Tree Care Articles

Articles Index

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  A Mind Set for Healthy Trees
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  A New Tree Care Philosophy
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  A Practical Working Model of Your Tree, Part One: Mostly Roots
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  A Practical Working Model of Your Tree, Part Three: Leaves
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  A Practical Working Model of Your Tree, Part Two: Trunk and Stem
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  A weeping apple, some deer, and an arborist
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  A Year in the Life of Your Tree - 1
• A Year In the Life of Your Tree - 2
• A Year In the Life of Your Tree - 3
• A Year In the Life of Your Tree - 4
• A Year In the Life of Your Tree - 5
• A Year In the Life of Your Tree - 6
• A Year In the Life of Your Tree - 7
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  A Year in the Life of Your Tree - 8
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  An arborist thinks on compartmentalization
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  An Arborist's Education
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  Ash Leaf-Cone Roller
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  Ash Trees
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  Aspens
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  Birch
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  Botany 1: The whole tree
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  Botany 2: What do trees eat?
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  Bud Scars
• Burning Bush
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  Calgary Soils
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  Calgary weather, snow pack, and the drought
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  Calgary, from a tree's perspective
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  Calgary's Most Dangerous, Dutch Elm Disease
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  Calgary's most dangerous: Pseudomonas syringae
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  Calgary’s most dangerous: Black knot
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  Calgary’s Most Dangerous: Fire blight
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  Calgary’s Most Dangerous: The Yellow-Headed Sawfly
• Caragana
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  Caring For Your Trees This Winter
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  Cell Walls
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  Cherry Shrubs
• Cherry Trees
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  Conifer Introduction
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  Conifer Shrubs
• Conifers
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  Cotoneaster
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  Cranberries
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  Currants
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  Debunking Old Tree Myths
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  Demystifying Tree Pruning
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  Diagnosing Tree Problems
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  Diplodia Gall of Poplar
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  Dogwoods
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  Dr. Alex Shigo
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  Eating Apples and Other Hardy Prairie Fruit
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  Elders
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  Elms
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  Epidermis
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  Fall Needle Drop of Conifers
• Fertilizer
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  Fertilizer 1
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  Fertilizer 2: Trees
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  First post Feb 23 2018
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  Flowering Crabs
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  Forsythia
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  Fungal afflictions
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  Growing Trees in Calgary
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  Growing trees in Calgary, hands-on
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  Haiku for spring
• Hardiness Zones
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  Hawthorns
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  Honeysuckles
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  How to Have a Successful Tree
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  Hydrangea
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  In Defence, the Bronze Birch Borer (BBB)
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  Introduction to Botany Talks
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  Kate's Mayday
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  Lack of connection
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  Leaves
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  Lilacs: French
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  Lilacs: Pruning
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  Linden
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  List of Best Calgary Tree Choices - Evergreens
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  Maintaining your pruning tools
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  Maples
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  Meristems: SAM and RAM
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  Mid-Season Gratitude Post
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  Mock Orange
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  Mountain Ash
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  Mugo Pines 1
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  Mugo Pines 2
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  Mugo Pines 3: Pruning
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  My readers, my reasons
• Native Shrubs
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  Needle Casts of Spruce
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  Ninebark
• Oaks
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  Ohio Buckeye
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  Old Hacked Apple Trees -- Pruning a Tangle
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  Organic Tree Work, Empowering Trees and People.
• Oyster Shell Scale
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  Phloem
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  Phomopsis Canker of Russian Olive
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  Planting 1: Species selection
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  Planting 2: Site selection
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  Planting 3: Buying your tree
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  Planting 4: Root crown identification
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  Planting 5, Digging the hole, planting the tree
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  Planting 6: Staking
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  Planting 7: Watering
• Planting a Tree - Selection
• Planting a Tree - Setting, Staking and Watering
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  Polemic and straight talk: the Swedish Columnar Aspen
• Poplars
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  Proper Tree Pruning
• Pruning - More Reasons Why
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  Pruning in Calgary with Nature in Mind
• Pruning Theory - Tools
• Pruning Theory - Why?
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  Pruning tools you need
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  Quotes
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  Random thoughts from a Calgary Arborist and Tree Surgeon
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  Reference books for Arboriculture
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  Roots
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  Russian Olive
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  Septoria Canker on Poplar
• Shrub Introduction
• Shrub Pruning 1 - Theory
• Shrub Pruning 2 - Size Control
• Shrub Pruning 3 - Final
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  Shrub Pruning for Size Control
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  Shrub Pruning for Size Control 2
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  Shrub Pruning Theory
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  Slime Flux
• Soils - 1
• Soils - 2
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  Spring?
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  Stems
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  Symptoms of a dry tree
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  Symptoms of a sick tree
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  The Mountain Ash
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  The Three Cell Types
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  Thinking of becoming an arborist?
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  Toba Hawthorn: Pruning a tangle
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  Tree Poem
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  Tree Pruning Theory
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  Tree Repair
• Tree Repair - 1
• Tree Repair - 2
• Tree Repair - 3
• Tree Repair - 4
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  Trees and Their Interactions with Other Organisms
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  Two Failures, Griffin Poplar, Manchurian Ash
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  Vascular Cambium
• Walnuts
• Watering
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  Watering a Birch
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  Watering Calgary Trees
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  Western Gall Rust of Pines
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  What is Tree Whispering?
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  When Should a Tree Be Removed?
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  White Fly
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  White Spruce
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  Why is My Tree Dying?
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  Willow Redgall sawfly
• Willows
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  Wolf Willow
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  Woolly Elm Aphid
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  Xylem
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  Yellow leaves: Chlorosis