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04/23/2026

In anticipation of tomorrow’s National Arbor Day, we want to acknowledge the importance of caring for and maintaining your trees. From mulching to pruning to calling in a professional, this UF/IFAS Gardening Solutions article can help you with the details. https://gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu/care/pruning/pruning-and-maintaining-trees/

03/21/2026

Way cool

The Famous Trees of Florida Road Trip takes you to 11 well-known tree tunnels, boardwalks, and famous trees across the state. Along the way, you’ll visit a historic tree where a treaty was once signed between early settlers and Native Americans, walk along a wooden boardwalk through a quiet cypress swamp, and see a tree rising right out of the clear water of a natural spring. The drive also leads you down cool, shady roads lined with large oaks and other old trees that have stood for many years. From peaceful forest paths to wide canopies over the road, this trip shows the many kinds of trees that grow across Florida and gives you plenty of great places to stop, walk, and take it all in.

📍Treaty Oak (Jacksonville)
📍Banyan Tree Tunnel (Stuart)
📍Silver Glen Springs Palm Tree
📍Highlands Hammock State Park
📍Lady Liberty Bald Cypress (Big Tree Park Cypress)
📍Banyan Trees (Hugh Taylor Birch State Park)
📍The Fairchild Oak (Bulow Creek State Park)
📍Strangler Fig (Fakahatchee Strand)
📍Big Cypress National Preserve
📍Old Senator Tree (St. Augustine)
📍Fred The Tree (Florida Keys)

02/01/2026

PRUNING NOTES for TREES

Young Shade and Flowering Trees

The most critical thing young trees do in the first three years after being planted is to establish their roots. A year or 2 after planting is a good time to start the pruning that will train them and give them the proper form and structure they’ll need for future growth. This is best done in late Fall to late Winter.

When pruning a young tree, first be sure it has a dominant central leader like a trunk or major branch. Next, select the permanent branches that will be the structural framework. These branches should have a wide angle of attachment to the main trunk for greatest strength and be uniformly distributed around and up and down the main trunk (vertical and radial branch distribution).

While selecting the permanent branches you may need to leave a few temporary branches to help the tree grow. These temporary branches aid in caliper development during the early years and can be removed after 3-4 years or as soon as the permanent branches have filled out. Prune anything that is not a permanent or temporary branch.

Suckers (growth at the tree base) and watersprouts (vigorous vertical growth in the canopy) are not beneficial to trees and can be removed anytime.

Mature Shade and Flowering Trees

Mature trees need only occasional pruning to maintain plant health. This typically includes removal of dead wood. This process is called "dead wooding" or "cleaning out". Crown thinning is another pruning technique that involves "opening up" the canopies of deciduous trees. This procedure allows sunlight pe*******on into the interior tree canopy and results in a stronger tree during adverse weather events. Another popular pruning technique for mature trees is “thinning out”. This reduces the height and spread of the tree while maintaining the natural shape.

11/20/2025

Still getting it done after all these years. Life is good.

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05/09/2025

Yessir

Two men have been found guilty of criminal damage for felling a landmark sycamore tree in northern England.