urban
Every article and hero in Arborpedia that touches this subject.
№ 101GrowingContainer Growing: Productive Gardens Without Ground
Why pots dry out and starve, how to build a growing medium that lasts, and what genuinely produces on a balcony or hard yard.
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№ 185TreesGinkgo: The Living Fossil That Outlived the Dinosaurs
A tree with no living relatives, unchanged for 200 million years, saved from extinction by temple gardeners and now the toughest street tree there is.
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№ 190TreesGolden Rain Tree: Yellow Flowers and Papery Lanterns
A tough Asian street tree that flowers gold in high summer when little else does, then hangs itself with pink papery lanterns — beloved by bees, and quietly invasive where it seeds too well.
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№ 205TreesHackberry: The Tough Urban Tree Nobody Notices
A wind-firm, drought-hard elm relative with warty bark and sugary berries — a resilient street tree and a heavy feeder of winter birds.
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№ 275TreesMaackia: The Iron-Hard Legume for the Coldest Cities
A small, tough, exceptionally cold-hardy legume from Manchuria — shrugging off deep winters, poor soil, and city streets, fixing its own nitrogen, and flowering white in high summer when little else does.
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№ 359TreesPlane Trees: Peeling Bark and the City Tree That Survived
London plane — a hybrid that shrugs off pollution by shedding its bark, plus the American sycamore and the anthracnose that follows it.
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№ 496TreesTree Lilac: The Lilac That Grew Up Into a Tree
The one lilac that becomes a real tree — tough, hardy, and clean, foaming with fragrant creamy-white flowers in early summer after the shrubby lilacs are done, and shrugging off the hardest city streets.
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№ 508RestorationUrban Forestry: Trees in the Hardest Place to Grow One
Soil volume, heat islands, and species diversity — why street trees die young and what actually keeps them alive to maturity.
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№ 538TreesZelkova: The Elm That Survived the Blight
An elm relative with a perfect vase shape and resistance to Dutch elm disease — planted to replace the lost elms, and revered in Japan as the keyaki.
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