trees

This would explain why our lights and cable flickered

adamg — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:19:46 +0000

The scene outside our Roslindale house around 11:10 a.m.

Trees are, of course, falling all over the place (sometimes on houses - see this house on VFW Parkway in West Roxbury). If you still have Internet service, you can listen to all the calls over the Boston Fire Department's frequency here.

The loss of an old friend

adamg — Thu, 26 May 2011 13:36:21 +0000

On a recent visit to his old Woodbourne haunts in Jamaica Plain, Mike Ball was surprised to see the Norway maple in what was once his front yard gone, on order of the city tree warden:

It gave us many beautiful views and considerable shade. We planted and tended to flowers around it in the tree zone I custom built to accommodate its protruding roots. My sons used one side of it to support a makeshift snow slide during some of our blizzards. Many songbirds made homes in its branches and a hole high above the streets.

Citizen complaint of the day: Dead Trees

lex.galloway — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:43:47 +0000

Filed on Citizens Connect today from Paisley Park:

Three old dead trees falling down polluting the st. and denying cars.

From the photo they don't look like too much of annoyance, but maybe you just had to be there.

The Back Bay stinks

adamg — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:42:29 +0000

Penny Cherubino reports the stink trees of the Back Bay are in full stench - a couple weeks earlier than last year.

The dead trees of Allston

adamg — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 17:37:11 +0000

Harry Mattison reports:

Harvard planted approximately 150 street trees on Western Avenue in 2007 and it is amazing how many of them are now dead or far from flourishing. ...

Earlier:
The dying trees of South Boston.

Looks like Dutch Elm Disease is back in Back Bay

adamg — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:24:17 +0000

Penny Cherubino posts a photo of an ailing elm tree at Mass. Ave. and Commonwealth Ave. that appears to have the classic signs of the killer fungus spread by beetles.

Earlier:
The dying trees of South Boston.

The dying trees of South Boston

adamg — Sun, 31 May 2009 12:52:35 +0000

Susan Labandibar is seeing a lot of dead and dying trees these days and wonders why:

... Young trees, even trees over twenty years old, are dying at an incredible rate. What does the Parks Department think? It looks like most of the street trees they are planting are not surviving. ...

With a Google map showing the location of all the dead trees on her dog-walking route.

Free trees for Boston residents

adamg — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:36:01 +0000

Candelaria Silva reports that Grow Boston Greener will be giving away trees to Bostonians with a place to plant them in May:

... The trees are 6-8' tall and come in containers. GBG asks each new tree steward to fill out a site evaluation form which is a brief survey of the growing conditions specific to your yard area so staff can help match the right tree to the right place. Trees need to be planted within a week of receipt and watered once a week for two full growing seasons (April through October) to establish well and grow into the future. ...

Joyce Kilmer to Davis Square, stat!

adamg — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:29:46 +0000

Residents surround willow tree to keep it from being cut down.

Vegetarian zombies walk among us

adamg — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:06:06 +0000

For the past several weeks, there's been this amazing brain-like fungus growing on the side of a tree on the VFW Parkway southbound, just past LaGrange. Every time I drove past, I thought it would make a great photo and vowed to stop next time. This morning, around 9:30, I saw the brain and vowed to stop on my way back (from Millennium Park). Around 10:30, I did - only to discover that in the interim, a vegetarian zombie (what else could it be?) had ripped the brain to shreds:

That'll teach me to put things off, right?

The stink trees of Boston are in bloom

adamg — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:23:35 +0000

So before you start looking for a smelly cat, see if there are any ailanthus trees around.

Breaking: New Trees Planted Across From Jamaica Pond

stevegarfield — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:30:09 +0000

It was nice to see some new trees planted across from Jamaica Pond this morning. They are just beside the recently refurbished wall.

I'd give them about 50 years.

Then they'll have to be cut down, after their roots destroy the wall again, and the wall be need to be restored.

Then new trees will be planted.

The cycle of life.

One of these trees is both the same

adamg — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:53:11 +0000

Some Assembly Required noticed today that crews along Huntington Avenue near the Mass. College of Art were replacing seemingly healthy trees with new seemingly health trees, and he wonders why.

Maybe Steven "I came home the other day to find out all my furniture had been stolen and replaced with an exact replica" Wright is now in charge of tree plantings in Boston?

A large tree fell...

Ron Newman — Thu, 26 May 2005 03:56:21 +0000

... at the corner of Orchard and Beech Streets, in North Cambridge. It blocked half of Beech Street and a little bit of Orchard.

I don't know when it fell, but I saw it around 11:30 tonight. For some reason, five orange traffic cones were sitting on the sidewalk nearby, so I put them up all around the fallen tree. Maybe that will stop someone from running into it tonight.

If you see other fallen trees, post them as comments here.

The beautiful, stinky trees of Cambridge

adamg — Wed, 04 May 2005 18:41:16 +0000

Laura ponders Bradford pear trees, which, soothingly line the streets of Cambridge, but which also tend to die off fairly easily and stink up the joint after they flower:

.. the trees tend to self-destruct. Not as in, "KABOOM" - as in, if they are not pruned as they grow, their tightly-crowded branches push away from the too-narrow, thinly-barked trunk, opening their thumbprint shape into more of a round baby toenail stunted with fungus, leaving them susceptible to wind damage in the warmer months and ice damage in the colder months.