Tree of the Week: Southern Live Oak
By Mark Halpin, Forestry Manager The Southern live oak (Quercus virginiana) is the iconic tree of the Deep South, where its enormous spreading limbs, often adorned with Spanish moss and […]
Tree of the Week: Silver Maple
By: Mark Halpin, Forestry Manager In our area you’d be hard pressed to find someone with good things to say about the silver maple, Acer saccharinum. The native maples of […]
Tree of the Week: Cucumber Magnolia
By Mark Halpin, Forestry Manager Magnolia acuminata, cucumber magnolia, our only Missouri native magnolia, is seldom even recognized as a member of that illustrious genus that graces springtime and early […]
Tree of the Week: Chestnut Oak
By: Mark Halpin, Forestry Manager Chestnut oak, Quercus montana (also sometimes listed as Q. prinus) is not one of the 22 oaks native to Missouri. Nor is it native to […]
Sweetbay magnolia
As spring nears its end in St. Louis, only a handful of flowers remain, fizzling out like the final bittersweet bursts of a fireworks display. The heavy hitters, the dogwoods, […]
Tree of the Week: Basswood and the Tillia genus
“When the shade begin to be heavy and the midges fill the woods, and when the western sky is a curtain of black nimbus slashed by the jagged scimitar of […]
Tree of the Week: Southern Magnolia
By: Mark Halpin, Forestry Manager The southern magnolia, Magnolia grandiflora, holds a special place in the hearts of southerners. A resident of Louisiana once told me that when his grandfather’s […]
Tree of the Week: Black Locust
By: Mark Halpin, Forestry Manager Robinia pseudoacacia, black locust, does not get a lot of respect among the arborists, foresters and horticulturists of North America, although it is common both […]
Tree of the Week – White Fringetree
By: Mark Halpin, Forestry Manager Chionanthus virginicus, white fringetree, has one of the most unusual flower displays of any North American flowering tree (the only serious competition comes from smoketree, […]
Tree of the Week – Hawthorn
By: Mark Halpin, Forestry Manager We covered green hawthorn in a previous installment, but the Crataegus genus is worth revisiting for too many reasons to pass up. Hawthorn blooms are […]
