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AAA Tree Service | Tip for taking care of the trees in summer
By: Aaa Tree Service
Tags: Tree Care, Tree Service, Tree Trimming, Tree Removal, Trees

Taking care of the trees is necessary as the different seasons come. Different seasons have different impacts on the trees and you have to be ready for everything otherwise will face the consequences. For example, you cannot provide excess water to the trees in winter at the same time, water is the utmost priority in summer as they grow greener and the scorching heat let the trees become thirstier. This is the reason why trees need some special care depending on the seasons as well. If you need your trees to be well enough then can get the quality tree maintenance program from AAA Tree Service.

Now take a look at these tips step by step to take care of the trees in summer.

Start with the mulching

Mulching is very important mostly in summer. Making a layer of wooden chips, straws will maintain the temperature and will keep it cool in the hot summer. So that they will not get dry and according to that you can provide the watering as well. A thick layer of mulch around 3 to 4 inches is the ideal one. Too much mulching can destroy the stem even can rotten them as well. So be careful with that as well.

Watering

Another most important thing you need to focus on is watering. In the summer the soil dries up soon, so you must ready a watering plan beforehand till the summer knocks on the door. So better you stay prepared and water the trees as per the schedule and regularly.

Pruning and trimming

Next is about tree pruning and trimming which another necessity in summer. If you planning for the flower plants or trees that will bloom in spring, then you must prune them in early summer to get the bunch of buds. First, find out the dead leaves, branches, and other damaged or diseases areas and trim them nicely. It will help to boost your tree health. Get help from expert arborists for tree trimming services from AAA Tree Service.

The fertilization

One of the important tips to take care of the trees is fertilization. Never do any experiment with the types of fertilization on the trees without knowing because; they can be harmful to them. Always go for the organic fertilizers which are available in the market. In fact, you can go for the homemade fertilizers

as well. Provide a quality amount of fertilizer, quality means the right amount. Excess fertilizer can damage the inbuilt nutrients in the soil and will increase the level of salt as well which not good for the trees.

Connect with AAA Tree Service and get the plant services, cutting, pruning, replanting budget in Ipswich, Goodna, Shailer Park, Mount Gravatt, Mount Cotton, Springwood, and Gold Coast areas.
Last week my first book got published on Amazon. And this is what triggered it.
By: Sridhar Pai Tonse
Tags: Malleswaram, Bengaluru, Wood Wide Web, Whispering, Trees

Last week my first book got published on Amazon. And this is what triggered it.

On a summer afternoon in 2015, I was driving alone by car along the west coast from Mangalore to Goa. As I reveled at the scenery, I suddenly felt something odd. The next minute, the landscape changed as in a mild earthquake. A massive wave of emotion took over forcing me to stop. The street was silent. The tree in front of me was ablaze with something I had never seen before. It beckoned. Every leaf, branch, and trunk lit up with an unimaginable radiance. I was stunned. It was a transformative moment for me.

Trees speak. And this Neem tree, growing up along the Margosa Road in the mid-1950s in Malleshwaram, has a story of her own. She develops a special affection for Balu, a child next door. This book is her narration.

https://medium.com/illumination/the-whispering-tree-of-bengaluru-2a6ca19fd4d1
The Whispering Tree of Bengaluru
By: Sridhar Pai Tonse
Tags: Bengaluru, Pai, Wood Wide Web, Forest, Trees

The Whispering Tree of Bengaluru

Image: courtesy of the author

Here is my first book. And this is what triggered it.

On a summer afternoon in 2015, I was driving alone by car along the west coast from Mangalore to Goa. As I reveled at the scenery, I suddenly felt something odd. The next minute, the landscape changed as in a mild earthquake. A massive wave of emotion took over forcing me to stop. The street was silent. The tree in front of me was ablaze with something I had never seen before. It beckoned. Every leaf, branch, and trunk lit up with an unimaginable radiance. I was stunned. It was a transformative moment for me.

Trees speak. And this Neem tree, growing up along the Margosa Road in the mid-1950s in Malleshwaram, has a story of her own. She develops a special affection for Balu, a child next door. A wonderful relationship develops between them. Till one day, young Balu leaves the city. She misses the little boy.

Decades later, she narrates her life, their daily battles for survival, an incredible ‘social web’ that keeps the planet alive. And life in old Bengaluru.

What happened to Balu? And to the tree? Did they meet again? What was her life like? What message does she share for humanity?

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree Martin Luther

The story of this book came back to my mind repeatedly in parts last year. There are two things that accelerated the compilation and writing. One was a chance reading of some books on forestry. And the discovery of the social web of the plant kingdom (called the ‘wood wide web’). This became a portal to a new world beneath our feet, under the soil.

How nature engineered a social web over 500 million years to become the transport network carrying minerals and messages to family and friends of the plant kingdom became a mystery. A network that is so sophisticated and complex that it can put our modern net web-scale server farms and transport protocols to shame.

The creation of a thousand forests is in one action Ralph Waldo Emerson

The second trigger was of course the pandemic. Locked down and forced to push the ‘pause’ key of life, generated an organized stream of thoughts that aligned into this book.

It is now available on Kindle and Amazon. Do share your thoughts and comments on the book at stpai2001@gmail.com. If you like the book do share it with your friends.

About the Author: Sridhar covers tech, start-ups, marketing, and shares musings on life. Twitter: Sridhar Pai Tonse
5 Native New Jersey Trees to Beautify Your Yard
By: Joey Phillips
Tags: Landscaping, Home Improvement, Yard Work, New Jersey, Trees

If you live in New Jersey and are looking for ways to make your yard stand out from those around you, picking trees that are native to the state will go a long way in getting your yard top notch. Check out 5 native New Jersey trees to beautify your yard.

Black Maple

A sun lover, the Black Maple is a medium-tall tree that displays vibrant yellow and orange leaves in the fall. It has wider leaves than other species that droop. It needs medium to well-drained soil but is highly resistant to drought conditions. It’s a slow grower but can get up to 75 feet tall.

Yellow Buckeye

The Yellow Buckeye is the perfect shade tree and is good for attracting wildlife. In April-May, beautiful, yellow flowers bloom. Wildlife loves the round buckeye nuts that turn brownish red. In the fall, the leaves turn orange. Needing well to medium drained soil, the Yellow Buckeye does not tolerate drought conditions very well.

Gray Alder

This is a tree that grows quickly but only lives about 40 years. It’s small, growing 15–35 feet. A sun loving tree that does well in partial shade. The Gray Alder is a water-lover needing medium drained, wet soil. It’s a monoecious species, meaning it grows male and female flowers, that are purple and red, on the same plant. It’s flood-tolerant, but doesn’t like drought conditions.

River Birch

The River Birch is great for planting in wetter areas, though it does well in drier places. It has peeling bark that’s a brownish, pinkish color. This is a big tree and has a vast root system so it needs plenty of room. Another quick-growing tree, getting up to 70 feet tall. The leaves are shaped like diamonds and, in the fall, turn yellow.

Eastern Redbud

Growing delicate, edible flowers that are purple, pink and lavender, the Eastern Redbud loves well-drained soil and is highly resistant to drought. It’s a medium-sized tree, growing up to 30 feet tall. A sun-lover, but does good in shade too. The leaves are heart-shaped and turn red, orange, and yellow in the fall.

See What You Can Find

These are just a few examples of native New Jersey trees to beautify your yard. There are plenty more to choose from. And you might be surprised at what you can find. Check local nurseries and see what they have. If you’re not able to find what you’re looking for there, there’s always the good old Internet.
Why My Favourite Tree Makes A Great Life Coach
By: Cali Bird
Tags: Creative Writing, Writing, Motivation, Coaching, Trees

I once did a coaching course with super-coach Michael Neill. He described the process of coaching as follows:

Imagine that you go outside your house and talk to a lamppost on the street. You tell the lamppost about what you would love to do with your life, you think about what action you could do towards those dreams right now and you make a commitment to the lamppost that you will go away and do two or three things that will take you closer to your dreams. In two weeks time you report back to the lamppost, tell it about your progress, think a bit more about what you want and then commit once again to some stuff that you are going to go away and do. It sounds crazy but if you met up with that lamppost once a fortnight for the next few months you would get a lot done! Now imagine if that lamppost could talk back. Imagine if it could cheer you on if you were flagging. Imagine if it had a few tools and tips that would help you even more.

I’ve always been a bit of a tree-hugger and for the last few Monday mornings I’ve been going out to the local park before I start my working day and communing with the trees.

I found a new favourite tree — a big old oak. I’ve always thought that trees are wise. Some of them have been around for a long time and they’ve witnessed a lot. I stood underneath and leaned against the tree’s trunk and observed the circular spread of its branches. It was as if a wise, kind grandmother had placed her arms around me.

I found myself talking to the tree, telling it my problems and where I was at. I don’t know whether I was digging into my own wisdom, or whether trees really can communicate with us, but I had a couple of ideas of what I ought to be doing to help myself.

The following Monday morning, after stopping off for a takeaway cappuccino, I was drawn back to the oak tree. I leaned against it and reported back to it on my progress over the previous week. Once again I found myself committing to a couple of action points.

On the third Monday, standing under the tree, I remembered the description of coaching that I mentioned above. And I told the tree I would write about it.

Today is Sunday. I had to get this article written. Tomorrow morning, I have another appointment with my coach.
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By: Ray Lee
Tags: PHP, Trees, Data Structures

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Tree as Teacher
By: Jenine Bsharah Baines
Tags: Haiku, Nature, Poetry, Trees, Poetry On Medium

Tree as Teacher

Photo by pure julia on Unsplash

Tree taught me a word

Aphyllous — having no leaves

Bare branch buds delight

Mystery uncloaked

Aphyllous — sounds like Phyllis

I’m cousin with both

©Jenine Bsharah Baines 2020

I love “Word Genius,” a daily email defining lesser-known words. Like “aphyllous” — a term used in botany. Anyway, I was seated at my desk, repeating “aphyllous” over and over — tasting it, playing with it — when I looked out the window and saw leaves falling from a tree. “You’re teaching me!” I said to Tree. And I do have a cousin, Phyllis. Hi, Phyllis! Tree is telling us to plan, post-Covid, a visit.

Thank you, Dennett, for publishing me in your word-garden, Weeds & Wildflowers.

Thank you, dearest readers. Your visits make my heart & spirit blossom.
Paper Christmas Tree
By: Everything Cj
Tags: Make, Home, How To, Christmas, Trees

Paper Christmas Tree

Paper Christmas Tree

This is a paper Christmas tree using only 1 material — ad circulars.

You also don’t need many tools, just something to cut, something to glue and a pen and that’s it.

It makes a cheap and cheerful Christmas tree and as it is up-cycled, good for the planet, too!

I first made it as a last minute decoration for a Christmas dinner as I had nothing at hand apart from these supplies and it worked out pretty well. I’ve since made some tweaks to make it better so here you go, have a try :)

Supplies:

1. Magazine style ad circulars (several sheets stapled or glued together in the middle, not a single sheet).

2. Cutting tools — scissors or craft knife with cutting mat.

3. Glue — any that would glue papers together but ones that are less watery (like glue stick) is better.

4. Pen
Christmas Tree oh Christmas Tree 🎄
By: Sandy Diethelm
Tags: Food For Thought, Christmas, Trees

Christmas Tree oh Christmas Tree 🎄

‘tis the time of the Tree… when generally without question we celebrate one another’s fallen Tree, felled for it’s beauty and decorated to die.

Yet the ancient symbol of the Tree has been found to represent physical and spiritual nourishment, transformation and liberation, union and fertility. They are seen as powerful symbols of growth and resurrection. So are we worshipping the Tree or disrespecting the Tree? Sacrificing the Tree? 🤔

My favourite Tree in the World is pictured in Hawkes Bay, New Zealand.

One year after the raging bush fires I think about celebrating Trees in their natural environment, no need to cut them down.
Denten Tree Health Services
Tags: Tree Care, Tree Service, Tree Trimming, Tree Removal, Trees

At TreeNewal, we accept that healthy trees bring about more beneficial, more joyful lives for the individuals around them. Our ISA Certified Arborists utilize just reasonable and eco-accommodating methods to guarantee your trees get the best care in all settings. From private yards to commercial property settings, you can rely on the information and aptitude of our expert arborists to make the best maintenance and treatment plans for your North Texas trees.

ABOUT TREENEWAL

TreeNewal was set up by a group of expert arborists and tree health professionals. Our organization endeavors to be your first call when you have any sort of tree care needs.

Our groups of ISA Certified Arborists have explicit information on the Denton region and comprehend the atmosphere, climate, and toughness of the dirt. This specific mastery permits them to offer you exact and simple to-execute rules to make the trees in your nursery lovely once more. We invest heavily in being consistently in the know regarding the most recent developments and advancements in tree care. Our skill goes from tree nutrition to eco-accommodating bug control and appropriate pruning.

OUR DENTON TREE HEALTH SERVICES

Our scope of tree wellbeing services in Denton is continually extending and creating. We accept that each tree is novel and ought to get unmatched care, so we modify our services to your needs. A portion of our Denton tree care services include:

Tree Health Assessment

Tree Pruning

Tree Installation

Tree Removal

Tree Emergency Response Team

WHY CHOOSE US?

As ISA Certified Arborists and Denton tree experts, we comprehend that every zone has unconventional qualities that should be viewed while giving all-encompassing tree care services.

That is the reason we are focused on presenting arrangements that are appropriate, advantageous, and delightful, just as making an amicable plan for anyone in Denton to appreciate.

OUR COMMITMENT TO QUALITY

We are focused on furnishing Denton homeowners and landowners with phenomenal care and top-notch customer service. We are a privately based group and invest wholeheartedly in being important for the Denton people group. We are thankful for every single customer and need to guarantee each individual has extraordinary involvement in our group.
Dallas Tree Health
Tags: Tree Care, Tree Service, Tree Trimming, Tree Care Services, Trees

The key to keeping up healthy trees in Dallas is being proactive. Your neighbors at TreeNewal are here to help you keep steady over everything to keep your healthy trees happy and landscape lovely. Tree wellbeing begins in the roots, the base of the tree. Our Dallas tree experts spend significant time in tree nutrition and root air circulation, which a ton of trees need in poor or thickly pressed soil like we regularly have in Dallas.

ABOUT TREENEWAL

We help homeowners and commercial properties with a wide variety of professional tree care services. With regards to the strength of your tree, we trust in being proactive. That implies ensuring your trees get professional tree services, for example, compost, tree trimming, and tree pruning each season and varying. These precaution estimates help your trees live more, grow straight and tall, and guard your properties!

OUR DALLAS TREE SERVICES

We give a wide variety of tree services close to Dallas for neighborhood homeowners and commercial properties. Our Dallas tree services include:

Dallas Tree Services

Tree Doctors

Tree Nutrition

Tree Removal

Emergency Tree Services

WHY CHOOSE US?

Healthy trees are our main concern. We are ISA Certified Arborists; prepared in proactive and safeguard tree rehearses that assist your trees with growing and tall. Regardless of whether we’re mending debilitated trees or dealing with routine tree pruning, we take care of business rapidly and securely. No one realizes local Dallas tree species like the individuals who live and work here in Northern Texas.

OUR COMMITMENT TO QUALITY

We are focused on furnishing Dallas homeowners and commercial property owners with astounding tree services with incredible customer service. We invest heavily in being essential for the Dallas people group, and it means everything to us when you believe you can depend on us to deal with all your tree removal and tree service requirements.
Gathering seeds from trees
By: Rabia Akram
Tags: Tree Stories, Quotes About Trees, Trees

Gathering seeds from trees

By gathering seed from trees which are close to our homes and close to our hearts, helping them to germinate and grow, and then planting them back into their original landscapes, we can all make a living link between this millennium and the next, a natural bridge from the past to the future.”
Ali Shokri — A Nature Photographer Whose Art Motivates
Tags: Nature, Art, Photography, Photographer, Trees

Photography is the subtle art of creating blueprints of reality. It is always broad in meaning and rich in significance. A photographer comes up with the definition of their art and thus makes their photos not only the bearers of aesthetical value but also the source of information, a message to be transmitted to the viewers. Today, we want to introduce to you Ali Shokri, a landscape and nature photographer who shapes the viewer’s mind and inspires them to do good.

Ali Shokri — a landscape and nature photographer from Iran

Ali Shokri (b. 1982, Iran) is a passionate photographer who started his professional career in 2004. In his works, the Iranian artist tries to highlight the beauty and richness of nature overall, but his main focus has always been on trees that he emphatically compares to human beings. Dedication to nature and its preservation are what inspire Ali Shokri to keep pursuing his noble purpose — to draw people’s attention to the current grueling environmental issues and motivate them to change their attitude to trees and nature in general.

The poignant message in Ali Shokri’s art

Ali Shokri advertises his ideas through his captivating art in a variety of ways. The nature photographer has already spent 16 years working on his art project “The Tree.” In 2017, he was a speaker at the TED Talk, enlightening people about the life of trees and their importance for the outside environment. Besides, he published a book called “The Passion of Trees,” which you might want to read.

Still, his main craft is photography, through which Ali Shokri cries about the vitality of nature and trees in particular. Trees are the lungs of the earth, but people, little by little, start to forget about it.

The art of Ali Shokri is a reminder of the importance of trees to all of us. His photographs have been displayed at a variety of group and solo exhibitions in Iran, France, Italy, Canada, the USA, and other countries. At 300Magazine, we do recommend that you get acquainted with the work of this talented Iranian nature photographer whose art motivates and inspires people to act!
Have you ever found lost keys on the forest floor?
By: Rabia Akram
Tags: Trees, Forest Floor, Lost Key, Treestory

TREE STORIEs

Have you ever found lost keys on the forest floor?

Photo by Michael Dziedzic on Unsplash

What to do when you find a bunch of lost keys on the forest floor? There are three possibilities to rule out the given scenario.

The first instinct that will come to your prestigious mind is to return it to its rightful owner. You will look for all the missing clues to track down that person and try to make all necessary efforts to give this belonging to him.

But to track down a person in the vicinity of a thick forest is hard to accomplish. Let’s leave the keys alone for some fairies to find them.
Did you know you can plant trees from your smartphone?
By: Chiara Conca
Tags: Apps, Ecosia, Forest, Environment, Trees

Treedom, Forest, Ecosia: the technology that is good for the planet

Nowadays, people tend to spend most of the time they’re awake in front of a screen. However, it is possible to make this time productive from an environmental point of view. You could be surprised by how easy, quick, and effortless is to plant a tree.

Whether through a click, by downloading an app, or by researching information on the internet, today the ways to contribute to making a change for Earth’s well-being are multiple.

Here are some examples.

Treedom

Who said that planting a tree is hard? With Treedom you can do that and much more with just a click.

Treedom is a web platform that allows you to plant a tree online and follow its growth remotely.

Thanks to your contribution, Treedom will finance and support the work of lots of farmers who will take care of your plant until it is productive. The communities involved in the project, in Asia, Africa, South America, and Italy, will be trained and financed.

To plant a tree with Treedom could also be an idea for an original gift!

Forest

In need of a way to avoid distractions while working or studying? Forest is the solution to your problems.

Forest is an app that helps you to focus. Every time you enter the app, you set a timer from ten to 120 minutes. In that frame of time, if you don’t use your mobile phone, you earn coins with which you can buy virtual trees and create your forest, otherwise you lose the “challenge”. Once you have 2,500 coins you can decide to plant an actual tree.

Ecosia

Ecosia works like an ordinary search engine. However, it is much more than that. Every time you click on a sponsored link, 80% of the incomes is intended to plant trees.

With the collaboration of Yahoo and WWF, this search engine aims to help the forestation of the Amazon forest as well as other woodlands all around the world.

To date, more than 112 million trees have been planted and around 15 million users use this platform.

To contribute to the safeguard of our planet is not hard.

Earth is the only planet we can live on. It’s our home. Let’s help to make it as liveable as possible starting from small gestures.
DataStructure Quick Notes: Binary Tree
By: Vikash Rawat
Tags: Learning, Binary Tree, Datastrucutre, Interview Preparation, Trees

Part 1: INTRODUCTION:

Tree: Hierarchical data structures.

A tree is a hierarchical data structure. Main uses of trees include maintaining hierarchical data, providing moderate access, and insert/delete operations. Binary trees are special cases of the tree where every node has at most two children. *(A tree is an undirected acyclic graph).

Vocabulary: Root, child, Leaf node,Parent,Subtree,Siblings,Edge,Height;

Various Vocabulary used inTree

image source: Link

Binary Tree: A tree whose elements have at most 2 children is called a binary tree. Since each element in a binary tree can have only 2 children, we typically name them the left and right child.

Binary tree

Representation:

Tree node contains the following parts.

1. Data

2. Pointer to left child

3. Pointer to the right child

C/C++ implementation:

struct node

{

int data;

struct node *left;

struct node *right;

};

Part 2: Properties of Binary Tree:

The maximum number of nodes at level ‘l’ of a binary tree is 2^l. The maximum number of nodes in a binary tree of height ‘h’ is 2^h — 1. In a Binary Tree with N nodes, the minimum possible height or the minimum number of levels is Log2(N+1) A Binary Tree with L leaves has at least Log2(L) + 1 levels In a Binary tree where every node has 0 or 2 children, the number of leaf nodes is always one more than nodes with two children. see Handshaking lemma

Part 3: Types of Binary Tree:

Different Types Of Binary Tree

Full : Every node has 0 or 2 children. L = I + 1 , L=leaf nodes,I=internal nodes. Complete: all the levels of a tree are filled entirely except the last level. In the last level, nodes might or might not be filled fully. Also, note that all the nodes should be filled from the left. Degenerate (or pathological): Every internal node has one child. Perfect: All the internal nodes have two children and all leaf nodes are at the same level. Balanced: The difference between the left and the right subtree for any node is not more than one.

Part 4: Tree Traversals:

Tree

Depth First Traversals:

(a) Inorder (Left, Root, Right) : 4 2 5 1 3

(b) Preorder (Root, Left, Right) : 1 2 4 5 3

(c) Postorder (Left, Right, Root) : 4 5 2 3 1

Breadth First or Level Order Traversal : 1 2 3 4 5

Part 5: Quiz:

Practice Concepts: Quiz I ntreview Questions : Click here
The Life of Trees in the Work of the Iranian Photographer Ali Shokri
By: Ilya Kushnirskiy, Fine Art Shippers
Tags: Nature, Art, Artist, Photography, Trees

Trees are an essential part of our world. They are called the lungs of the Earth because they provide us with oxygen and absorb pollutants through their leaves. Besides, trees are a vital element of every community. They increase the quality of life and create an aesthetically pleasing and peaceful atmosphere we all need in our busy lives. However, sometimes, people seem to forget how trees are important to our survival and the environment. In this post, we want to remind you about that and show you the beauty of trees through the work of the talented Iranian photographer Ali Shokri.

The Life of Trees in the Work of the Iranian Photographer Ali Shokri

Ali Shokri is an Iranian photographer born in Tabriz in 1982. He started working professionally in the field of fine art and photography in 2004, and it was when he launched his multi-year art project called “The Tree.”

Trees in the work of Ali Shokri are like human beings, each with its own story to tell. The artist captures their life and their beauty, trying to remind people that each of us needs to take care of our natural world because it is crucial to our survival. In 2017, Ali Shokri even published a book called “Passion of the Trees,” which represents a compilation of many years of his work and features an extensive collection of tree photographs taken in Iran and Azerbaijan.

Works by the inspired Iranian photographer Ali Shokri have been featured at a number of solo and group exhibitions around the globe. They have also been presented at many national and international competitions and appeared in various publications worldwide.

Ali Shokri is, without a doubt, one of the most notable Iranian artists of today, whose work makes a difference. His amazing photographs of trees and nature are what can make people remember the things that are really important not just for our well-being, but for our lives.
The Tree of Life
Tags: Nature, Moringa, Short Story, Life, Trees

“What is that?”

“Those are branches of Moringa Oleifera, also known as the Tree of Life”

“Oh’ … beautiful”

“Well, not particularly now as they’re just branches, but, if they accept the soil where I intend to plant them, then it will be, indeed, beautiful. This tree is quite amazing.

She had been growing at our front yard, for a couple years, until this stupid ass neighbor made us cut her off. She was getting too high for the city anyway, bumping onto electrical wires, so we had to cut her, you know, with a heavy heart from what, to us, seemed to be killing her.

But she kept on reviving.

She would grow dozens of seedlings, from her roots and stem, in spite of our attempts to stop her. One day, we decided to replant one of those branches, and it worked. Someplace safer from our neighbor, but still within the city.

So, now, I’m collecting more branches. I hope to find her other areas, this time well beyond the city borders, on which she can live and thrive.

You see, there’s a reason for the name. This tree is full of life. Yet, she doesn’t keep it all to herself, but spreads it around in many ways. Water touched by her roots is purified, her leaves, branches and flowers serve as nutrients for birds, insects, all sorts of animals. I’ve seen it. I remember eying, out at our varanda, this bird eating from her white flowers.

It was big, with a strong beak and black striped wings. Never seen it before. Nor afterwards, as we had to put the tree down. That bird didn’t show up here again.

Perhaps, then, by finding new homes for the Tree of Life, I’ll find myself again looking at that white big bird, or many other birds, insects, even fish!”

“That would be really beautiful.”

“I think so”
Tree Trimming vs Tree Pruning [Different Techniques]
By: Vicente Prescott
Tags: Tree Pruning, Tree Trimming, Services, Portland Oregon, Trees

Are you confused about whether to prune or trim your trees? These tree health maintenance techniques — tree trimming and pruning are often confused. Both are useful tree care methods practiced by tree owners to properly maintain the health and structure of their trees.

Trees increase the beauty of your landscape and create homes for small creatures like squirrels and birds. Enriches your home campus with evergreen looks and provides you shade during the hot summer. You can rest under your trees, inhaling fresh oxygen, and enjoying the beauty of nature.

It’s essential to understand the difference between tree trimming and pruning for tree owners. That will help you know when and what to prune or trim your trees to give them the perfect shape and structure. This will make your landscape look pretty cool and aesthetic.

Pruning vs. Trimming: Difference between tree trimming and pruning?

Let’s check out the differences between tree trimming and pruning?

What is pruning?

Pruning is the tree maintenance method to remove dead, defective, decayed, and weak parts of trees and plants. Those tree-parts may be dangerous to other plants and humans as well.

The defective and decayed branches may spread the disease to other tree-parts. Hence, it’s better to prune those branches to enhance good tree health. Also, weak and dead branches may fall-down anytime and damage other plants under it or even hurt humans and animals.

Tree owners must regularly measure their trees’ health, and whenever there is any necessity of pruning trees, they must remove those tree parts using the best tree pruning methods. Pruning will extend the life of your trees immensely and increase your property value as well.

If you are pruning your trees yourself, always use the right pruning technique. At the same time don’t forget to use the right pruning tools such as pruners, clippers, or secateurs.

I recommend hiring tree care experts to prune your trees if you don’t have tree pruning experience or training. It will save time and help you create a superb looking landscape.

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Decades
By: Indie Jen Fischer
Tags: Nature, Time, Poetry, Reflections, Trees

Decades, perhaps even centuries

Benjamin thinks at least a thousand years

Your life span

And then all of it gone in an hour

Only a small trace of you left now

Though your demise did not come in an hour

It began a year ago, maybe before

Valentine’s Day, I think

Was it the wind or lightning that did the trick?

Splitting you down the side?

So strong were you that you took a line with you

Sucked the power from the whole block

How many creatures did you house over the years?

How many now search for a new home?

They took pieces of you, then, that Valentine’s Night

And the rest of you today

They arrived just after 8

And were gone by 9:15

The boys brushed off what was left of you

Admired your girth, your years, your majesty

You will be missed

But, we’ll sit with you from time to time

To make us feel less alone

To remind us of our own decade here
Never mind the government, plant more trees!
By: Phil Pickin
Tags: Rewinding, Woodlands, Forest, Environment, Trees

Tree canopy © Phil Pickin

“As National Tree week gets underway, Natural Resources Wales has announced that preparation work has begun to plant two new woodland creation sites near Clocaenog and Hafren forests as part of a project to expand the Welsh Government Woodland Estate…” This was the opening sentence of a press release, circulated by Natural Resources Wales at the beginning of National Tree Week. It arrived a few moments after a Defra press release which highlighted the events impressive 45-year history.

According to Defra, some national media outlets have quoted “250,000 people take part in the event every year”, and over the coming year, a charity called Cool Earth are apparently encouraging people to plant a tree to commemorate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022. The Queen’s Green Canopy initiative officially kicks off in May 2021 in time for the celebrations a year later.

As you might expect, the Forestry Commission are very supportive of the plan and of National Tree Week. I’m sure we can also assume they are also very supportive of the Governments new England Tree Strategy devised to “accelerate tree planting”. According to Defra, a £640m Nature for Climate fund is being used to meet the Governments tree planting manifesto commitment, all of which sounds good, which it is. But, as has been pointed out by the likes of the BBC and RSPB, the Chancellor’s Ten Point Plan, announced last week, hardly mentioned climate change and, as the RSPB pointed out that there was, “very little new money for nature”.

Apparently, tree planting has fallen over the last year with some media outlets stating that only 70% of the area planted last year, between April and September, has been planted over the same period this year. So it would seem we have a lot of work to do to catch up during this tree week.

But whatever your political views or opinions weeks like this are a great opportunity to take stock of the trees and other wildlife habitats in your own gardens. With pledges to build more roads, and with established woodland being lost during the construction of the likes of HS2, the need to halt the decline has never been more urgent. Even with the constructors of major infrastructure projects pledging to replant trees, we all need to do our bit.

Closer to home, and while we are all still struggling to cope with Covid restrictions on our movements, building and maintaining habitat, both for wildlife and ourselves, has never been more important. As has often been seen, we can’t leave things entirely to Governments of whatever colour. Nothing beats the collective action of ‘Joe Public’. And if you don’t have access to areas in which to plant trees, there are many organisations around the UK, and beyond, who will willingly plant trees on your behalf in exchange for a modest donation.

Maybe this year a rooted Christmas tree could not only provide you with natural festive decorations but also a home, in the weeks and months to come, to the birds you feed throughout the year? Just remember to keep it watered!
I love nature too & trees are wonderful.
By: Dr. Preeti Singh
Tags: Trees

Everywhere you look

Styled in color

The trees are in full bloom

A beautiful day begins…
The trees are talking
By: James Hunter
Tags: Environmentalism, Science, Poetry, Ecology, Trees

Photo by James Hunter — location, Ghost Forest, JAX

Is anyone surprised?

With a network of

microbial weaving,

they share stories

and antidotes.

They conspire

and flirt.

Sometimes, you walk

into their orgy

and get a nose full.

The junipers are

doing it now.

Is anyone surprised?

j.h. 12/7
What tree should we choose?
Tags: Holidays, Sustainability, Trees, Eco Friendly

It is almost the holidays, and many people are setting up trees inside of their homes, and decorating for the festive season. One of the questions that our team has come into contact with and would like your personal opinions on is which type of tree to get. Should one opt for an actual traditional tree that comes from the soil, but ahs to be transported and/or might be thrown away after the festivities, or should one buy a plastic tree, that can be stored and reused again.

Personally, I have a plastic tree. I did this not because I consciously made the decision instead because I found it in my parents’ attic and wanted to make sure that we reuse everything before buying something new. Therefore, for me, the choice was easily made. Now my tree stands happily in my living room each holiday season and then waits for me in the basement until it comes out again. It requires no travelling, minimal effort, and until it can’t be used again, I will not throw it away.

No, of course, everyone has their own opinions, and I defiantly see the other benefits. If you buy an actual tree, it would have taken up the CO2 in the years that it has been grown, and if you buy a potted one, then you can replant it and reuse it next year. A win-win situation. Sadly, this is not how this often goes. After the holiday season, many people can see that there is an overshot of trees in the dump and that they are even left out on the streets. A friend of mine even mentioned that someone she knows burns their tree, releasing all the Co2 that the tree would have taken up, back into our atmosphere.

Therefore, my question remains, what is the best solution for this dilemma?
I never saw a discontented tree
By: Rabia Akram
Tags: John Muir, Quotes About Trees, Trees, Quotes

I never saw a discontented tree

“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far!”
TIL 2020.12.07
By: Joo Hee Kim
Tags: Graph, Binary Search Tree, Trees, Data Structures

VisuAlgo — visualising data structures and algorithms through animation

VisuAlgo was conceptualised in 2011 by Dr Steven Halim as a tool to help his students better understand data structures…
3 Signs That Indicate a Tree Might Fall
By: Five Star Tree Services
Tags: Tree Care, Tree Service, Tree Removal Services, Tree Removal, Trees

There are a number of ways in which mother nature can cause damage to the people we love as well as our property. It just so happens that trees are one of the most common causes of property damage, so we here at Five Star Tree Services will explain the signs to look out for when wondering if a tree might fall. Visit our blog post linked below to learn more.

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Let’s Talk About Trees — Part 1. Poor Urban Forest Husbandry
By: Louise Peacock
Tags: Photography, Tree Stories, Plants, Environment, Trees

Above, newly planted trees in Fleetwood Park, Mississauga, to increase shade and encourage people to enjoy the Park.

Unfortunately. although the City had the right idea to increase the trees along the bike and walking path, they failed to provide the appropriate care for them.

The extreme damage to the bark of the tree in the first image was caused by the person operating the string trimmer coming too close to the tree. This could easily have been avoided if when planting the tree, they had created a wider circle around the base of the tree and filled it with wood chips to keep the weeds down, and to help retain the moisture.

The other trees in the images above have also had their bark damaged from careless string trimming, and also they are failing from lack of water. Once the bark becomes so badly damaged that it circles the trunk, the tree is no longer able to take in nutrients, because the bark can no longer carry the flow of nutrients to the tree. It has effectively been “girdled”. Ultimately that tree will die.

The summer these saplings were planted was unusually hot and very dry. The trees got one watering when they were planted in July, but for the remaining months of summer and Fall, they were completely neglected. The result was that most of them died the following year.

I consider that to be a huge waste of taxpayer money and a huge loss to the community.

Those saplings died, and have not been replaced.
This is wonderful: The Social Life of Plants, in the New York Times, profiling Suzanne Simard.
By: Dan Hill
Tags: Nature, Science, Ecology, Forest, Trees

Designer, urbanist, etc. Director of Strategic Design at Vinnova, Swedish govt’s innovation agency. Visiting prof UCL Bartlett IIPP + Design Academy Eindhoven
Tranquility amongst the trees
By: Rabia Akram
Tags: Quotes About Trees, Trees

A tree saying by William Blake

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. I feel that a man may be happy in this world. And I know that this world is a world of imagination and vision. I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser a guinea is far more beautiful than the Sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity, and by these I shall not regulate my proportions; and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself. As a man is, so he sees.
Rings
By: Roy Reichle
Tags: Whole, Poetry, New, Rings, Trees

Photo by Captain Tenneal

Stop searching for happiness in the same place you lost it. Change is not dismantling the old; it’s building the new.

— Harriet Tubman

Agates and trees build rings.

One paints from the outside in,

the other draws from inside out.

Both capture the cryptic art

of lines, balance, and shape

in narrative rings that broaden,

bend and turn with physics and fate

to tell their history in rings.
A Tree Grows in Boyle Heights
By: Dan Meylor
Tags: Elder, Tree, Spiritual Awareness, Graffiti

A Tree Grows in Boyle Heights

While this image of a tree is not an abstract photo, as many of the images of tree bark that I’ve made over the years are, I was drawn to the shapes, lines and colors of the graffiti. In addition, paying attention to the aged patina led me to thoughts about Wabi Sabi, to the appreciation that everything changes, that nothing lasts. All of which is comforting in my elder years because I realize that I too am part of that natural cycle of change, that I also will pass only to begin a new cycle of birth to passing, an ungoing cycle until I escape the wheel. Momento Mori.

Lately, I am distressed by the number of trees that have been vandalized by humans. I can understand someone carving a heart into the bark, an act of love in an ironic way. I can even understand but not accept the disfiguring of this tree. The area of L. A. where I made this image is one of frustration caused by poverty and limited roots. Graffiti is, after all, is a yellow canary in the mineshaft of social disfunction. Humans are by nature creative and will in the worst of circumstances, create.

But I find it difficult to comprehend the onslaught of violent attacks not only on trees but on nature in general. Senseless attacks such as the scars seen on this tree but also attacks on a larger scale. The deliberate destruction of entire forests and other natural features for what? The love of power, money, nationalism, among others. (The effects of this desire can be seen in photos of human-altered landscapes found in “The New Topographics” movement that had some of its beginnings in L.A., an urban area that has violated nature to an amazing extent.) But even this violation provides a spiritual path to the realization of what death is the death that I can not bear. I suggest a reading of Richard Shelton’s “Requiem for Sonora” would be enlightening. In the cycle of impermanence, everything can be a spiritual teacher, including the truth that often one has little control of events.
Trees are moving but slowly
By: Rabia Akram
Tags: Tree Migration, Climate Change, Trees, Tree Story

Unfortunately, when you cut down a tree, it is not replaced by another gigantic tree. But it leads to the loss of habitat for other tree-dwelling animals, birds, and insects.

Chopping down a tree makes the surrounding air drier and hotter. The air around the tree tends to be calmer and more refreshing. But when we cut down a tree, we are indirectly contributing to the loss of biological diversity. We are silently anguishing the trees.

The purpose of a tree is not limited to provide a habitat to land animals and birds alike but to transpire water into the atmosphere. An average-looking tree can push 15o tonnes of water into the atmosphere – each year. By slashing them away, trees are silently witnessing the collapse of the ecosystem, and I can tell you they do not like this brutal act of inhumanity.