Behind a number of Japan's beloved sakura viewing sites are volunteer groups taking steps to ensure the cherry trees in their neighborhoods flourish in the springs to come and continue attracting ...
Spring is, without a doubt in my mind, a season of somber reflection, rebirth, new beginnings and — of course — nostalgia. Nostalgia for the buds that once bloomed on your favorite childhood tree.
WASHINGTON — The National Harbor is preparing to celebrate the 2024 cherry blossom season, festivities will run from March 20 to April 14. The annual Sakura Sunday festival will be held at the ...
Interior Alaskan forests have only six native tree species: white spruce, black spruce, quaking aspen, balsam poplar, larch (tamarack) and paper birch. Northern Canadian forests have all of those, plus jack pine, balsam fir and lodgepole pine. Since northern Canada and interior Alaska share the same grueling climate and extremes of daylength, why are the Canadian tree species absent from ...
It is common for people in interior Alaska and corresponding areas of northwestern Canada to use the name cottonwood when referring to one widespread variety of deciduous tree.
A tree's age can be easily determined by counting its growth rings, as any Boy or Girl Scout knows. Annually, the tree adds new layers of wood which thicken during the growing season and thin during the winter. These annual growth rings are easily discernible (and countable) in cross-sections of the tree's trunk. In good growing years, when sunlight and rainfall are plentiful, the growth rings ...
I eventually found a tree with a spiral lightning mark and it followed the spiral grain exactly. One tree, of course, proves nothing. "But why should the tree spiral? More speculation here: Foliage tends to be thicker on the south side of the tree because of better sunlight.