Posted: December 21, 2022
If you live in a neighborhood where there are quite a few trees growing outside, you probably live in a community that is healthier than places without many trees. You can celebrate that fact this Christmas season by putting Christmas tree ornaments on a tree in your yard! A new study led by the United
Posted: December 10, 2022
In December, many people think about putting up a Christmas tree. It’s a great time for families to have fun learning more about trees. Though we don’t often think about it, trees could not survive without animals and other living creatures. Some of those creatures are so tiny we can’t see them. Explore with the
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Category: Blog
Tags: Christmas memories, Christmas tree, cookies, foxes, hot chocolate, mice, rabbits, raccoons, seeds, soil, squirrels
Posted: November 16, 2022
Most people feel a little sad every now and then. Sometimes for just a few seconds, they may feel lonely or down in the dumps. Those feelings are often gone in a minute or two. Sometimes they last a little bit longer. When you start to feel sad or lonely, you could try something simple
Posted: November 2, 2022
When I see leaves on the trees changing colors, I think of warm, short sleeved weather turning into sweater and coat weather. I love the fall season for many reasons. The weather is no longer uncomfortably warm. The changing leaf shades make the landscape turn into a crayon box full of bright colors. Watering flowers
Posted: October 20, 2022
In autumn, the leaves of certain kinds of trees turn different colors and fall off. They are known as deciduous trees. Some of them are cottonwoods, elms, maples, oaks, and chestnuts. Other trees, such as spruce, juniper and pine, have needles instead of leaves, and they hang onto most of their needles all year long.
Posted: September 29, 2022
White spruce trees are beautiful coniferous trees that look kind of like Christmas trees. They can grow up to 100 feet tall, and they grow across North America. They are cone bearing seed plants. One place they have not been known to grow is on the Arctic tundra in Alaska. When shadows in northwest Alaska
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Posted: September 14, 2022
Talented guitar builders create guitars made from different kinds of wood. The more unique looking the wood design, the more intriguing it can be to guitarists and collectors. Some of the most beautiful guitars are built from a mahogany tree felled in 1965 in the Chiquibul jungle in what is now Belize. For many years,
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Category: Blog
Tags: Belize, Chiquibul jungle, collectors, guitars, luthiers, mahogany, overharvested, Smithsonian, The Tree
Posted: August 30, 2022
My back yard is home to a rose bush that flowers beautifully in early spring. I love this rose bush because the roses cover it so profusely. They are some of the first blossoms to burst with color each year. There is one problem with the bush, however. Some of its branches arch out over
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Category: Blog
Tags: arch, birds, dormant, lawnmowing, mammals, Mary Jo DeLonardo, prune, rose bush, Treehugger Newsletter, trim
Posted: August 17, 2022
In the Netherlands, also known as Holland, a landscape architect has dreamed up a project that brings trees to people. Bruno Doedens and the late Joop Mulder, who was his longtime collaborator, thought up the project. They wanted to reduce pollution and waste and to improve biodiversity, which refers to the variety of life in
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Category: Blog
Tags: Anne Pinto-, Arcadia, biodiversity, Bosk, containers, Forest, Leeuwarden, Netherlands, pollution, Rodrigues, The Guardian Weekly, triennial art festival, Volunteers, waste
Posted: August 3, 2022
Sometimes I run across articles about native people in different countries who have inherited a passion for saving their rainforests. It’s such a basic desire that it’s in their blood. When officials in their countries do not take their abilities seriously, the people feel undervalued. And the rainforests suffer. In an article by Ed Ram
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Category: Blog
Tags: charcoal, Chibuga village, Congo, deforestation, gorillas, Objectif Brousse, Rainforests
