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Monday Mushroom: The Common Earthball (Scleroderma citrinum)
Monday Mushroom: The Common Earthball (Scleroderma citrinum) The Monday Mushroom for today is the common earthball. The common earthball might have common in its name, but it’s anything but. For one...
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Twenty Gift Ideas for Someone Who Likes Trees
Twenty Gift Ideas for Someone Who Likes Trees Are you looking for gift ideas for someone who likes trees? Well, look no further. At ArborTrue, we’ve compiled a list of twenty great ideas for the...
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Orb Weaver Spiders
Orb Weaver Spiders Spiders are a very important part of our ecosystem. They play a vital role in eating insects. One type of spider we wanted to highlight were the orb weaver spiders. They have a...
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Mushroom Monday: Saffron Milkcaps
Mushroom Monday: Saffron Milkcaps No, these aren’t reddish golden-colored caps worn by dairy workers. They’re in fact today’s Mushroom Monday mushroom! One of the most interesting things about the...
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Benefits of Trees
Benefits of Trees We recently read an article about seventy five trees being planted in Dallas, Texas. Planting trees can be a wonderful thing and we thought we’d highlight some of the benefits that...
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Spider Mites
Spider Mites Spider mites are a common creature in the garden. They can live on hundreds of different kinds of plants and there could be hundreds of them in a single colony. In today’s post, we...
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Mushroom Monday: Dryad’s Saddle
Mushroom Monday: Dryad’s Saddle Today’s Mushroom Monday mushroom is Dryad’s Saddle (Cerioporus squamosus). Saddle up and get ready to learn about this amazing mushroom. Dryad’s saddle does sort of...
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What Exactly is Honey?
What Exactly is Honey? When you think about bees, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? That’s right, honey. That golden, sweet, delicious liquid. Although you might be familiar with honey,...
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The American Chestnut
The American Chestnut In December, you might be thinking of roasted chestnuts. If that got you thinking about chestnut trees, you might have come across the story of the American chestnut (Castanea...
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Mushroom Monday: Pear-shaped Puffball
Mushroom Monday: Pear-shaped Puffball Welcome Mushroom Monday fans! Today’s Mushroom Monday mushroom is the pear-shaped puffball. It’s shaped like a fruit, is found in different places than many...
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Professional Winter Tree Care: Three Services from ArborTrue
Professional Winter Tree Care: Three Services from ArborTrue Winter is a great time of year for a number of different tree care activities. While trees are inactive, and before spring growth starts,...
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Why Evergreens are Ever Green
Why Evergreens are Ever Green In winter we can’t help but notice evergreens. With Christmas trees indoors and evergreens retaining their green color outdoors, they can be hard to miss. Have you ever...
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Lady Beetles
Lady Beetles On our TrueTreeTalk blog we’ve referenced beneficial insects. Today we’re going to highlight a very important one, the lady beetle. Lady beetles, also known as ladybugs, are predatory...
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Mushroom Monday: Velvet Foot Mushrooms
Mushroom Monday: Velvet Foot Mushrooms Today’s Mushroom Monday mushroom is the Velvet Foot Mushroom (Flammulina velutipes). The velvet foot mushroom is an interesting mushroom because of how it feels,...
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Ants and Aphids
Ants and Aphids On our TreeTalkBlog we’ve mentioned mushrooms having symbiotic relationships with trees. This is a relationship where both the mushrooms and the trees benefit. An example mushroom...
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Digging into Loam
Digging into Loam If you like trees like we do, you may have come across the term loam. You may know that it has something to do with soil but may have wondered exactly what it is. Well, here’s the...
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Mushroom Monday: Splitgill Mushrooms
Mushroom Monday: Splitgill Mushrooms Happy Mushroom Monday everyone! Today’s Mushroom Monday is the Splitgill Mushroom (Schizophyllum commune). What do Splitgill Mushrooms Look Like? The caps of...
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New Year’s Resolutions for Your Landscape and Trees
New Year’s Resolutions for Your Landscape and Trees Each January, when the new year starts, many of us make New Year’s resolutions. Whether they are for health, finances, or family, we often look for...
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Blue Jays
Blue Jays If you look out your window, and up into trees, you might see more than a few birds. In today’s post, we take a look at one bird you might see, the blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata)....
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Mushroom Monday: Parasol Mushrooms
Mushroom Monday: Parasol Mushrooms Happy Mushroom Monday everyone! Today’s Mushroom Monday mushroom is the Parasol Mushroom (Macrolepiota procera). What do Parasol Mushrooms Look Like? The parasol...
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