i recently watched Ildikรณ Enyedi's Silent Friend, a film whose main character is an elder ginkgo tree, befriended by a three different people across three different time periodsโin 1908 by a German university's first female student, in 1972 by another young student, and in 2020
this flower finds was originally posted onย IGย as a fruit finds post on 6/14/24 at the beginning of fleshy tree fruit season. summer & fall are fruit (seed) season for ๐ฐ๐ฝ๐ถ๐ธ๐พ๐๐ฟ๐ด๐๐ผ๐ or among flowering trees. some seeds manifest as ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ that we can eat like this cherry below. see
this bark bits was originally posted onย IGย on 2/4/24 ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ bark is unique. young trunks have smooth, pale, mottled (spotted or blotched with patches of brown, green, gray, and white) bark that people say resembles a camouflage pattern. the bark of older, mature sycamores develops rough grey scales
this bits about bark was originally posted onย IGย on 1/28/24 winter is a great time to test your bark knowledge, so we shared different barks that winter, starting with hackberry bark. a treeโs bark is like their skin. what we see when we look at bark,
no, not those NFTs, Nitrogen Fixing Trees! this NFT appreciation post was originally posted onย IGย on 8/6/23 all plants and trees need nitrogen to live and grow. there is a lot of nitrogen in our air in its gas form, but many trees canโt use nitrogen
"the creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn." - Ralph Waldo Emerson this seed stories was originally posted onย IGย on 6/16/23 seeds are truly incredible. they contain the instructions for that seed to become a sprout, then a sapling, then a full tree.
this leaf lesson was originally posted on IG on 5/25/23 starting off with some leaf basics for deciduous treesโtrees that lose their leaves and become bare for part of each year. ๐ซVENATION๐ซ just like human vines, leaves have veins that deliver water & nutrients to each leaf
although iโm not a fan of hierarchies, i did want to make a quick note about how trees are commonly classified these daysโalthough this is just one form of knowledge or way of seeing/ knowing. we can think of these categories as groupings (rather than a hierarchy) that