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An exchange of emails in April this year discussed the origin of the champion specimen of Quercus look in the US.
5._bartlett_look.jpg
Posted Wed, 2019-06-12 17:37 in Roderick Cameron's blog
In November 2018 I had a long layover in Bogotá and had enough time for a quick visit to Parque Natural Chicaque, about an hour’s drive from the airport.
02-p1100537.jpg
Posted Thu, 2019-04-04 13:18 in Roderick Cameron's blog
The visit to Apple Park and the oak plantation there, during the first Post-Conference Tour, brought to mind another place I had written about previously in this blog.
Posted Sun, 2018-12-16 17:51 in Roderick Cameron's blog
On a recent trip to Bogotá, Colombia I was able to collect acorns from several Quercus humboldtii growing as street trees.
Posted Thu, 2018-10-11 21:59 in Roderick Cameron's blog
This year I harvested acorns in Grigadale Arboretum rather late in the season (April), at a stage when most species had dropped them. As trees are planted quite close together, in some cases I...
Posted Fri, 2018-06-15 16:07 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Last April I briefly visited Canberra, the capital of Australia. I was able to take a day off to look at trees and spent most of it admiring the impressive collections of Australian native flora...
Posted Tue, 2018-06-12 14:40 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Over the first hundred days of 2018 I have read Dante’s Divine Comedy, as part of a mass-reading organized on Twitter by Pablo Maurette, an Argentine Literature Professor and author at the...
Posted Thu, 2018-04-19 18:46 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Allan Taylor sent me a link to an article describing efforts to bring back the oaks to Silicon Valley.
Posted Thu, 2018-04-19 12:45 in Roderick Cameron's blog
I spent a weekend in Bogotá in October 2017 and made it my mission to find Quercus humboldtii. I had had the species in my sights for a long time: it is the only oak native to South America, and...
Quercus humboldtii in Bogotá
Posted Sun, 2017-12-10 19:29 in Roderick Cameron's blog
In August 2017, during a visit to Vancouver, British Columbia, I was able to visit an experimental plantation of Garry oak (Quercus garryana) at the University of British Columbia. 
Posted Fri, 2017-10-13 11:53 in Roderick Cameron's blog
On the advice of a novelist friend of mine, I have been reading Cervantes' Don Quijote. It was recommended for its literary merit ("Flaubert knew the novel by heart before he learnt to read," my...
Posted Fri, 2017-04-07 23:38 in Roderick Cameron's blog
In October 2016 I was in New York on business and one morning before work I took the subway down to the Financial District to visit the 911 Memorial.
Posted Mon, 2016-12-19 21:18 in Roderick Cameron's blog

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An exchange of emails in April this year discussed the origin of the champion specimen of Quercus look in the US.
5._bartlett_look.jpg
Posted Wed, 2019-06-12 17:37 in Roderick Cameron's blog
In November 2018 I had a long layover in Bogotá and had enough time for a quick visit to Parque Natural Chicaque, about an hour’s drive from the airport.
02-p1100537.jpg
Posted Thu, 2019-04-04 13:18 in Roderick Cameron's blog
The visit to Apple Park and the oak plantation there, during the first Post-Conference Tour, brought to mind another place I had written about previously in this blog.
Posted Sun, 2018-12-16 17:51 in Roderick Cameron's blog
On a recent trip to Bogotá, Colombia I was able to collect acorns from several Quercus humboldtii growing as street trees.
Posted Thu, 2018-10-11 21:59 in Roderick Cameron's blog
This year I harvested acorns in Grigadale Arboretum rather late in the season (April), at a stage when most species had dropped them. As trees are planted quite close together, in some cases I...
Posted Fri, 2018-06-15 16:07 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Last April I briefly visited Canberra, the capital of Australia. I was able to take a day off to look at trees and spent most of it admiring the impressive collections of Australian native flora...
Posted Tue, 2018-06-12 14:40 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Over the first hundred days of 2018 I have read Dante’s Divine Comedy, as part of a mass-reading organized on Twitter by Pablo Maurette, an Argentine Literature Professor and author at the...
Posted Thu, 2018-04-19 18:46 in Roderick Cameron's blog
Allan Taylor sent me a link to an article describing efforts to bring back the oaks to Silicon Valley.
Posted Thu, 2018-04-19 12:45 in Roderick Cameron's blog
I spent a weekend in Bogotá in October 2017 and made it my mission to find Quercus humboldtii. I had had the species in my sights for a long time: it is the only oak native to South America, and...
Quercus humboldtii in Bogotá
Posted Sun, 2017-12-10 19:29 in Roderick Cameron's blog
In August 2017, during a visit to Vancouver, British Columbia, I was able to visit an experimental plantation of Garry oak (Quercus garryana) at the University of British Columbia. 
Posted Fri, 2017-10-13 11:53 in Roderick Cameron's blog
On the advice of a novelist friend of mine, I have been reading Cervantes' Don Quijote. It was recommended for its literary merit ("Flaubert knew the novel by heart before he learnt to read," my...
Posted Fri, 2017-04-07 23:38 in Roderick Cameron's blog
In October 2016 I was in New York on business and one morning before work I took the subway down to the Financial District to visit the 911 Memorial.
Posted Mon, 2016-12-19 21:18 in Roderick Cameron's blog

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