“Dear Arborist: My young tree is growing crazily. I know I should trim it, but I have no idea where to start. Help!”
Read More
Arden Park has planted over 3,000 trees as a neighborhood over the last 15 years as part of the Sacramento Tree Foundation’s NeighborWoods initiative. Jane Hagedorn, the first President of the Board of Directors of the Sacramento Tree Foundation and a long-time resident of Arden Park, and her neighbors, Gregg Fishman and Frank Moran, worked together to organize the community plantings.
Read More
There are many reasons why trees are so important to our world. For me, the most compelling reason revolves around fostering and sustaining healthy communities. My introduction to the wonderfully dynamic world of trees began with bicycles.
Read More
If you don’t love trees already, you will learn to love them living in River Park. The soil is deep, rich and sandy, and trees grow to remarkable size in…
Read More
Matt Buland, one of our NeighborWoods coordinators suggests, “There should be no marathons, only short sprints to the next shade tree. BANG!!! We’re off.” Read more to see what he means…
Read More
Enjoy winter foliage, and year-round air-cleaning with these popular evergreen trees for our region! These trees are showcased in our online Shady Eighty guide. Strawberry tree – Something showy on this small…
Read More
Dear Arborist, I have a flowering pear tree in my yard that a lot of brown leaves on it. I haven’t stopped watering it, what is going on? What can…
Read More
We offer a wide variety of great trees that won’t run up your water bill. Use our Shady Eighty Tree Guide to choose a tree for your yard or just to learn more about some of our region’s trees. Here are a few of our favorites…
Read More
Every tree planting project starts with who, when, what, where and why. A great deal of thought goes into who needs to be at our initial meeting. When we work with schools, that group usually consists of the principal, a teacher and/or a parent volunteer. Community Forester Matt Buland’s first meeting with Riverview STEM Academy, an elementary school in Rancho Cordova, was quite different.
Read More
On Saturday, May 21 I was reminded as I watched volunteers examine a particularly large, umbrella-like, American elm on 24th Street as to why we want to preserve these trees in the first place.
Read More