Trees DO grow better in Brooklyn

[Tom Dunlap]

http://discover.npr.org/features/feature.jhtml?wfId=1324681

 

[kf_tree]

NOT IF I HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT IT....

i'm moving back north at the end of the month

 

[treeman82]

Ken, good to hear you are coming back up here. When should I plan the welcome back party for?

 

[NickfromWI]

I heard that story on NPR today...

It made me wonder if they take in to account that most municipalities hire people to take care of the trees and they select trees that will have a higher chance of surviving in the harsh urban environment and that in rural areas trees tend to be on their own?

I love NPR.

love
nick

 

[kf_tree]

treeman82


you'll see the saw dust drifting in the wind up to westchester when i'm back in town.

 

[kf_tree]

the big question is what will i change my sign off to when i move back up north.

 

[che]

It made me wonder if they take in to account that most municipalities hire people to take care of the trees and they select trees that will have a higher chance of surviving in the harsh urban environment and that in rural areas trees tend to be on their own?

I was listening to it also...it sounded like it was a well controlled study. They tested the same species of trees, grown from seedlings......to count out the different variables possible....they even replaced the 'rural soil' with 'urban soil' to see if it was soil related. Pretty interesting. If I remember correctly, the differences were hard to ignore....the growth rate (height) doubled in the city vs the country.

Che

 

[Tom Dunlap]

A variable that I didn't hgear discussed was ambient air and soil temperatures. I think that we all can agree that a city heat island has the potential for adding one hardiness zone to the surrounding area.

Tom

 

[City climber]

cottonwoods

In NYC they stopped planting these types of trees years ago.Not a very good street tree. grow tall and die. same with lombardi poplars grow rapidly the decline.The trees the city use now are lindens, bradford pears pin oaks and sycamores.

 

[Dan F]

"The trees the city use now are lindens, bradford pears pin oaks and sycamores"

So now instead of trees that grow big and die, they'd rather deal with Jap. beetles and messy debris twice/year, weak unions, yellow leaves and anthracnose?


Dan