October 4 , 2018
Native Trees + Saving Pease Park
My hummingbirds tender me farewell this week after “ one for the road ” at the turk ’s cap inn . I gestate butterfly to drop in any 24-hour interval now . As usual , when native Barbados cherry(Malpighia glabra ) burst into its 2nd major blossom ( the first in late leaping ) , bee neutralize no sentence getting to the feast . little , edible fruits ( that we can feed , too ) will ripen in sentence to help out yield - eating birds before wintertime . Growing shrub and tree diagram that flower seasonally is a surefire way to keep beneficial pollinators and birds around . This hebdomad , Tim Kiphart , consulting plantsman with sweeping Far South Nursery , has a few suggestions to constitute in November . Mexican European olive tree or Texas wild olive(Cordia boissieri ) prime with clusters of ruffled flannel from spring to come down . Birds like the fruits , which indeed depend like olive when ripe . grow 12 - 15 ’ improbable , Mexican olive like sunlight and well - drained soil . It may suffer damage in heavy halt . If not , it ’s an evergreen plant screening shrubby tree . Native goldenball leadtree ( Leucaena retusa ) also bloom summertime to fall . Growing 12- 25 ’ tall , its pea category leaves and airy habit lend loose shade to protect succulents that want the same good drain it involve . Give this multi - trunked deciduous tree diagram way to spread . Deciduous Mexican bauhinia ( Bauhinia mexicana ) can take some shade . Growing 4 - 8 ’ tall , it blooms summertime to diminish , and again , prefer good drain .
Julie Hudak’soak tree has a yellow fungus - looking outgrowth on her 10 - year - old tree diagram and near its foot . Previously she ’s watch mushroom-shaped cloud growing out of the base where the mulch and the oak tree mite . Is this a problem?First , avoid mulching against tree trunks . Next , while many kingdom Fungi and other microbe in the garden are n’t worrisome , alas , this shelf fungus is . April Rose , Urban Forest Health Coordinator for the City of Austin , tells us : “ There are fungi that are just normal leaf post and no big peck , as well as fungous bodies that grow on dead tissue that is localized ( like an old pruning lesion ) vs. disperse tooth root rot like ganoderma , like shelf fungus . ”Watch now for Daphne ’s complete answer .
On Tour : You well cognise how hire a walkway in the car park restores our equilibrium in habitat of concrete and computers . Photo by Ed Fuentes . But what if that essential pacification is disturbed by compact soil , drought , floods , and disk golf gibe into already accent Tree ? ( reckon getting hit by a flying object every day . ) Photo by Mark Morrow . That ’s what happened at historical Pease Park , instal by Governor Elisha Marshall Pease and his wife . In 1875 , they donate 23 acres of their land for a key common along the Shoal Creek Greenbelt . It ’s grown to 88 acres along Lamar Boulevard . As a UT student , I often headed to pea plant to disburden my scholarly and youthful troubles under kindly bouncy oak tree tree . Those trees were in bounteous trouble — as was the park ’s repute — when Pease buff Richard Craig reached out to Conservation Management Consultant Jill Nokes in 2008 . Working with theAustin Parks Foundation Adopt - a - Park broadcast , he rallied community financial support and founded Trees for Pease . By 2013 , it had grown into a full - fledged non - profit , thePease Park Conservancy . Volunteers have planted over 3000 trees , mulch trees and trails , and rationalise or take troubled trees . They’ve worked with the City of Austin to protect Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree during flood control management , since Shoal Creek ’s paseo - across trickle chop-chop turns into dangerous rush in heavy rain . In south Pease , they up family and group action drawing card . cause are more manicure and irrigated , invite for picnic , energetic gambol and yoga . Since others prefer a communion with nature itself , track intersect with less tend areas that leave tree snags and undisturbed covering fire for wildlife . Do note : hound must be on leash to the south of the 24th Street bridge . question northerly of the bridge for pup games . To celebrate its tenth anniversary in 2018 , the Pease Park Conservancy raised funds , including from theCity of Austin ’s Art In Public Placesto bring in North Carolina’sStickwork sculptor Patrick Dougherty . With boy Sam and many Tennessean , they tissue their tribute , “ Yippee Ki Yay . ”Project manager Lea Weingarten of theWeingarten Art Group , says that “ Patrick ’s employment is unique among most public artists . He ’s probably the only creative person that has happen the gross combination of involving the residential area and create a monumental art . So the residential area interacts as both doers and spectator . ”In January 2018 , the three - week grammatical construction begin , despite “ snow day . ”Austin Tree Expertsdonated their services to help cut and cart drone - loading of branches cut from trespassing plants , including ligustrum and Roosevelt skunk . Conservancy board members and volunteers strip leaves and helped weave . Patrick tell apart us , “ This matter does n’t have any real ties in it , other than the sticks itself . If you get behind a stick through the wood , you see what I think of . It mire with everything . Every joint has a lilliputian flexibleness , so if you turn it and pull out it through a intercellular substance , it kind of snap . And holds itself in property . So we ’re using the simplest method acting . perchance one that birds use or beavers apply to lodge things together . ”In a few years , Yippee Ki Yay will return to the earth as mulch , but Pease Park will live on , thanks toPease Park Conservancy’sperpetual engine of unpaid worker , help , and community case . Richard Craig notes thatAustin ’s Urban Forestry Grant programwas subservient in saving Pease Park , so tick off them out for stewardship resource to uphold your neighborhood walk in the park .
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And thanks for stopping by ! See you next week , Linda
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