Pine bark beetles
Hello gents, first off thanks for the podcast, will try to remember to leave a review later! Slight backstory, father had a well manicured landscape with many trees. He passed a couple years ago, and my mom by no fault of her own is having some of those trees taken down. Two are long leaf pines, one is a loblolly I believe, loblolly was struck by lightning and still living but posed a possible danger. One long leaf was infected with beetles and just in the past year has turned completely brown. The last long leaf still looks healthy but really close to her bedroom so it was time for that one as well. Both in South Carolina, she is a county away, approximately 20 miles away from me. The two pronged question here is will there be a future issue for the pines left in her yard due to the likely beetles that killed the one pine? Second part is I asked for a section of the trunk of each pine to be cut into rounds to use in my landscape as a pathway, is there a risk of me transferring insects where they should not be or any other issues I should think about before placing these? The hope is to provide a history of not only the trees life but also my father in the sense that they have been in this house for over 45 years, so these trees saw basically my whole family grow.
If you could only plant one tree across America, which tree would it be? I'm thinking for beauty, posterity, utility, adaptability, cost, and of course for the environment.
If you could only plant one tree across America, which tree would it be? I'm thinking for beauty, posterity, utility, adaptability, cost, and of course for the environment.
Using googly eyes to promote “ugly” trees?
Alex & Casey! I recently came across a fascinating study that found that consumers were more likely to buy “ugly” vegetables when they had googly eyes on them or when they were given human names. Two questions: (1) What do you think about applying this to trees that some might consider “ugly” but provide great benefits? (2) If you think it’s an idea worth trying, which tree species would you start with? Thanks! https://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/how-to-sell-an-ugly-vegetable-give-it-googly-eyes/