{"id":243,"date":"2012-11-29T09:57:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T14:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/?p=243"},"modified":"2012-11-29T09:57:31","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T14:57:31","slug":"reading-the-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/indianaplants\/2012\/11\/29\/reading-the-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading the Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Open-grown white oak tree on the Butler University campus<\/p><\/div>\n

This time of year is a good time for noting individual trees in the landscape.\u00a0 Their shape and growth form helps you know the history of a site.\u00a0 Trees that grow in forests tend to have few outward extending lateral branches.\u00a0 Open-grown trees, free from competition with other trees for light that occurs in forests, tend to have large lateral branches.\u00a0 Some natural habitats, like savannas, are characterized by scattered open-grown trees.\u00a0 In central Indiana, large open-grown trees are mostly found in yards and parks where they have been planted or in places where the woods around them was cleared a long time ago when they were small young trees.<\/p>\n

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Open-grown tree near Atherton Union that was part of the landscaping of Fairview Park<\/p><\/div>\n

There are some classic open-growth architecture trees on the Butler University campus.\u00a0 The campus was Fairview Park prior to Butler moving to the Butler-Tarkington neighborhood in the late 1920s.\u00a0 A ring of oak trees partially surrounding Atherton Student Center are amazing examples of the open- grown form.\u00a0 They must have been planted around the time Fairview Park was established at the turn of the 20th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n

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Evergreen trees in the landscaping at Butler University.<\/p><\/div>\n

Another striking feature of the landscape this time of year is the presence of evergreens.\u00a0 All conifers, cone-bearing trees, in Marion County have been planted, with the possible exception of Eastern red cedar, Juniperus Virginia<\/em>, based on early records of the native flora.\u00a0 All the winter color and wildlife cover they provide are the result of human efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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