Steve Hendrix’s story in The Washington Post eloquently describes the original “geezer” cherry trees about to “bust a bloom” in Washington, D.C. You’ll love the photos, too. Below is an excerpt from the article: In human years, they are 156 years old. And it shows. You’ll seldom find a more gnarled, knobbed or bent-over bunch [...]
More than a decade of planting trees at Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Health Research By Jim Gersbach Kaiser Permanente took the photo above and the photos in the slide show below at the latest ceremonial planting (February 11, 2011) that Kaiser Permanente does every year in conjunction with our hosting the Overlook neighborhood’s Friends of [...]
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The Japanese Meteorological Agency announced last week that the cherry blossoms in Tokyo were in bloom, officially kicking off the viewing season. For a society that has a phrase in its language (sakura zensen) describing the specific front of warmth that blooms cherry blossoms, this is no small announcement. An excerpt from In Transit, a [...]
By Greg Tudor This lightly fragrant bloom—pictured last week at the Friends of Trees lot—will very slowly become a delicious fruit, most familiar in East Asia. Offered for sale by Friends of Trees and its Neighborhood Trees program for yards and 6- to 8-foot parking strips, this Japanese cultivar introduced in 1972 requires a pollinator [...]
