What am I? Lots of clues here…
Answer and more photos Monday!
Friday’s plant puzzler
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Linda Chalker-Scott
Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott has a Ph.D. in Horticulture from Oregon State University and is an ISA certified arborist and an ASCA consulting arborist. She is WSU’s Extension Urban Horticulturist and a Professor in the Department of Horticulture, and holds two affiliate associate professor positions at University of Washington. She conducts research in applied plant and soil sciences, publishing the results in scientific articles and university Extension fact sheets. Linda also is the award-winning author of five books: the horticultural myth-busting The Informed Gardener (2008) and The Informed Gardener Blooms Again (2010) from the University of Washington Press and Sustainable Landscapes and Gardens: Good Science – Practical Application (2009) from GFG Publishing, Inc., and How Plants Work: The Science Behind the Amazing Things Plants Do from Timber Press (2015). Her latest effort is an update of Art Kruckeberg’s Gardening with Native Plants of the Pacific Northwest from UW Press (2019). In 2018 Linda was featured in a video series – The Science of Gardening – produced by The Great Courses. She also is one of the Garden Professors – a group of academic colleagues who educate and entertain through their blog and Facebook pages. Linda’s contribution to gardeners was recognized in 2017 by the Association for Garden Communicators as the first recipient of their Cynthia Westcott Scientific Writing Award. "The Garden Professors" Facebook page - www.facebook.com/TheGardenProfessors "The Garden Professors" Facebook group - www.facebook.com/groups/GardenProfessors Books: http://www.sustainablelandscapesandgardens.com View all posts by Linda Chalker-Scott
An elephant trunk! Roots are resilient, but we are very persistent with our concrete.
It looks like a huge tree root to me
A surface tree root that ran into a curb and made an abrupt right turn. I do this all the time in my car.
Treebeard’s elbow.
Looks like the fallen fruit flowers of a mulberry with its root taking a right-hand turn at terrafirma (Concretious blandmulsia) and a bottle cap looking on.
liquidambar styraciflua root
Failure to plan ahead or the right plant in the wrong place.
wow…i’m stumped! No pun intended lol
That is one beautiful tree pit with a Norway maple growing in it.