by Trees SC | Jul 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
Heat Stress in Urban Trees: A look at how trees respond to high temperatures and reflected heat, especially in the built environment Julianne Schieffer > Penn State Cooperative Extension Educator & Regional Urban Forester Long, hot summer days tax trees just as...
by Trees SC | May 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
COMMON PERSIMMON – Clark Beavans, Trees SC Board Member & ISA Certified Arborist Persimmon is a medium to large native shade tree but is inappropriate for use as a street tree due to the potential mess of its fruit. It is found primarily in moist...
by Trees SC | May 18, 2024 | Uncategorized
Crepe Myrtle Bark Scale – Ann Huyler, SCFC Pee Dee Region Urban Forestry Specialist Crape Myrtles. Crepe Myrtles. Shrub. Tree. Non-native invasive. Four-season Bomb-Proof Beauty. These topics have long garnered convictions and arguments. Now, except for one:...
by Trees SC | Feb 22, 2024 | Uncategorized
As I sit here on a blustery January day, avoiding doing all of the things that REALLY should be done, I look out the window. What do I see? Spanish moss, hanging from the bald cypress tree out front…. Spanish moss, billowing in the wind …. Spanish moss … what exactly...
by Trees SC | Feb 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
Choosing the Right Tree for the Right Place Basswood/American linden Latin Name: Tilia americana Texture: Medium course to course Common Name(s): Basswood, American linden Growth Rate: Moderately fast growing Zones: 3 to 8 Light: Full sun Height & Width: ...
by Trees SC | Jan 24, 2024 | Uncategorized
How would you like to be called dung-on-a-twig? There certainly are worse things in life but certainly much better things as well. Dung-on-a-twig is one of the root meanings for mistletoe, which grows on trees. This common name comes from two parts of Anglo-Saxon...
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