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July 03rd, 2008 | Author: sarcozona

I’m too busy to write anything substantial, so I’m just linking to another carnival today.  Festival of the Trees is longer than the latest Berry Go Round, but obviously not as good since it doesn’t include me!  FotT links to the 12 most magnificent trees in the world.  That made me think of the sycamore that I used to love to climb when I was growing up.  Maybe it doesn’t qualify as magnificent, but it was certainly well loved.

June 01st, 2008 | Author: sarcozona

There’s a new edition of Festival of the Trees up at Wrenaissance Reflections.  Go read it!

The best bits:

May 02nd, 2008 | Author: sarcozona

The 23rd edition of Festival of the Trees is up at 10,000 Birds. Of course, you also think trees are almost the best part of the world we live in and will go read every entry. Just in case you don’t, though, the best bits are right here:

From the intro this post on magnolias got, I was expecting much larger trees!  This author has obviously never visited the southern US.

The world’s oldest known tree – a spruce almost 10,000 years old.

Good tree planting advice:

1. Plant trees where trees belong.

2. Plant trees that belong where you’re planting them.

Morphology of baby leaves.

Tree roots are bizarre.