Articles Related to "Trees"
The Mandarin Project – Green Roof Garden on a Parking Garage
By Tobias Wolf
Boston’s Prudential Center has been transformed in recent decades with the construction of new buildings, shopping arcades, and landscapes.
The most recent addition, the Mandarin Oriental Hotel, includes a public garden built in 2008 on the roof of a 1964 parking garage. Read more »
Posted August 15, 2010 under Buildings and Construction, Green Roofs, Green Spaces -- Public, Native Plants, Soil, Trees, urban forestry / urban gardens.
Using Remote Sensing to Track Invasive Trees
By Ann Perry
A team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists has refined remote sensing tools for identifying invasive Ashe juniper shrubs and trees in central Texas and nearby regions. Read more »
Posted June 16, 2010 under Ecological Maintenance, GIS, Invasives, Mapping, Remote Sensing, Trees.
Sheet Mulching
By Tricia Diggins
In order to take a break from pulling invasive plants we finally started a program of sheet mulching in the Alexandra Botanic Gardens this past summer and fall.
Posted March 15, 2010 under Invasives, Recycled Materials, Soil, Trees.
Tree Care: Managing the Threat of Winter Moths
By Carl Brodeur
Last November and December my phone was abuzz with reports from my clients in Southeastern Massachusetts, letting me know about little “whitish” moths flying around porch lights during the evening hours.
Posted March 10, 2010 under Insect Management, Trees.
TREES, A CHALLENGE OF PERSPECTIVE
By Rolf Cachat-Schilling
It’s all about competition. Or is it? For most of the past two centuries, we have been given a picture of forests as realms of fierce competition, and have looked upon human interference as constructive refereeing. Read more »
Posted March 10, 2010 under Balanced Ecosystems, Trees.