Posted on February 16, 2011 at 10:12 am
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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Tags: education, flowering, Plant It Portland, planting, street trees, yard trees
Posted on March 29, 2010 at 3:16 pm
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 [...]
Filed under: Portland Canopy, Tree City Earth, Tree City USA
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Posted on March 22, 2010 at 8:26 am
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 [...]
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Posted on March 15, 2010 at 8:58 am
By Greg Tudor This lovely red-flowered native was introduced into cultivation by the famed botanist David Douglas, and is planted extensively by our Green Space Initiative staff at their restoration events. Need more Friends of Trees connections? This particular specimen occupies a rather prominent position in Executive Director Scott Fogarty’s front yard. –Tudor is the [...]
Filed under: Green Space Initiative, Portland Canopy
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