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Healthy Bark, Healthy Tree Part 2: Mechanical and Weather Damage
Mechanical damage is the most preventable of bark injuries because it is often due to impatience, inattention, or ignorance. Careless maintenance practices can damage trees that take decades, not weeks, to grow. While we cannot control the weather, which can cause irreparable bark injury, we can control what plants we purchase and where we choose to locate them—the right plant in the right place increases its chances of surviving weather extremes. Enjoy the amazing photographs in this article on preventing mechanical and weather damage to trees. Continue reading →
Posted in MG in the Garden, Public Education
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Tagged bark, bark split, frost cracking, lawn mower, lightning strike, mechanical damage, pruning, sunburn, sunscald, winter injury
Healthy Bark, Healthy Tree Part 1: Wildlife Damage
Trees have numerous ways to protect themselves. They can emit chemicals that repel invaders or attract predators to the invaders. If trees are wounded, they can try to compartmentalize the disease, by isolating or “walling off” the infected area and halting the spread of the infection. But it is bark that provides the first line of protection for a tree. Continue reading →
Are You Lichen the Bark? Beautiful Bark
Part 1: Beautiful Bark
Where, beyond snow-covered landscapes, does one search in winter for wonders of the natural world? If one looks carefully at that which winter has laid bare, then the beauty of bark emerges. With no leaves to obscure the view, one can truly appreciate the varying colors, textures, and patterns of deciduous tree barks. Continue reading →
Posted in MG in the Garden, Public Education, Video
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Tagged American hornbeam, American sycamore, bark, Betula nigra, black cherry, cambium, Carpus caroliniana, Eastern redcedar, Juniperus virginiana, Liquidambar styraciflua, musclewood, phloem, Platanus occidentalis, Prunus serotina, quercus alba, Red Birch, River birch, sweetgum, white oak, xylem
Photographing the Tried and True Sheets: Part 3 – Capturing Foliage and Bark
Written by Mary Free, Certified Master Gardener So far, our Photographing the Tried and True Sheets series has explored how best to capture photographs of various plants, including trees, flowers and fruits. You can read part one here and part two here! Part three of … Continue reading →
Posted in Community Gardens, Demonstration Gardens, Glencarlyn Library Community Garden, MG in the Garden, Public Education
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Tagged Alexandria, Arlington, bark, Betula nigra, decidouous shrubs, deciduous, deciduous trees, Fairlington, fall color, ferns, Flower, foliage, Fothergilla gardenii, fruits, Glencarlyn Community Library Garden, Glencarlyn Library, Japanese pachysandra, leaf chlorophyll, leaves, Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia, Matteuccia struthiopteris, Meadowlark Botanical Gardens, MGNV, MGNV Sunny Garden, National Arboretum, Native plants, non-natives, Pachysandra procumbens, photographing plants, Pinus strobus, Taxodium distichum, Tried and True Native Plant Selections for the Mid-Atlantic
