Oakland Cemetery in Iowa City

As I finish my final months in Iowa City, I'm creating a blog about trees in lovely Oakland Cemetery.

Check it out: Oakland Cemetery Trees.

Fall Foliage Tour

Next Sunday, October 30 at 11 a.m. come to the main entrance at Green-Wood for a fall tree tour led by yours truly and sponsored by the Indoor Gardening Society.

Botanical Art

Juried Botanical Art Exhibition

November 04 – December 30, 2015

Opening Reception
Wednesday, November 4th, 6:00 – 8:00 PM

New York Design Center
200 Lexington Avenue

For more info, click here. 

Image: © 2005 Alexander Viazmensky
Cortinarius sp. (Mushrooms

Fringe tree

Chionanthus virginicus in bloom on May 31.

Slime Mold

Tree Painter Glenn Smith

Meet Glenn Smith, painter of Green-Wood's trees.

Fall Foliage

Get to Green-Wood to check out the fall foliage while the colors are at their brightest.

According to foliage calendars and reports, Brooklyn is supposed to peak around the last week of this month. (Image from Colliding Galaxies.)

Listening to Trees

Golden Chain Tree

 

Laburnum anagyroides

Chinese fringetree

Chionanthus retusus

Horse Chestnut

Right now, if you went into Green-Wood and looked at a horse chestnut, you'd see branches with big sticky terminal buds. Inside the buds contain the beginnings of the flower panicles you'll see in spring. For more peeks inside a horse chestnut bud, go to the blog "Beyond the Human Eye."

Doors

from 9/10/09

Waking up to go to the cemetery isn't always a walk in the park, but this helps a little:

Dawn Redwood

The dawn redwood, or Metasequoia, is dropping its leaves.

Golden Rain Tree

The yellow clusters of Koelreuteria flowers gave way in the summer to balloon-like green pods...




which all turned brown a couple weeks ago.