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Tree Care History and How-to with Melissa Finley - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Dec. 22, 2025

Tree Care History and How-to with Melissa Finley - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Dec. 22, 2025

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 The earliest references to people cultivating trees date back to 6000 B.C., and there are records of tree-care tactics in the Bible, too, and from ancient Egypt. These person-to-tree interventions were the start of the science and art of arboriculture, and our best practices of pruning and other how-to have evolved in each successive era to the methods we know today. We’re going to take a little look backward, and also at some current recommendations, with today’s guest, Melissa Finley, the New York Botanical Garden’s Thain Curator of Woody Plants, and curator of NYBG’s Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, too. Woody... Read More ›
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