This Old Tree Podcast

02/03/2025

Some quotes from December.

Discover 10 plants that benefit from being pruned or cut back during the winter months.

01/22/2025

Check out our new audio review of "The Nature of Oaks" by Douglas Tallamy. One of my favorite books about trees in recent years.

https://youtu.be/4GaqDElt5nU?si=2Hg-jY7n7hSnvoQI

Listen on YouTube or wherever you listen to podcasts. Also, visit our affiliate store, Tree Book Fan Page at
https://bookshop.org/shop/treebookfanpage

Welcome, listeners, to the ⁠Tree Book Fan Page⁠ (https://bookshop.org/shop/treebookfanpage) , an audio tree book shop and podcast. We are Doug Still, arboris...

01/11/2025

Announcing a one-stop shop to find the best books about trees! Tree Book Fan Page is a collaboration between me (Doug Still, host of This Old Tree podcast) and Georgia Silvera Seamans (host of Your Bird Story podcast). Visit our affiliate bookstore at Bookshop.org, where you can find (and order) our favorite and recommended books about trees. 10% goes to support our efforts, and 10% goes to support local bookstores.

https://bookshop.org/shop/treebookfanpage

You can also listen to our "Six-Minute Book Reviews" on YouTube! The first was just published, on Robin Wall Kimmerer's "The Serviceberry."

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFpTjMswwfMghWY7Ot-O9Nw

12/10/2024

Remembering summer. Black walnut.

12/07/2024

Are you a YouTube person? Well, you can now listen to This Old Tree via YouTube podcasts. Feel free to hit subscribe!

Welcome to This Old Tree, the show about heritage trees and the human stories behind them! Old trees are living, awe inspiring witnesses to the past that fire our imagination. What are their stories? Seasoned arborist and amateur historian Doug Still interviews local experts, historians, and regular...

11/30/2024

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11/25/2024

A few pics I took in June when visiting the walled garden at Charlton House, managed by the Charlton and Blackheath Amateur Horticultural Society. Stunning!

11/22/2024

Me and Kathy Aitken, the wonderful Charlton and Blackheath Amateur Horticultural Society volunteer who I happened to meet when roaming around the grounds of the beautiful estate. I interview her and Head Gardener Jason Sylvan in the latest episode.

11/21/2024

More photos of fellow mulbiculturalists! Here is Dr. Stella Butler in the beautiful garden at Charlton House - she gave a wonderful and thoughtful interview about Sir Adam Newton, the first owner of the estate. And here's a photo of volunteers hard at work weeding around the Charlton House Mulberry tree, shared by Kathy Aitken who was also interviewed. The gardens are what they are today due to the hard work of volunteers!

Charlton and Blackheath Amateur Horticultural Society

11/20/2024

I am with the venerable Peter Coles, author of the book "Mulberry" and brains behind the website "Morus Londinium." We are standing beneath the Charlton House Mulberry.

11/19/2024

Charlton House, through the leaves of the venerable, 415 yr old Charlton House mulberry tree in London.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-old-tree/id1643806576?i=1000677320140

11/18/2024

New episode! Did you know the British are mad about mulberries? A 415 yr-old black mulberry tree stands at Charlton House & Gardens, the oldest specimen in London and highly beloved. Its story involves King James I and a courtier named Sir Adam Newton, the tutor to the King's eldest son Henry. It also involves a government decree gone awry.

https://www.thisoldtree.show/episode-details/londons-charlton-house-mulberry-s2-ep-8 #/

This Old Tree is a radio show and podcast about heritage trees and the human stories behind them. Host Doug Still interviews local experts, historians, and regular folks to celebrate stories about famous, old trees.

10/31/2024

The lecture announcement to the community at IIT Gandhinagar. Come one come all!

10/27/2024

I'm super honored for the invitation to speak at IIT Gandhinagar about "What Trees Teach Us About Community" on Nov 4. I'm also visiting a famous and fascinating tree called Kabirvad with Professor Srinivas Reddy - future episode!

10/25/2024

Sugar maple, still crazy after all these years.

10/22/2024

Franklinia in fall color.

Photo taken by listener David Diamond at Arnold Arboretum.

10/20/2024

Quoted in Martha Stewart online 😉

Trees add beauty and height to any landscape, but there are certain types to avoid planting in your landscape. Here, an arborist shared several types of trees you should never plant in your yard.

10/18/2024

Listener Jason Zaros sent in these great photos of Franklinia flowers. He's growing two Franklin trees in his backyard! Thanks for sharing, Jason.