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/
“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/
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/
Plant communities persist through time and record the history that they’ve lived through:
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
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
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:
On the evening of Thursday the 21st of November, beginning at 7:30PM, the Philadelphia Botanical Club will have its monthly public meeting, and Rob Fleming will talk about ecological restoration, in a lecture titled ‘A Gloriously Futile Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Restoration Attempt in Central’.
For more information, see here: http://darwin.ansp.org/hosted/botany_club/meeting.html
On the evening of Thursday the 23rd of May, beginning at 7:30PM, the Philadelphia Botanical Club will have its monthly public meeting, and Will Ryan (of the Academy of Natural Sciences) will talk about local plant ecology, in a lecture titled ‘Investigating Geoedaphic Meadows, Glades, and Grasslands in Southeastern Pennsylvania’.
For more information, see here: http://darwin.ansp.org/hosted/botany_club/meeting.html
On the evening of Thursday the 25th of April, beginning at 7:30PM, the Philadelphia Botanical Club will have its monthly public meeting, and Anthony Aiello (of the Morris Arboretum) will talk about history and horticulture, in a lecture titled ‘Japanese Flowering Cherries: A 100-Year-Long Love Affair’.
For more information, see here: http://darwin.ansp.org/hosted/botany_club/meeting.html
