Businesses and individuals are helping Benicia Tree Foundation continue its mission. Benicia Tree Foundation wants to acknowledge the businesses and individuals who made donations to the Foundation in the past month. Solano County Supervisor Monica Brown donated $500. Supervisor Brown’s district includes all of Benicia and she has welcomed volunteers at several of our Tree […]
Five trees planted at Francesca Terrace Park. The Starlight Montesorri School asked Benicia Tree Foundation for advice on planning an Earth Day celebration suitable for their preschoolers. We connected them to the City Parks and Community Services Department. City staff identified a park that needed more trees and helped select the appropriate tree species. The […]
The Benicia Tree Foundation plants more trees on the freeway as a tribute to Earth Day. On two Saturdays in April, eleven volunteers planted 21 native trees on the Columbus Parkway eastbound offramp to I-780, opposite the entrance to the Benicia State Recreation Area. Earth Day is not the best time of year to plant […]
Arborists are seeing less Anthracnose. The picture above by Famartin (via CreativeCommons) is a sycamore tree with severe anthracnose. Anthracnose is a group of diseases that cause leaf death and a commonly found on Modesto ash and sycamores. As trees leaf out in March and April, anthracnose can spread if conditions are moist. Click here […]
Tree-planting efforts get a boost from drones. Foresters in Canada are using drones to help replant forests devasted by wildfire. Manual tree planting is done in groups and is hard work: individuals carry a long-handled spade and a 40-pound sack of infant trees and alternate spearing the soil and setting the baby tree in the […]
A cultivar under the trade name “Sky Tower” will grow to only 20′ tall. Ginkgo biloba (common name is Maidenhair tree) grows well in Benicia but it may be too big for some locations. A full grown Ginkgo is growing in front of the City Gymnasium on East L Street by the library. If you […]
Nine of these trees are found in California. The U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management celebrated Arbor Day this year by honoring the iconic trees found on the lands it manages. The tradition of Arbor Day began in Nebraska in 1872. Raising awareness of the importance of trees, people continue to use the […]
Volunteers planted three trees and pruned six. Principal Kimberly Lewis asked Benicia Tree Foundation to assist with planting three trees at Liberty High School to compensate for the planned removal of three Monterey pines from the school entrance on East J Street. The tree planting task was incorporated into a 2nd Saturday Tree Care Day […]
Honor National Arbor Day, learn to make a tree from pottery and support Benicia Tree Foundation. David and Amy Stellato, owners of Happy Life Pottery at 632 First Street in Benicia, want to celebrate National Arbor Day so they have scheduled a pottery class for a tree project on May 1 and all profits from […]