Botany Talks
This section of my articles goes much deeper than most of the rest of the content. It in no way invalidates the Tree Care articles; it is more of an advanced class, using more technical language, and a deeper look into the internal lives of trees.
A good place to begin is with the articles called A Practical Working Model of Your Tree, and a good conclusion is the two articles called Arborist’s Education and How to Have a Successful Tree.
Too deep? Check out my general Tree Care Articles.
A Practical Working Model of Your Tree, Part Three: Leaves
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- Written by Kevin R. Lee Kevin R. Lee
- Published: 17 November 2022 17 November 2022
Leaves are the worker bees of the plant world. Tough, tireless little engines, they make almost all of the food that allows the tree to grow itself.
Introduction to Botany Talks
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- Written by Kevin R. Lee Kevin R. Lee
- Published: 07 November 2022 07 November 2022
Here is a list of titles I hope to get written this winter
A Practical Working Model of Your Tree, Part Two: Trunk and Stem
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- Written by Kevin R. Lee Kevin R. Lee
- Published: 02 November 2022 02 November 2022
In this part I will discuss the trunk, or the stem.
A Practical Working Model of Your Tree, Part One: Mostly Roots
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- Written by Kevin R. Lee Kevin R. Lee
- Published: 01 November 2022 01 November 2022
Having a realistic model of your tree in mind makes tree health easy.
How to Have a Successful Tree
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- Written by Kevin R. Lee Kevin R. Lee
- Published: 14 April 2022 14 April 2022
None of this is easy; it takes a lot of knowledge and work. Happy trees do not happen in the city without a lot of the right boxes being checked. What are they?
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
