Every plant has a history, but some have a bit more than others do, as you can see and read, by clicking on this link: https://www.bartramsgarden.org/franklinia-series-finding-franklinia-alatamaha-part-one/
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Weirs of stone and wood
History is embedded in landscapes and waterscapes and persists through time, though generally only partially, and the marks that are left are different in different places:
The Woodlands Arboretum
Woodlands Cemetery in Philadelphia is an arboretum, and a virtual tour of the trees is available: https://www.woodlandsphila.org/arboretum
Urban Landscape Inspirations
Urban environments are highly variable and therefore not only can have but need to have a diverse botanical palette to draw on, to build their ecological landscapes: https://www.ecolandscaping.org/08/designing-ecological-landscapes/landscape-design/urban-landscape-inspirations-from-native-plant-communities/
Green spaces in urban environments
“Cities are constantly changing”, as Dr. Brenda Lin writes, and green spaces are always integral to the fabric and the history and the people in urban environments: https://blog.csiro.au/green-spaces-urban-environments/
Tree Talk
Ned Barnard and Pauline Gray write a regular column, focused on trees, for the Chestnut Hill Local:
https://www.chestnuthilllocal.com/category/tree-talk/
Their writing gets at the biology, the history, and the culture surrounding the trees, and so much more.
And for more about some trees, and other plants, of Northwest Philadelphia….
https://www.chestnuthilllocal.com/2014/07/17/mt-airy-environmentalist-gives-lawn-wildlife/
A Lost Botanic World In Aldgate
Plant communities persist through time and record the history that they’ve lived through:
Forests in the City: Understanding Urban-driven Changes in Plant Recruitment Dynamics
On the evening of Thursday the 27th of February (tonight), beginning at 7:30PM, the Philadelphia Botanical Club will have its monthly public meeting, and Max Piana, of University of Massachusetts Amherst and the US Forest Service, will talk about urban plants, in a lecture titled ‘Forests in the City: Understanding Urban-driven Changes in Plant Recruitment Dynamics’.
For more information, see here: http://darwin.ansp.org/hosted/botany_club/meeting.html
Ecological Restoration and its Role in Wildlife Management: Building Plant Communities to Support Animals
On the evening of Thursday the 23rd of January, beginning at 7:30PM, the Philadelphia Botanical Club will have its monthly public meeting, and Mike McGraw, of Applied Ecological Services, will talk about plants and animals, in a lecture titled ‘Ecological Restoration and its Role in Wildlife Management: Building Plant Communities to Support Animals’.
For more information, see here: http://darwin.ansp.org/hosted/botany_club/meeting.html
The Delmarva Lichen Manual: A New Botanical Resource for the Atlantic Coast
On the evening of Thursday the 19th of December, beginning at 7:30PM, the Philadelphia Botanical Club will have its monthly public meeting, and James Lendemer, from the New York Botanical Garden, will talk about lichens, in a lecture titled ‘The Delmarva Lichen Manual: A New Botanical Resource for the Atlantic Coast’.
For more information, see here: http://darwin.ansp.org/hosted/botany_club/meeting.html
For more about the manual, see here: http://www.torreybotanical.org/publications/memoirs/memoirs-of-the-torrey-botanical-society-volume-28-delmarva-lichens-an-illustrated-manual/
Photographs, by James Lendemer, of the lichens Cladonia subtenuis, Lobaria quercizans, and Parmotrema hypotropum:
