Our greenhouse in Taizhou is filling up with freshly sown tree seeds. Soon the first seed leaves will emerge from the growing media and begin their first …
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Spring Begins
At our Taizhou Supercenter spring began today when we started sowing seeds. The crop is blue fruit tree, 蓝果树 in Chinese, Nyssa sinensis in Latin. This tree is …
Great trees start in the nursery with good roots
So much of what makes a tree long-lived, strong, and healthy starts in the days and weeks after germination. The root's emergence from the seed lays down the …
Carbon storage on the nursery
In just four years Trella's Metasequoia 水杉 at the nursery have stored an about 3.3 metric tons of carbon. Trella's first crop of were started from seed in 2019. …
Urban Forest Risk
Those who watch nature worry about the impact of climate change on trees. The details of that concern take shape in a new study authored by Manuel …
Tree Training
The most frequent problems with trees in the urban forest and home garden are broken limbs and canopy failure. Most of these problems are avoidable with proper …
Humbled by Nature
We are all dwarves in front of the giants of nature. Trella's oldest trees are no longer saplings; they are pole sized already. …
Where should China practice forestry in a warming world?
The velocity of global climate change is too fast for long-lived trees to adapt. Their populations can’t meet the need migration rate. In their study Zhang, et …
Summer Heat at the Nursery
It's brutally hot in Taizhou this summer. Weeks of extreme temperatures make doing anything beyond keeping the trees irrigated impossible. But our trees are …
Forest Edge Effect
Soils hold the third largest pool of carbon, after oceans and the geologic pools (Lal 2008). How we treat forests impacts the soil organic carbon (SOC) pool …
