October 23, 2021:

Fall Foliage Tour

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

FALL FOLIAGE TOUR

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2021 2:00 PM

Woodlawn is a Level II Arboretum with Over 6000 trees on-site. We hope you will join us for a Walking Tour to view the Fall Foliage led by Bill Logan of Urban Arborists.

William Bryant Logan is the author of Sprout Lands, Oak, Air and Dirt, the last of which was made into an award-winning documentary. He is on the faculty of the New York Botanical Garden. He has spent the last three decades working in trees. He is a certified arborist, and founder and president of Urban Arborists, Inc., a Brooklyn-based tree company. Logan has won numerous Quill and Trowel Awards from the Garden Writers of America, and was a contributing editor to House Beautiful, House and Garden, and Garden Design magazines, as well as a regular garden writer for the New York Times. He won a 2012 Senior Scholar Award from the New York State chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA), as well as a True Professional of Arboriculture award from the international ISA. He also won an NEH grant to translate Calderón de la Barca and has published many translations from the Spanish, including the work of García Lorca, Ramón del Valle Inclán, and Calderón.

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Walking Tour: Tree Stories at The Evergreens Cemetery  

Saturday, October 16, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

​Join us for a guided tree tour of the cemetery. Enjoy the spectacular Fall foliage as we explore the grounds of the cemetery and learn to identify a variety of tree species. We will also hear fascinating stories and lore relating to various tree species. Participants will learn the answers to questions such as: "Why is a London plane from London? What does a sassafras have to do with sassafras tea? Why is the gum of a black gum black and the gum of a sweetgum sweet? How do you open a hickory nut and which ones would you want to open? What is the tastiest oak in the East?" and many more. 

​This tree walk with noted arborist and author William Bryant Logan mixes lore, history, science and recipes to make a memorable 90 minutes in one of our great urban forests. 

​Family friendly event. Pre-registration is required. Please click HERE.


Meet the Author - Sprout Lands by William Logan

THE ONCE AND FUTURE WOOD

Arborist William Bryant Logan recovers the lost tradition that sustained human life and culture for ten millennia.

Once, farmers knew how to make a living hedge and fed their flocks on tree-branch hay. Rural people knew how to prune hazel to foster abundance: both of edible nuts and of straight, strong, flexible rods for bridges, walls, and baskets. Townspeople cut their beeches to make charcoal to fuel ironworks. Shipwrights shaped oaks to make hulls. No place could prosper without its inhabitants knowing how to cut their trees so they would sprout again.

Pruning the trees didn’t destroy them. Rather, it created the healthiest, most sustainable and most diverse woodlands that we have ever known. In this journey from the English fens to Spain, Japan, and California, William Bryant Logan rediscovers what was once an everyday ecology. He offers us both practical knowledge about how to live with trees to mutual benefit and hope that humans may again learn what the persistence and generosity of trees can teach.

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The Thousand Year Wood: Past, Present and Future of People and Oaks - Talk at Today's Horticulture Symposium

Celebrating 50 years of the Professional Horticulture Program

This daylong symposium is hosted by the Professional Gardener Alumni Association of Longwood Gardens.

Bill will be speaking at 9am - the symposium is sold out but will be webcast, click on the link for more details!



Bill Logan, Urban Arborists President, will speak about Specialty Tree Pruning at Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Time: 11:30am-12:15pm

Location: Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 1000 Washington Avenue, Brooklyn NY

 

 


Bill Logan will give a talk entitled The Thousand-Year Wood: Our Enduring Reliance on Trees

Time: 9:15-10:15am

Location: The Native Plant Center of Westchester Community College - Classroom Building C200.