407369-WEVCIQ1G3UC6E4E9LG4A/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - The Remarkable Pat Pizzo Thanks to Pat's efforts, many trees were saved and restored at the Jeffrey Fontana and TJ Martin Parks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1483557510704-ZKNE3Y6FUWJLPF3IURS3/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - The Remarkable Pat Pizzo Quercus douglasii overlooking the track and football field Branham High School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1483557548072-EAPCF5AKR1G88XJW9ALD/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - The Remarkable Pat Pizzo One of the Branham High School students working with Pat to water trees near the football field. https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/alviso monthly 0.5 2016-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1480906391342-PGPYS35UW6TLQP4VEIAV/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Alviso https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1480906492621-0XHI6Y7I17NP2LX1980S/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Alviso https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1480906590592-H18QDVU0PO7VIOMIVE46/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Alviso https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1480906801057-UR14WLTCCBYERG8SIKSW/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Alviso https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1480906939529-BNR44MHYA6UG5A1OQ7B8/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Alviso https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2016/10/24/the-hidden-lives-of-trees monthly 0.5 2016-10-24 https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2016/7/20/23-of-our-trees-were-cut-down-what-now monthly 0.5 2016-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1469049434241-QIFS5TQFP8CF48D1RPWV/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - 23 of Our Trees Were Cut Down: What Now? Like this, only on a busier road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1469049603135-TP672P8C9SAQGXUAEDHN/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - 23 of Our Trees Were Cut Down: What Now? All of our trees on Meridian were cut like this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1469050892207-21RA5JZUI5FJT0ZEC910/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - 23 of Our Trees Were Cut Down: What Now? Urban forestry is a group effort. You can see the cut trees still in their pots the morning we planted them. https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2016/7/9/valley-carpenter-bees-big-beautiful-thieves monthly 0.5 2016-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1468084962444-3XBJRVLTLXEPRHO2U9DQ/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Valley Carpenter Bees: Big, Beautiful Thieves A female Valley Carpenter pollinates a passion flower. (By Mfield, Matthew Field, - GFDL) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1468084528612-IOUQ5M5OXAI8U4P8QQEI/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Valley Carpenter Bees: Big, Beautiful Thieves A male Valley Carpenter angles in toward a flower. (By Mfield, Matthew Field, GFDL 1.2) https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2016/6/17/why-is-everything-named-humboldt monthly 0.5 2016-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1466814626543-YIRPR3L2EUZHKA2YWSW4/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Why is Everything Named Humboldt? A map of Alexander von Humboldt's expedition through South America (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1466816093234-YYCK5XXF4QIZ2FNOOHFN/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Why is Everything Named Humboldt? A map of the Earth's crust, fissures, volcanic activity, flora and fauna of the Andes produced by Humboldt (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1466816447890-6WZUYW0PKB6IGXRFAFNF/00164017.jpg BLOG - Why is Everything Named Humboldt? Humboldt's isotherm maps laid the foundations for modern climate science and meteorology. (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1466816482733-EZXLWA8KTOOPVHO0RSVR/tableau-physique-2d.jpg BLOG - Why is Everything Named Humboldt? Humboldt produced a number of plant maps against elevation. Here we see plants grouped by genus and species arrayed against the mountain. (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1466816673014-19T4CJB4LH6VE9YMIZB4/img-14.jpg BLOG - Why is Everything Named Humboldt? A more general map of different plant communities in the Andes. Humboldt catalogs the transition between different types of forest, from rainforest to palm forests to pines and beyond the tree line. (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1466816690757-HOK69SJ46NPEGJP23AWC/img-6.jpg BLOG - Why is Everything Named Humboldt? Humboldt often worked with his friend, Goethe, the famous German poet, statesman and scientist. Here they collaborated on Goethe's observations of alpine plants (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1466816447061-GCO3K2JK1YXKG965H1B9/woodbridge-map-1823.jpg BLOG - Why is Everything Named Humboldt? Soon after Humboldt's initial publications, early meteorologists like, William Channing Woodbridge, assembled his findings into early climate maps (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1466819340708-OQFWPA4K3SBPHVVW7AV0/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Why is Everything Named Humboldt? A portrait of a young Humboldt (Public Domain) https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2016/6/14/coral-root-parasite-in-the-redwood-forest monthly 0.5 2016-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1465945437783-R373G5DRPQED1N3OQ6KA/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Coral Root: Parasite in the Redwood Forest By Walter Siegmund - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1465946141167-96M01PQGKWGF6LE5EJ1Y/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Coral Root: Parasite in the Redwood Forest No leaves. Only red flowers. By pverdonk CC 2.0 Non-Commercial https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1465946513404-J4A2V0C9L9J5PHVL44CA/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Coral Root: Parasite in the Redwood Forest Tylophilus, one of the many mycorrhizal fungi that can be parasitized coral root. (By Charles de Mille-Isles, CC 2.0 generic) https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2016/6/2/the-destroyer-of-plants monthly 0.5 2016-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1464908077496-7FX39NUSZV7ONFTW75XO/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - The Destroyer of Plants A memorial to the Irish Potato Famine, caused by Phytophthora infestens (By William Murphy CC 2.0 BY SA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1464986096052-ZBNN32JMZPG7Y6VMPRKS/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - The Destroyer of Plants USFS aerial photograph of Sudden Oak Death in Marin County, caused by Phytophthora ramorum. The disease spreads easily down hills and through neighboring oaks with closely-connected root networks. (source CC 2.0) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1464986586579-OJLXORBEKL9HK72GUVQ9/image-asset.png BLOG - The Destroyer of Plants The life cycle of phytopthora: 1) zoospores swim through moist soil or are carried by flowing water to root hairs. 2) Zoospores shed their swimming flagella and attach to the surface of the plant. 3) Zoospores produce hyphae which 4) burrow between the cells of the plant. 5) The hyphae digest the plant cells by secreting enzymes and effector molecules into the plant cells, causing pockets of dead tissue. Plants will try to wall off the infected area with calloused, suicidal, hypersensitive cells (seen in light brown). 6) Once the hyphae have consumed enough nutrients they will form a sporangium. 7) The sporangium releases zoospore clones, completing the asexual reproduction cycle. Phytophthora are also capable of sexual reproduction. 8) Two compatible phytophthora infect the same plant and burrow toward one another. 9) The hyphae merge and reproduce sexually creating an oospore. 10) Oospores are able to withstand dry conditions. They hitchhike within soil particles picked up by passersby. 11) When the oospore contacts a new plant it will germinate into hyphae to infect a new host. If moistened an oospore can also release zoospores to seek out susceptible plants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1464990878747-D7TK9JWCBYOWU4I0Q0H2/image-asset.png BLOG - The Destroyer of Plants Reported cases of Sudden Oak Death from San Jose to San Mateo and northern Santa Cruz. Made using Oakmapper.org (source) https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2016/5/25/growing-and-taming-the-matijila-poppy monthly 0.5 2016-06-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1464195513189-993AQXR2E4XV6HB5CZJ3/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Growing and Taming the Matijila Poppy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1464196246875-LA7XSRS2720EUWOGWPCM/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Growing and Taming the Matijila Poppy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1464196990699-6NK5USF8Z1TF8OOMSG66/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Growing and Taming the Matijila Poppy By Ghislain118 (Own work) CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2016/5/13/rivers-of-trees-in-the-urban-forest monthly 0.5 2016-05-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1463505544036-ZJGK6NA6GG25VVXFLBMX/Riparian_strip.jpg BLOG - Rivers of Trees in the Urban Forest A forest hugs the banks of a river as it winds through farmland. (By U.S. Department of Agriculture - Public Domain, ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1463507460381-ICO4D86BD67CYAPFARMV/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Rivers of Trees in the Urban Forest A dam towers over Los Gatos Creek, obstructing fish migration. ("Los Gatos Creek below Vasona Lake Dam, by Don DeBold CC 2.0) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1463506427534-JVRWGQCS7MR1WM82U7HA/1200px-Origin_of_the_Los_Angeles_River_in_Canoga_Park.jpg BLOG - Rivers of Trees in the Urban Forest The LA River is formed by the Arryo Calabasas and Bell Creek. The head of the river is encased in concrete. (By Craig Dietrich - Flickr: Origin of the Los Angeles River in Canoga Park, CC BY-SA 2.0, ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1463506181940-0ZT58AKWMGM255IU6AMP/62950354_f5bc3f3622_b.jpg BLOG - Rivers of Trees in the Urban Forest Coyote Creek, one of the most polluted rivers in the Bay Area, flows through San Jose. ("Lots of empties" by Tom Clifton , CC 2.0 Noncommercial) https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2016/5/13/what-is-our-city-forest monthly 0.5 2016-05-13 https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2016/5/4/book-review-introduction-to-water-in-california-2d-edition-2015 monthly 0.5 2016-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1462316338249-FES26P8UE4ZZKYS26A7R/watercali.jpg BLOG - Book Review: INTRODUCTION TO WATER IN CALIFORNIA, 2nd Edition 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1462316698050-RSWSYUNKTBPHWKX8QKQY/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Book Review: INTRODUCTION TO WATER IN CALIFORNIA, 2nd Edition 2015 The Tulare Lake: Von Board of Commissioners on Irrigation, California - David Rumsey Map Collection – Cartography Associates, Gemeinfrei, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1462317972186-8GHDTQ01ULE2FC00QPN3/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Book Review: INTRODUCTION TO WATER IN CALIFORNIA, 2nd Edition 2015 The Smith River where the South Fork Branches off (By Clinton Steeds, CC 2.0 Source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1462318732357-OUNT52HIE5LQ5OYGEI1E/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Book Review: INTRODUCTION TO WATER IN CALIFORNIA, 2nd Edition 2015 The California Aqueduct at the Interstate 205 crossing, just east of Interstate 580 junction (By Ikluft CC 3.0, Source) https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2016/4/29/happy-arbor-day monthly 0.5 2016-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1461884325461-CDU8XVA2UYQA5L7D84OM/image-asset.png BLOG - Happy Arbor Day! The first Arbor Day in the United States, 1872 Nebraska City (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1461885926261-SKM9705IBSOVKDGVGVFZ/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Happy Arbor Day! 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The berries are waiting. By "A Healthier Michigan via a CC 2.0 license" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1459896965109-A2H1JCNVOH1LVXKBDAW7/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? It was the blueberry the entire time. (By Petr Kratochvil, source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1459898796200-I0W4UOZWJNZ2UOUUB7CT/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? Flower anatomy, fruits develop from fertilized ovaries. The tissue surrounding the ovules is the pericarp. (By ProFlowers (website) via a CC 2.0 license) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460051935173-0TPG4528W3G4SBJEJO0K/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? Berries! (Lingonberries by Philip Gabrielsen via CC 2.5) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460053869658-776EBPZIEL4E887SAT5Z/image-asset.png BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? (Original: LadyofHats Derived: Peter coxhead CC BY-SA 4.0) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460052006559-CE6KMPCCN646LTUNY2C9/1024px-Cavendish_banana_from_Maracaibo.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Bananas "I'm eating a giant berry!" My 5 year-old sister once yelled while eating a banana during snack time after I taught her how fruits worked. We got a confused call home. (The Photographer CC 3.0) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460052000873-OF43ZV76TUMDMDFIM2JS/1-12322025464RU1.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Citrus Citrus are berries too, weird berries called "hesperidia", Berries with a rind, albedo and "juicy engorged hairs". (Public Domain) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460052008442-VSUDNH7QUJUZWSCUT9YY/640px-Kiwi_%28Actinidia_chinensis%29_1_Luc_Viatour.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Kiwi Kiwis aren't just birds or New Zealanders, they're also berries. The hairy skin is edible! Woo! (By Luc Viatour: www.Lucnix.be via CC 2.5) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460052019185-VP0T3BL29B00L6D5V265/Cucurbita_moschata_Butternut_squash_seed_cavity_and_seeds.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Squash (Pepos) That's right baby, squashes are just weird berries! Now you can make weird-berry soups and weird berry pies. Weird berries for everybody. (By Julian Fong (Butternut squash) CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460052022405-MVTPVFX2LAOO9J9NPBPV/Bhoot_Jolokia_%28_Ghost_Chili_pepper_%29.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Ghost Chili The hottest berry around and one of the worst smoothie ingredients. Add to a fruit salad for an unpleasant surprise. (Vikramjit Kakati - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460052029732-6IV07LJ9DC38BEU2B0SQ/611px-Grapes_during_pigmentation_2.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Grapes Grapes are berries you can ferment into delicious wine, or enjoy while reclined on a lounge surrounded by palm-fans and Doric columns. (Tomas Castelazo - Own work CC 3.0) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460052030034-XCHKF92WNQPJ6FDVI61H/600px-NRCSHI07018_-_Hawaii_%28716072%29%28NRCS_Photo_Gallery%29.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Tomatoes In spite of the Supreme Court, Congress and popular opinion, tomatoes are berries. (Scott Bauer / Photo courtesy of USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460053579686-NJ63QRZVZV3W0C2R097L/640px-Honeydew.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Honeydew Melons are berries. Yes that means watermelon. (Public Domain) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460052040728-IZ719NVY8YFJYHNGIVIR/1024px-Eggplants.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Eggplant Eggplants are berries. They're also a nightshade and closely related to tobacco and tomatoes. (By liz west from Boxborough, MA (eggplant) CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460054078218-3UIKOSBCV0N5LOR3SCY4/image-asset.png BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? Drupe anatomy as drawn by the Public Domain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460055592095-E42LK5JGYE04E5FR3Y7S/640px-Autumn_Red_peaches.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Peach Peaches in many ways are the "type case" for drupes with a fleshy, mesocarp, obvious, stony endocarp and thin epicarp. (Jack Dykinga, USDA - This image was released by the Agricultural Research Service, the research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460055727879-46RIE2V1RXKDWR8JS3JQ/800px-Black_cherry_1.JPG BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Cherries If you've ever had to sit down and pit individual cherries for a pie or tart you'll become very acquainted with their drupe nature. (Public Domain) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460055935992-Y4XHUE68EMH953VUR5I6/Mango_in_supermarket_colombia_mb.JPG BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Mangos The best kinds of lassis are made with mango but best leave out the stony pit. (By Mark Benecke (Mark Benecke) [CC BY-SA 3.0 ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460055956200-7YI7W3SDX3LN7N7U9P83/fruit-386594_1280.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Apricots Like peaches, apricots are pretty obvious drupes. Unlike peaches, you can use the pits for sweetening things or making amaretto. (Public Domain) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460056396726-22Q497IBCLIMFJRMNQDG/4268223207_e8802fa3e1_z.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Coconuts It's a false nut that grows on a false tree. In many ways the coconut is the most duplicitous fruit. (Horia Varlan via CC 2.0) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460059063428-3FP4E269JW9RG1TSN3FC/640px-Green_almonds.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Almonds It's hard to see on a store-bought almond but the part you eat is actually the seed inside the hard endocarp. It's shelled for your convenience. (Public Domain) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460059321903-Y53QD4PFIHK77LT3RP9S/1024px-Walnut%27s_Home.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Walnuts Walnuts are drupes in the same way that coconuts are. The mesocarp is fibrous, like a coconut, but flakes off after the green epicarp is opened. (By Takkk (Own work) CC BY-SA 3.0) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460054926369-51TZ6QNAVPV90PHAWHOK/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? Grains are fruit!? (Fir0002 - Own work CC BY-SA 3.0) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460060623671-SQTKZ431E4P32BK71QQE/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? Apples are pomes, but not the only pomes. (Scott Bauer, USDA - This image was released by the Agricultural Research Service, the research agency of the United States Department of Agriculture, Public Domain) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460060905601-UI5G4C6NWEHOX6XOL6TX/Pome_apples_text.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Apples: The Type Pome Here we can see the layers of the apple, labeled. The ovary forms the interior and the floral parts provide most of the edible flesh. (By Eric Guinther.Marshman at en.wikipedia (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460061061233-WOP0EC1E2Z9XBRNBGE1I/675px-Loquat-0.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Loquat Loquats are delicious pomes from East Asia. You can have them as cider, as jam and fresh! Look for them at an Asian Food Market. (Aftabbanoori - Own work CC BY-SA 3.0) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460061093317-75HW4V82PXI7XMVYYMFV/553px-Medlar_pomes_and_leaves.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Medlar Medlars can be found in southwest Asia and southeastern Europe along the coasts of the Black Sea. Medlar ripen in the winter and are initially bitter and hard. Once softened they can be turned into something that tastes like applesauce or turned into "medlar cheese" (By Andrew Dunn CC 2.5) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460061238087-EEW4R3TRSZPOGQXC8JZS/Pears.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Pears I'm pretty sure you know pears. They're like apples and can be made into sauces, jams, cider and even simmered in red wine. (Keith Weller - USDA, Image Number K5299-1. Public Domain) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460061368545-DKV0VKNKFT6R9JC8ZK7N/647px-Quince.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Quince Like medlars, quinces are usually bitter and difficult to eat raw. Once "frost ripened" they are sweet and easily turned into jams or wines. Marmalade is actually a quince jam. (By Donovan Govan, own work, CC BY-SA 3.0) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460061413182-M5OWHGZABHZBCVWL0ATZ/Sorbus_species.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Toyon A local favorite of birds and small mammals, toyons are actually not berries; they're tiny pomes with tiny cores. Toyon are edible but bitter and require special preparation. We take no responsibility if you try them. (By First Light (talk) CC BY 3.0,) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460062758040-0JSTGN9MODQIAO1FC76M/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? Chestnuts are the most honest nuts in that they are both botanical and culinary nuts. (By Fir0002 - Own work, GFDL 1.2) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460062970785-G1FJ1NMH4IJ785LORO5H/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? Hazlenuts are another honest nut. (by Simon A. Eugster via a CC 3.0) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460063412120-D5SE1RJUMJHOQ4EMXMMW/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? All the lonely legumes, where do they all come from? (By Keith Weller, Agricultural Research Service, USDA [Public domain) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460063898621-IC1NQ5TPZU8SWFSM09BX/640px-Tamarindus_indica%2C_leaves%2C_pod.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Tamarind Like Indian food? You've probably eaten savory tamarind in chutney, curry or rice. Tamarind sweetens over time and can be made into ice cream. (By Tauʻolunga - Own work CC BY-SA 3.0) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460063892222-87GDHGW8LL4B2ICS4RKR/640px-Opened_Peanut_BNC.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Peanut A well-known false nut, the peanut is amazing salted and even better in peanut butter or stir fry. Their high-calorie content and protein make them excellent components in UN-sponsored anti-malnutrition efforts. (By Prathyush Thomas - Own work GFDL 1.2) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460063900719-OD6HP4BJC987OOWYUYCC/556px-Peas_in_pods_-_Studio.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Peas By now, anybody reading this blog and I are like peas in a pod. Peas in the pod of fruit-based madness. You wanna eat peas porridge with me, dear reader? (Bill Ebbesen - Own work CC BY-SA 3.0) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460063912690-6CWDFOR3JBP0SJPQYBY5/1024px-Mesquite_legumes.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Mesquite Mesquite isn't super edible when moist, but once dry the beans can be ground into meal for seasoning or to make tasty cakes and breads. (By ZooFari (Own work) CC BY 3.0 ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460063916642-W0D6ZKZF72DKOZ8ND2E2/1024px-Popping_beans_%28Phaseolus_vulgaris%29.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? - Common Bean Common beans, AKA kidney beans, black beans, white beans, "popping beans", and many others. Chances are, if you're eating a bean, you're eating one of these.   (By Crops for the Future- Michael Hermann CC BY-SA 3.0 ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460065020649-PN0UIZ15ZPLHB1T55K6R/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? The strawberry, or should I say "straw achene accessory fruit". ( David Monniaux - Own work CC BY-SA 3.0) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460065241253-8Z6LWSGGE20KKFU3G2HO/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? Maple helicopters, a winged achene. (By nlitement (Own work) CC-BY-SA-3.0 ) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460065454725-M0NU4FOTJPBSGKBMSOEB/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? Aggregate "blackberries" are actually clusters of drupes multi-ovary flowers. (Ragesoss - Own work CC BY-SA 3.0) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1460065659795-7HXELZF7O87XJZICUWJL/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 7: When is a Berry a Berry? Pineapples are the most famous multiple fruit. Each cell is from an individual flower that develops into a massive fruit. (By Taken byfir0002 | flagstaffotos.com.au GFDL 1.2,) https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2016/3/30/the-forest-within-the-forest-the-hidden-world-of-epiphytes-1 monthly 0.5 2016-03-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1459455574721-R5LCLFI3GGLB63AXRGJN/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - The Forest Within The Forest: The Hidden World of Epiphytes Redwoods can develop complex structure, providing additional canopy habitat. (Source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1459451017072-0CG3TWT1VVZW0FXF351V/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - The Forest Within The Forest: The Hidden World of Epiphytes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1459455757143-PQ9KE2YTM6IX8GGX8ACI/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - The Forest Within The Forest: The Hidden World of Epiphytes The wandering salamander another arboreal salamander found in redwoods (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1459455962966-UM2N36BQNLBTX05VTRSV/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - The Forest Within The Forest: The Hidden World of Epiphytes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1459451085986-LFXSNZ1XK2E7I0N82N0P/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - The Forest Within The Forest: The Hidden World of Epiphytes https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2016/3/18/g9oz9bqrppua47z8ld2blrvd2vpjci monthly 0.5 2016-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1458333015878-9R6M0AJO1HTQYFMASC0Q/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - 5 Things to Watch Out For to Prevent Tree Failures Hark! The rare advice bird! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1458340271091-8KINVLE6E3H604FM3S9S/image-asset.png BLOG - 5 Things to Watch Out For to Prevent Tree Failures The only moving tree you should see is Treena. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1458334946487-30FOP9L8PR9XDD3DZ86L/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - 5 Things to Watch Out For to Prevent Tree Failures Decay, like this, is a sure sign that a tree is in danger of failing. (Source: James Bowe under CC) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1458335599218-AOBHPX4SSS5OFCT8P5N4/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - 5 Things to Watch Out For to Prevent Tree Failures Fungi like this can indicate a problem within the tree. (Source: Newbiggin Hall Scouts under a CC license) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1458336718537-MF9JTHU019XVAXII7XHB/cracks BLOG - 5 Things to Watch Out For to Prevent Tree Failures Do these look safe? No? That's because they aren't. (Source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1458337356710-ZY0LX9TM064IBU4JQWSH/oak_girdling_root.jpg BLOG - 5 Things to Watch Out For to Prevent Tree Failures Girdling roots are a serious problem that can cause the death of a tree. (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1458338384334-0B9KKRM7I7P2MGJZ51AS/Included+bark BLOG - 5 Things to Watch Out For to Prevent Tree Failures Note the vertical crack between the branch and trunk. Bark is growing between the branch and stem. (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1458338678411-BZR4B6D3LR6PKTQI90CV/image-asset.png BLOG - 5 Things to Watch Out For to Prevent Tree Failures (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1458339710076-XK8FL25LPRWGDCHI58F2/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - 5 Things to Watch Out For to Prevent Tree Failures This canker was caused by a vehicle collision. https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2016/2/25/african-american-scientists-environmentalists-and-activists-you-should-know-part-2 monthly 0.5 2016-02-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1456504669259-20K0UGG9NOFQCBTSVWEE/african-36432_960_720.png BLOG - African American Scientists, Environmentalists and Activists You Should Know (Part 2) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1456508717481-LWJAHPYVE4A98F13KM0Q/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - African American Scientists, Environmentalists and Activists You Should Know (Part 2) Dr. Gillian Bowser (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1456507733015-QO2ETH0ZHM35B89GAZHD/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - African American Scientists, Environmentalists and Activists You Should Know (Part 2) Dr. Bowser during the Yellowstone Fires of 1988 (source and correction) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1456508580210-52LJ3NJBZOWGX76XALV0/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - African American Scientists, Environmentalists and Activists You Should Know (Part 2) John Francis: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1456509539283-UU2O8N2OBT1P8ASTOHA3/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - African American Scientists, Environmentalists and Activists You Should Know (Part 2) The Rappahannock River at sunset. (CC 2.0 (source)) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1456509935440-QAE4BB5P2YQHVDSL791C/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - African American Scientists, Environmentalists and Activists You Should Know (Part 2) The Oregon Standard Oil tanker, afloat and leaking (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1456513880933-55RGF8C5UFI6W5UVYWJR/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - African American Scientists, Environmentalists and Activists You Should Know (Part 2) John Francis on his way to the University of Montana passes through Idaho. (source) https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2016/2/17/four-african-american-scientists-environmentalists-and-activists-you-should-know-part-1 monthly 0.5 2018-01-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1455750986171-2RFUR6A18WSAZVORA6V8/african+american+history+month BLOG - African American Scientists, Environmentalists and Activists You Should Know (Part 1) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1455752939312-OZKYP1XMQL0XNQHIBN9E/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - African American Scientists, Environmentalists and Activists You Should Know (Part 1) Hopefully they'll have exhibits on African American scientists and environmentalists at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. (By AgnosticPreachersKid via Wikimedia Commons) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1455822126222-NXAGHXCWLV2N5GFLF7SE/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - African American Scientists, Environmentalists and Activists You Should Know (Part 1) Majora Carter: Courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1455754181932-Z6RHTOMMWHMMWC203DQ3/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - African American Scientists, Environmentalists and Activists You Should Know (Part 1) An abandoned lot in Hunt's Point turned into an illegal dumping ground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1455755054223-R0Y6LYRJ2WYZ0UTMF57P/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - African American Scientists, Environmentalists and Activists You Should Know (Part 1) That same abandoned lot in 2007, now a the beautiful Hunts Point Riverside Park (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1455821936174-MJGKAQWIQZOA9C8FJRC9/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - African American Scientists, Environmentalists and Activists You Should Know (Part 1) O’Neil Ray Collins: Public Domain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1455823459085-1SD9G28IJ1DB2MQQ3ZIE/image-asset.png BLOG - African American Scientists, Environmentalists and Activists You Should Know (Part 1) Plaisance is also the seat of the oldest and longest-running Zydeco festival, a creole musical genre that surged in popularity during Collin's childhood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1455824314077-QUD018U4ALPZOXMS0P6Y/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - African American Scientists, Environmentalists and Activists You Should Know (Part 1) The iconic Old Iowa State Capitol Building sits at the center of the University of Iowa campus By Vkulikov CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1455830574793-AW8AR6UTJE5BA8OU2T6I/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - African American Scientists, Environmentalists and Activists You Should Know (Part 1) Dr. Collins arrived on campus during an upwelling of student protests. (source) https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2016/2/3/two-days-in-the-life monthly 0.5 2016-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1454522484085-DUTF33D898NSFP6ZOFTG/Lawn+Buster BLOG - Two Days in the Life of a Lawn Buster Or images of a landscape-focused Ghostbuster armed with some sort of defoliating proton pack. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1454522925373-30GQLADJ5XEXUCJ60NL8/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Two Days in the Life of a Lawn Buster Like this only with considerably more mulch- "Bodie ghost town" by PDPhoto.org - Licensed under Public Domain via Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1454523140050-L60LDL1EYS0V712GONFG/Trenching BLOG - Two Days in the Life of a Lawn Buster Trenching: the first and hardest step. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1454523727141-RBUPRN0MXJSNN9QKJ530/aloe BLOG - Two Days in the Life of a Lawn Buster And they grow so beautifully on too. (source, CC) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1454523943651-JEBCYUVWONOM7O6LES4R/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Two Days in the Life of a Lawn Buster A recently-busted landscape sits in the shade of a mature jacaranda tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1454524779769-99SNRV2MPO32W730H2GU/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Two Days in the Life of a Lawn Buster One of our landscapes, a few months after conversion, the native plants are establishing nicely. https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2016/2/3/bare-root-trees-what-are-they-and-how-can-you-help-with-them monthly 0.5 2016-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1454628120022-1PNV1EVUCNAWCELUX1FC/image-asset.png BLOG - Bare Root Trees: What Are They and How Can You Help With Them? One of our AmeriCorps Service Members pulls a bare root tree for root pruning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1454534784041-94HTPDTDIT4IEQ2DJ74K/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Bare Root Trees: What Are They and How Can You Help With Them? AmeriCorps Service Members potting up bare root trees with volunteers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1454536035697-P4V87F45577PCV5TLDJT/Chinese+Fringe BLOG - Bare Root Trees: What Are They and How Can You Help With Them? Chinese Fringe in bloom, one of the lovely species we have in our Nursery stock By Tanaka Juuyoh [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2016/1/29/w4p4udrhn7mfyj7yuja0atvgjliqgy monthly 0.5 2016-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1454093309766-VPLAWSDELXZHMEGKK9G9/Oh+god+why BLOG - Don't Top That Tree! Here's 5 Steps for Safe, Structural Pruning Pictured: What you will not be doing by following our pruning methods. Seriously this is the worst. (By Marrante (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)], via Wikimedia Commons) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1454093696040-THX9CEXY17F5WRHYTL8W/Winter%21 BLOG - Don't Top That Tree! Here's 5 Steps for Safe, Structural Pruning Winter Wonderlands are the best time to go a-pruning. (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1454093953149-OAWN9D3GLV73KXLJ4NN1/Broken+Branch BLOG - Don't Top That Tree! Here's 5 Steps for Safe, Structural Pruning Damaged branches should be removed before any other pruning is done. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1454095426155-HF9JMMZJLE8910EQ1TI9/image-asset.png BLOG - Don't Top That Tree! Here's 5 Steps for Safe, Structural Pruning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1454095946910-DMH2IM09W06MEFC3WZWA/Find+the+central+leader BLOG - Don't Top That Tree! Here's 5 Steps for Safe, Structural Pruning Sometimes it can be difficult to decide on a central leader. In that case just use your best judgement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1454100856213-30UBOX0TJ39UTZ3Y8GE4/identifying+competing+branches BLOG - Don't Top That Tree! Here's 5 Steps for Safe, Structural Pruning Identifying competing branches is necessary to maintain strong central leaders and good structure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1454100914757-2FZTZUXYI3Q52Y1RHMUI/image-asset.png BLOG - Don't Top That Tree! Here's 5 Steps for Safe, Structural Pruning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1454101246420-PRV8CM4E4PPRNEV5LH5J/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Don't Top That Tree! Here's 5 Steps for Safe, Structural Pruning Cutting away a branch with included bark that's growing just slightly too close to the sidewalk will save this tree from damage and tearing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1454102267301-FM3IE11OB5NB5029XM85/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Don't Top That Tree! Here's 5 Steps for Safe, Structural Pruning Sometimes you need extra reach to clip crossing or close branches in the canopy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1454102452238-1MBXEY0JBTU4F0SJSBWF/image-asset.png BLOG - Don't Top That Tree! Here's 5 Steps for Safe, Structural Pruning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1454102605304-2U6H9ABL6W04EUEPJYF9/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Don't Top That Tree! Here's 5 Steps for Safe, Structural Pruning Branches lower than the lowest permanent branch that exceed 1/3 of the trunk's width should be removed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1454103255072-YKVK14D7739N0X8TYR99/image-asset.png BLOG - Don't Top That Tree! Here's 5 Steps for Safe, Structural Pruning Big branches should be cut with a saw using the above method to avoid damaging the tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1454102890109-KZJANNE5ZZCR6SCXJKG8/image-asset.png BLOG - Don't Top That Tree! Here's 5 Steps for Safe, Structural Pruning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1454103095702-U9GX3QYN87QLKT13CUL1/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Don't Top That Tree! Here's 5 Steps for Safe, Structural Pruning Tree topping has the added benefit of looking hideous in addition to nearly killing your tree. https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2016/1/22/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-plants-part-6-hormonal-horticulture monthly 0.5 2016-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1453502363625-X7UXBY29WPAPC8ILSJDG/Adonis+vernalis BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Plants, Part 6: Hormonal Horticulture Look at all that beautiful, complex organization, courtesy hormones and the artistic hand of Walther Müller and Carl Friedrich Schmidt (*1812), (Published in Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen - Public Domain) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1453502922147-019PH7DSYZWWG62RZ872/image-asset.gif BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Plants, Part 6: Hormonal Horticulture Aw yeaaah. Let's get phytohormonal. (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1453503682155-6DHB34C4UESOHR9B975H/Auxin+and+strawberries BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Plants, Part 6: Hormonal Horticulture If you take the auxin-producing seeds off of strawberries they grow weird, or not at all. (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1453504235969-KYN4WRUD25SE6D4MCG3P/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Plants, Part 6: Hormonal Horticulture This is what it looks like when cytokinin runs rampant without an auxin to say "slow down". (Source: By William M. Gray - Gray WM (2004) Hormonal Regulation of Plant Growth and Development. PLoS Biol 2(9)) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1453505263266-SIEQQZWGYEFKKRZ3NZ65/gibberellin BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Plants, Part 6: Hormonal Horticulture Without gibberellins you get dwarf, stunted plants. (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1453506225168-PAR8I6ZVWH7JBIGMMNO5/Wax+Abba+ABA BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Plants, Part 6: Hormonal Horticulture These wax ABBA statues are neither ABBA nor ABA. (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1453506875683-Q4V2NT95N2RDSLV55QS9/ripening-tomatoes-edit.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Plants, Part 6: Hormonal Horticulture Ethylene induces ripening from the oldest fruits, gradually diffusing outward (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1453507251423-YNN2IE92OCAE1ZTVSKAB/strawberryripe.gif BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Plants, Part 6: Hormonal Horticulture Ethylene, Auxin and Gibberellins working together to ripen a strawberry. (source) https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2016/1/13/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-plants monthly 0.5 2016-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1452720068391-QWRORBYQX0DJGV04DDQD/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 5: Palmistry They're almost as beautiful as they are deceptive "Sunset with coconut palm tree, Fiji" by Andrew Mandemaker - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.5 via Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1452721403272-44PN93YGN5BAPKI1DO2V/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 5: Palmistry A beautiful palm forest with no trees in sight. "Abaiang top view" by Flexman - Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1452720631199-S00ZP9ZOBSLUEWY7S9P3/image-asset.png BLOG - Everything You Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 5: Palmistry I'm not insane for thinking this looks like a paint brush right? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1452722346244-P2R9M6ALFRDAX6Y4LJ7E/18999947623_8c54a9b523_z.jpg BLOG - Everything You Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 5: Palmistry No growth rings inside of palm trunks but there are overlapping leaf scars in the pseudobark layer. You can also see the clusters of vascular tissue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1452723119915-B25AQ9YD1SHVHJ9J9TKR/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 5: Palmistry Pictured: A piece of rebar driven through a palm tree in a hurricane. Palm trees are strong enough to withstand winds that would snap most trees during hurricanes but their distributed vascular tissue means this tree will never close the wound. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1452723525188-4LVMTKY0VAUB4J37YGFI/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 5: Palmistry Imagine trying to individually clip all these autumn leaves. Clipping your annual leaf fall is only possible in palms. By Luca Mengoni (Flickr: 108) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1452724393646-ZP6OOI6UYL3V3W906ZIJ/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 5: Palmistry Just toss that tree on the back of your truck man. The shallow root structure also makes them susceptible to theft (note: not actual theft in the picture). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1452725372608-CMBGNMMKOP075MQLDWOH/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Wanted To Know About Plants, Part 5: Palmistry A palm fossil courtesy of the US government. (Click through for source) https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2015/12/16/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-plants-part-4-christmas-anatomy monthly 0.5 2016-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1450295581026-3U5KGCB02IZPF18VKK1C/Living+Holiday+Tree BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Plants Part 4: Christmas Tree Anatomy You probably see something like this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1450295497373-314PPHWIRD4KYBKVRGP5/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Plants Part 4: Christmas Tree Anatomy This bird is shocked that pine needles are leaves. Photo by john henderson/iStock / Getty Images https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1450385921980-MP7POL3IPKR9Q9XE861K/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Plants Part 4: Christmas Tree Anatomy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1450388074141-PTF8NC6KU4PBPAEMY8X9/image-asset.gif BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Plants Part 4: Christmas Tree Anatomy A pair of thin-slices of pine needle under a microscope, stained with dye for contrast. (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1450389794487-ZT6RGN6FBU4VEZZIDAZ5/pine+buds BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Plants Part 4: Christmas Tree Anatomy Possibly something like this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1450393151603-ERJ5BYTGT161J75RTK91/woody+cross+section BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Plants Part 4: Christmas Tree Anatomy A cross-section of a tree trunk. Note the two cambria. (Source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1450394208004-3LMFYDYV9J51GH1F2LCA/woodystemlayers.gif BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Plants Part 4: Christmas Tree Anatomy Cross section of a mature, woody tree (Source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1450394738103-YHU295SF4P87UA45JIMU/Candle+Tree BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Plants Part 4: Christmas Tree Anatomy We at Our City Forest recommend waiting to take the decorations off your tree to look at the heartwood. (Source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1450397824922-7AAX91KJ948Y3GMP6AKI/Roots BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Plants Part 4: Christmas Tree Anatomy The root system is like the unseen part of an iceberg. It extends deeper and wider than the visible portion of the tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1450472884839-I4M39W21G8I3BOUF5DV0/root+cross+section BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Plants Part 4: Christmas Tree Anatomy A cross section of a mature tree root. Thanks Wikipedia! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1450472969258-CLNWP5JVVWRJUAE9KXWI/Ficus_macrophylla011.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Plants Part 4: Christmas Tree Anatomy The buttress roots of a Ficus macrophylla tree in Paloma. Roots can get seriously large. (Source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1450475993223-SR209XA5UDT3B2L3VFS3/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Plants Part 4: Christmas Tree Anatomy Wikipedia once again provides an appropriate image. "Big Banyan Tree at Bangalore" by Kiran Gopi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1450473042487-CJOFU7OCO49ZL9B3V3H9/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Plants Part 4: Christmas Tree Anatomy You probably decorated a palm tree... (source) https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2015/12/11/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-plants-part-3-a-forest-to-be-reckoned-with monthly 0.5 2016-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1449958058099-BWU4YBV2BLWPZS1MEQ86/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants Part 3: A Forest to be Reckoned With In the Silurian and early Devonian plants were, essentially, giant mosses that were confined to enormous wetlands. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1449959518953-ZM5DGJ7RPX0F05YB01AT/Protaxtites BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants Part 3: A Forest to be Reckoned With A Devonian landscape as painted by Mary Parrish. Fungal columns dominate a scene clouded by mist and spores. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1450218402660-7JTOMMDO7ZMLSO3YSGMH/Devonian+Forest BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants Part 3: A Forest to be Reckoned With There aren't that many renderings of Devonian early forests. This one, full of giant fungi, primitive trees and pixelation comes from Wikipedia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1450218965080-TW5KKFGB8X7W2JLJG8JG/devonian1.jpg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants Part 3: A Forest to be Reckoned With Insects and other arthropods had already colonized the land. Amphibians wouldn't arrive on the scene until the first wetland forests created safe habitats. By Hannah Bonner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1450219710304-HBTY13S8LJF45ORYQP93/Giant+myriapod BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants Part 3: A Forest to be Reckoned With https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1450220157824-KTB5AZLU9UYWTOMC0T47/meganeura BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants Part 3: A Forest to be Reckoned With For example, the Carboniferous forest ecosystem. It produced enough oxygen to grow giant dragonflies (Meganeura) and millipedes, (Arthropleura) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1450223394306-AKM4N8MHOYP8S01IKI6B/Thanks+Ferns BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants Part 3: A Forest to be Reckoned With Paper greeting card optional. Saying thanks or planting a plant is more than enough. (source) https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2015/12/11/everything-you-wanted-to-know-about-trees-part-2-the-conquest-of-land monthly 0.5 2016-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1449863869091-8USMR0B60F1CTBDVWQMV/The+Difference+Between+Water+and+Land BLOG - Everything You Wanted to Know About Plants Part 2: The Conquest of Land The differences between aquatic and terrestrial habitats are fairly stark as are the pressures they put on natural selection. (Click image for source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1449861348484-PNCDI670MC1YTDMCENM2/Ordovician+Map BLOG - Everything You Wanted to Know About Plants Part 2: The Conquest of Land During the Ordovician, continent-sized shallow seas covered Australia, China, India, parts of Africa, North America and Siberia. Those seas nurtured an explosion of life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1449871070299-LF5WV6KZW2GX8ZCFOGYQ/ordovician.jpg BLOG - Everything You Wanted to Know About Plants Part 2: The Conquest of Land Abundant nutrients and sunlight led to a proliferation of filter-feeders that plucked algae from the water. Source https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1449872240451-J8PNYEQM6MVLE64WV5IX/Nitella BLOG - Everything You Wanted to Know About Plants Part 2: The Conquest of Land Nitella a Charophyte, looks surprisingly like a modern, terrestrial plant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1449872888597-UKG62NCRDXNJD1845LZA/Lichen BLOG - Everything You Wanted to Know About Plants Part 2: The Conquest of Land Future land plants, meet your only neighbors for thousands of miles and millions of years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1449873595836-PGL9LR79P4KC20BWL6G0/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Wanted to Know About Plants Part 2: The Conquest of Land Learning to grow without water on rocks with very little soil, as it turns out, is possible but takes a 100 million years or so to get right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1449874495982-2GD1NWU4Z5XMWFVYI859/RedMoss BLOG - Everything You Wanted to Know About Plants Part 2: The Conquest of Land Our plucky, plant hero has conquered the land but the best is yet to come (Source) https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2015/12/3/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-plants-and-more-part-1 monthly 0.5 2016-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1449179870580-8HX901HSO9YTFDPQ8OH8/autumn+leaves BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants (And More): Part 1 It's hard to believe that this happens every year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1449181206115-EH5DABGYIV540FJ4RZ8Z/Light+though+trees BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants (And More): Part 1 Plants love light after all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1449182457613-18LFEUFNPEUN133BUA7J/image-asset.png BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants (And More): Part 1 From: Leliaert F. et al (2011) Into the deep: New discoveries at the base of the green plant phylogeny https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1449182743122-J7EPLIVKPMNHWFVD2W3D/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants (And More): Part 1 The variety of green algae in the sea is stunning https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1449183215823-DZNVOAQB94ORMKBCTEX5/plant+cell BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants (And More): Part 1 A plant cell. Note the cell wall, vacuole and chloroplasts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1449184519660-UKBQKI0Q4J2WK3JBP7JJ/wilt BLOG - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Plants (And More): Part 1 Wilting is in part caused by a lack of tugor pressure as the leaves lose water. https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2015/11/25/why-rent-a-tree-this-holiday-season monthly 0.5 2016-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1448487120147-VIZL2QX4UYQF4RG3Y9CO/christmas+tree BLOG - Why Rent A Tree This Holiday Season Glade Jul by Viggo Johansen might as well be a family photo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1448487511721-SVOB9FLPYGD7TQXCWD6X/Rockefeller+Center+Christmas+Tree BLOG - Why Rent A Tree This Holiday Season It's hard not to be in awe of a Holiday Tree that dwarfs Prometheus (Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/quintanomedia/) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1448491339641-RPYVP3Y3NCG01ZOR1GBP/o-DEAD-CHRISTMAS-TREE-facebook.jpg BLOG - Why Rent A Tree This Holiday Season The fate of all holiday trees. (source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1448492059263-R2S4XVK6DBSUAYV5C5NS/Bald+Eagle+Landfill BLOG - Why Rent A Tree This Holiday Season A bald eagle nobly surveys the final resting place of the artificial holiday tree. https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2015/11/18/how-the-lawn-grew-across-america-and-why-that-needs-to-change monthly 0.5 2016-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1447968240553-HBTTESO4ATU63DD872AR/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - How the Lawn Grew Across America and Why That Needs to Change The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch circa 1490: The Garden of Eden has a beautiful lawn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1447969105849-JYIQN4R42J9VPW2EIW3Y/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - How the Lawn Grew Across America and Why That Needs to Change Intricately shaped and mowed lawns of the Orangerie in the Palace of Versailles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1447969977895-IMEAV7I1IBDNMT57C1MP/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - How the Lawn Grew Across America and Why That Needs to Change Housing developments in the from 40s onward would perpetuate the ideal, suburban lawn as seen here in an ad for a Levittown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1447970366754-7FV4OXB74PJ9ZQBX2T75/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - How the Lawn Grew Across America and Why That Needs to Change Total lawn surface area of the United States as seen by satellite and aerial photography (source http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Lawn/) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1447971583088-FM1VBJ8RO7F8X8S0T7MF/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - How the Lawn Grew Across America and Why That Needs to Change An algal bloom caused by eutrophication off San Diego. https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2015/11/6/6-things-you-need-to-know-about-trees-if-you-live-in-san-jose monthly 0.5 2024-06-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1446837577332-820Q2J0QK2PORE207EJQ/UrbanForest-24.JPG BLOG - 6 Things You Need To Know About Trees (If You Live in San Jose) A mature, row of street trees makes a neighborhood inviting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1446839708670-3V7KP29PR1DW2WZ38VYL/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - 6 Things You Need To Know About Trees (If You Live in San Jose) Pictured: A damaged tree covered in lights is a fall and fire hazard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1446840048058-IBRWZREM4ROT8FNWVW5D/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - 6 Things You Need To Know About Trees (If You Live in San Jose) Pictured: If left unchecked, encroaching roots can damage sidewalks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1446840547982-HJYR782HUEPPZ7TJF8YD/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - 6 Things You Need To Know About Trees (If You Live in San Jose) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1446844278610-T06E3I0PLK93XQUWOL8A/tree+topping BLOG - 6 Things You Need To Know About Trees (If You Live in San Jose) Pictured: A mulberry tree that has been subject to repeated pruning, (pollarding). Pollarding is a dangerous technique that removes the annual growth of a tree, leaving poor structure and disfiguring scar tissue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1446845941647-R26U90R9MK8CGHK3CALB/pollution BLOG - 6 Things You Need To Know About Trees (If You Live in San Jose) Pictured: What you don't want to be breathing https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/honoring-dave-fadness monthly 0.5 2016-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1446762711428-82DQNWSTELQY1AT3CWWK/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Honoring a Tree Hero https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1446844692616-86PZ59LURXICTV4271MA/image-asset.jpeg BLOG - Honoring a Tree Hero Dave posing with an Our City Forest ready-stake and tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1446825949597-4Q56CLLS4HYYTV3Y70ZS/DaveFadness BLOG - Honoring a Tree Hero Thank you to VEP Neighborhood Association for this great picture of Dave: a tree-mendous volunteer! https://www.ourcityforest.org/blog/2015/10/28/zqtantbirri79dg76ontltcz388i78 monthly 0.5 2016-10-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1446061504511-CO28CKJFSZ5GKL4B4QGM/image-asset.png BLOG - Why Plant Natives? Map of the eastern portion of the Santa Clara Valley as re-constructed by historical ecologists. We see the valley dominated by grassland and valley Oak savanna. From: Grossinger RM, Striplen CJ, Askevold RA, Brewster E, Beller EE (2007) Historical landscape ecology of an urbanized California valley: wetlands and woodlands in the Santa Clara Valley. Landscape Ecol 22: 103–120 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1446062008651-NOI3ZYAINPIB4BI258LB/image-asset.png BLOG - Why Plant Natives? The south eastern portion of the Santa Clara Valley reconstructed by historical ecologists. The oak woodlands of Morgan Hill have been replaced with urban development; the southern alkali meadows no longer exist. From: Whipple AA, Grossinger RM, Davis FW (2011) Shifting baselines in a California oak savanna: nineteenth century data to inform restoration scenarios. 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Notice the Americorps patch on the sleeves? This is an Americorps group from 2013, building trails in Texas. (Licensed under CC 2.0; source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1454608810209-Q8KWPJ2T0D8CXUX3D64J/image-asset.jpeg The Americorps Experience - What is Americorps? A CCC recruitment poster. (Civilian Conservation Corps poster, ca. 1941. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress; source) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/545bbd7ee4b032c1794c4020/1454609289282-MZZWRLV5E274NYWECV22/She-She-She The Americorps Experience - What is Americorps? Workers at a She-She-She Camp partook in group exercises, overseen by staff supervisors. ("FERA, Camp for Unemployed Women, Minnesota - NARA - 195641" by Unknown or not provided - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. 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