Posted on March 10, 2010 at 1:54 pm
These tree tips, specific for the months of March and April, come courtesy of Collier Arbor Care, a Friends of Trees sponsor: Evaluate trees and prune, removing dead wood and maintaining structure Treat early blooming flowering and fruit trees, like peaches, plums, and cherries for disease problems Treat for leaf blight diseases on dogwood, sycamore [...]
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Posted on February 18, 2010 at 1:16 pm
Seven new fruit trees were planted Saturday at the Sabin Neighborhood’s new community orchard. Mayor Sam Adams, along with Commissioner Amanda Fritz, joined the Portland Fruit Tree Project and other volunteers to plant the fruit trees: pear; asian pear; apple; persimmon; fig; plum; and cherry. Supported by a grant from the city of Portland’s Neighborhood [...]
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Posted on February 12, 2010 at 11:30 am
Any presidential historians out there? Despite his axe-wielding abilities, was ‘Honest Abe’ a secret admirer of the Cherry Tree? On President Lincoln’s birthday, let us honor the White Oak, the state tree for his home state of Illinois—even though the president was actually born in what state? –Toshio Suzuki
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Posted on February 9, 2010 at 3:20 pm
In 1939, Al Capone contracted syphilis and commandeered an entire floor of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore for about a week. In thanks, he “planted” two Weeping Cherry Trees. The remaining 70-year-old tree split in two Saturday and is going to need professional care to survive. “I can’t care if Capone was infamous or [...]
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