It is 3 months til Christmas! Do you know where your lights are? Do you know how tangled they have become since you put them away last year? Remember pushing them aside when you were digging for the camping gear? Recall moving them to a new location when you reorganized during your Spring Cleaning spree?… Read more »
Oak Wilt Is Here in Ontario
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Contact UsAutumn Anticipation
Autumn officially arrives this weekend. That makes it the perfect time for apple picking, pumpkin carving, and putting up the last of the preserves for winter. It is also when the leaves start to change on area trees, transforming our world into a rainbow of colours. Isn’t Mother Nature great to not only offer an… Read more »
Pick a Pear This Fall
September is a great time of year. The heat of summer is (mostly) behind us. The fall harvest has begun. Tomatoes, beans, peppers, beets, cauliflower, broccoli, and plenty more veggies are overflowing in gardens and at farmer’s markets across Southwestern Ontario. The bounty doesn’t end there, as apples are beginning to ripen, raspberry bushes and… Read more »
Hemlock: A Logical Choice
Socrates was a pretty smart guy. A philosopher from Ancient Greece, he is credited with advancing theories in Western Philosophies surrounding ethics, logic and epistemology. While his student Plato helped to make his words and thoughts famous after his death, one aspect of his life is well-known. After disagreeing with the State, as his punishment,… Read more »
Back to School with CLC
Time for kids to head back to school! I know parents are itching to hand their little ones back to the teachers again. It has been a long summer. Whether your children are heading to preschool, kindergarten, or grade school, there is plenty they can learn about trees. From basic concepts, like “what is a tree?”,… Read more »
One, Two, Three; Don’t Touch Me!
We are blessed in Ontario to be surrounded by an abundance of trees, shrubs, vines and other flora. Some provide shelter and nesting places for birds, animals and a myriad of insects. Others are a great source of food for man and beast alike. They often improve air quality, can prevent soil erosion, as well as… Read more »
Back to School and Back to Nature
Back-to-School ads are all over the newspapers, tv, radios, and online. They are talking about backpacks, lunch bags, stuffed pencil cases, new outfits, and even electronics. Articles suggest how to introduce your child to kindergarten, when to bring bedtime back to a more reasonable hour, and why its important to provide healthy snacks and meals… Read more »
A Tree’s First Defense: Bark
Bark What is bark? Merriam Webster defines it as; “the tough exterior covering of a woody root or stem;specifically : the tissues outside the cambium that include an inner layer especially of secondary phloem and an outer layer of periderm” Interesting, but why are trees covered in it? Well, there are a few reasons. Bark acts likes… Read more »
A Home For…
Trees. They are glorious things. Trees provide us with oxygen, and use up some of our excess air pollution, like that nasty carbon dioxide stuff that we are so good at producing. They create shade in the summer, reducing our sweat equity, plus saving us money on air conditioning. Trees also bring us peace and… Read more »
Time to Water Your Trees
It’s that time of year again. After suffering through a heat wave last week that seemed like it would never quit, the City of London issued its first Tree Watering Alert. We might have had moisture in the air (felt like pea soup to breathe), but there wasn’t any water falling on the ground. That… Read more »