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    Ancient Chinese ginkgo becomes tourist hit after leaves form perfect golden carpet

    Beautiful. Reminds me a little bit of Andy Goldsworthy's work:
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    Content Marketing: Rising Above the Hacks

    This is great. Face-to-face; treat people like people; listening, like Treehumper said. That's a great story about the HOA. The most effective arborist at building his business (in my opinion) in my area (not me) does just that with his clients. I think you make a good point, treehead32...
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    Tree Names Tell a Story

    Tuebor - you must have quite a library of tree books! Awesome. Anyone have any ideas about "hornbeam"?
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    Tree Names Tell a Story

    Momentum on this thread! Yes! So cool about "Robinia"...any idea where "Locust" comes from? With Gleditsia also?
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    Tree Names Tell a Story

    That's an awesome resource! Osage wood was used for pulley-blocks - so cool. Thanks.
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    Tree Names Tell a Story

    So our scientific names actually grew out of someone's local, common names...i.e. Virgil's in classical Rome. Very cool. Thanks Kevin. I always appreciate it when you chime in. It also makes sense why Linnaeus developed the system because of the immense confusion that common names cause...
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    Tree Names Tell a Story

    The little I know about Osage Oranges is that there was a native American tribe known as the "Osage". I don't know who picked "orange" or why. I know the wood was also used for...bows? or arrows? or both? My old boss called them "Hedge Apples." "Apples" obviously describes the fruit. And...
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    Tree Names Tell a Story

    Wasn't "Douglas" a bit of a character? I think I recall reading about him somewhere...maybe it was the Wild Trees. Thanks for the replies everybody!!
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    Trees from a distance

    Koelreuteria paniculata?
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    ITCC best top 5 alltime

    Morris Arboretum is just down the street from my house...Beautiful place. Wow - would have been awesome to watch the ITCC there!
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    Tree Names Tell a Story

    Guess I'll go first...I'll keep it simple. Kentucky coffee tree - Gymnocladus dioica Apparently the American pioneers, in the absence of the real deal as they made their way westward, roasted these seeds, boiled them in hot water, then poured the concoction into their tin cups. And hoped for...
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    Content Marketing: Rising Above the Hacks

    "Rolex doesn't compete against Timex...." I like that. Thanks for the replies treehumper and Crimsonking. As I've grown in my understanding of how sales and marketing works, I've learned that the best salespeople aren't "sale-sy" at all. With any product or service that I've bought, the one...
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    Content Marketing: Rising Above the Hacks

    What sells tree work? Seems like there are two things - fear & mis-education. Arborists like you all here on the Buzz seem to be the exception that proves the rule. You sell tree work because you want to take care of trees, not frighten a homeowner so you can bilk them of an extra grand. Most...
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    Tree Names Tell a Story

    I used to love the blank stare I would get when someone asked me the name of a tree and I would reply, high and might, "Tsuga canadensis." For many of us, being fluent in the latin names of trees is something like a rite of passage, proving that we are serious arborists and tree care...
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    Best Tree ID Field Guide?

    thanks guys. guess i gotta get a smartphone... assuming they don't make these apps for flip phones? haha...
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    Best Tree ID Field Guide?

    Just looking for some current recommendations on what people are using for Tree ID field guides these days... I know Tchukki Anderson gave a really positive review for "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Trees" by More and White. Does anybody have this? I can't tell if it is more of a textbook...
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    Climbing Arborist needed in sunny Philadelphia

    I once saw Mike reduce an entire Bradford Pear by 16% using only a Jedi mind trick. True story.
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    Home birthing hippies

    Congrats Jon! We also had 2 VBAC's...way to stick it to ACOG! Bits of our story is that my first was posterior with a gigantic head and she got stuck, so she was a C-section (in California). 2 years later in Tennessee, we learn that it's really hard to find OBGYN's willing to perform VBAC's...
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    christmas lights

    I'll third that! 3rd year in a row I've visited Longwood with my family to see their work...Nice job fellas! My four year old, staring at a row of copper beeches wrapped to the very tips asked, "How do they do that????"
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    Thoughts on Sterling Tendril?

    I like Tendril, most of my mileage on it being 1:1 on the wrench. It is super lightweight, which is nice. I mostly climb on Poison Ivy/Calamine, so I found it to be a bit stretchy in comparison to those lines, so I liked it better for work positioning than as a straight up access line. Like Tony...

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