{"id":1827,"date":"2011-02-11T11:08:54","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T15:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2011-02-12T00:30:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T04:30:45","slug":"the-road-to-hell-is-lined-with-bartlett-pears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/the-road-to-hell-is-lined-with-bartlett-pears\/","title":{"rendered":"the Road to Hell is lined with Bradford Pears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/cf1110-a0586-michael-dirr.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Dirr silhouetted\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Michael_Dirr\">Michael Dirr<\/a> was in Charlottesville yesterday speaking at the 28th Annual Central Virginia Landscape Management Seminar, <br \/>presented by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piedmont-landscape.org\/\">Piedmont Landscape Association<\/a>. In the morning he gave a talk titled &#8220;In Praise of Noble Trees&#8221;.<br \/>\nMichael Dirr is the author of the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Manual-Woody-Landscape-Plants-Characteristics\/product-reviews\/0875637957\">Manual of Woody Landscape Plants<\/a><\/em> (6th Edition) The bible of the Nursery\/Landscape industry and gardeners, additionally he has published hundreds of other works and planted thousands of trees.<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/cf1108-m0233-quercus-phellos.jpg\"><br \/>\nThe reality for trees in this tree city is tough. A year ago we planted three oaks in a part of our neighborhood that sorely needs trees. One was mowed over by a lawn service guy who couldn&#8217;t be troubled to steer his lawn chariot around it. A second survived a house fire, but had to be moved when a track-hoe needed access to knock down the burnt house remains. The third still lives.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/cs1005-c2896-macrocarpa.jpg\"><br \/>\nThis is the time of year to be making a list of bare root seedlings to plant early in the spring. The Virginia Department of Forestry has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dof.virginia.gov\/mgt\/how-to-plant.htm\">how to plant<\/a> guidelines on their website. The Department of Forestry sells seedlings.<br \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musserforests.com\/browse.asp?m=1&#038;p=o\">Musser Forests<\/a> is my favorite bare root tree source.<br \/>\nKept away from cretinous lawnmower operators and deer, bare root seedlings will do well.<br \/>\nThis Bur oak is four feet tall in less than a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Dirr was in Charlottesville yesterday speaking at the 28th Annual Central Virginia Landscape Management Seminar, presented by the Piedmont Landscape Association. In the morning he gave a talk titled &#8220;In Praise of Noble Trees&#8221;. Michael Dirr is the author of the Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (6th Edition) The bible of the Nursery\/Landscape industry &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/the-road-to-hell-is-lined-with-bartlett-pears\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;the Road to Hell is lined with Bradford Pears&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-damage","category-flora"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}