PHILLY TREES

People are always asking me: Jon Spruce, how would you define ‘nature’ using only one word? One word?  That’s easy.  Patterns .  The o...

The best part about spring is its inconsistency.  Summer is one long battery of heat, sun, sweat and glare.  The best part of summer ...

The other day, I was snaking my way through the streets of South Philly, trying to avoid baseball traffic on my way back to the rat-race of...

Arthur Plotnik writes in The Urban Tree Book :  …most tree species are out of their element in the urban scene.  Between pollutants, dr...

Tonight is the rising of the Budding Trees Moon and, with that rising, spring has begun in Philadelphia. Sunny days, pleasant evenings an...

What’s the most common odonym in the United States?  Second Street. What’s the ninth most common odonym in the United States?  Oak. What...

I always knew the exact tree I wanted to hunt down for the beginning of this blog.  There was never any doubt in my mind.  It just took a wh...