Artist Patrick Dougherty puts the finishing touches on his massive stickwork structure at Mounts Botanical Garden. The exhibit, which has five rooms, was built from 30,000 pounds of willow saplings and the help of more than 100 volunteers. Tim Stepie
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Sixteen members of Cub Scout Pack 241 from Imagine-Chancellor, a Florida charter school in Boynton Beach, helped city staff in the planting of native, salt-tolerant sea grape trees at Oceanfront Park near the newly completed playground. The other tre
Residents tied black ribbons on about 50 trees along Swinton Avenue to protest proposed changes to the street.
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Related Story: Canopy policy in the works for Tree City
By Jane Smith
The fear that Swinton Avenue could los
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach city commissioners want to live up to their Arbor Day Foundation designation as a Tree City.
At a Jan. 22 workshop, commissioners approved a tree canopy policy that will be included in its comprehensive plan update. The com
By Deborah S. Hartz-Seeley
When you think of a tree, chances are you envision a trunk with some foliage at the top that might shade your yard, become a home to birds and other wildlife, or provide your family with such sweet treats as mangoes or sta
By Steve Plunkett
The town may reroute its main water line from alongside State Road A1A to Gulfstream Road or Polo Drive to make sure its treasured Australian pines do not run afoul of state restrictions.
The pipe will be enlarged to 12 inches in di
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach is on its way to living up to its brand of being a safe haven for trees.
In early August, the Delray Beach City Commission unanimously approved an updated tree ordinance making preservation the No. 1 priority.
“If
By Mary Thurwachter
As developers prepare to build Water Tower Commons, a 72-acre retail and residential project on the site of the former A.G. Holley tuberculosis hospital east of Interstate 95 on Lantana Road, hundreds of trees need to be moved
Susan Oyer stands on Ocean Avenue where her father had a real estate/insurance office.
The plaque honors Charles Pierce, the Barefoot Mailman.
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By Lucy Lazarony
Boca Raton Community Middle School teacher Susan Oyer t
By Jane Smith
The city strengthened the future of its tree canopy in December by toughening an ordinance protecting shade trees.
The first change was renaming the ordinance, last revised in 2008 and formerly called the Tree Ordinance. It is
By Dan Moffett
Manalapan town commissioners are moving forward with changes that will place new regulations on swales in Point Manalapan neighborhoods.
Town Attorney Keith Davis is drafting a new ordinance that will restrict the types of trees
By Rich Pollack
It is a question for the ages, but with a bit of a twist in Highland Beach.
If a tree falls on the public right of way and no one is around to see it happen, does the adjacent property owner still have to replace it?
That’s
Australian pines along A1A are part of Gulf Stream’s signature look. Jerry Lower/The Coastal Star
By Tim O’Meilia
The hammock of dense growth will remain along A1A in front of the old Spence property in Gulf Stream — noxious non-native plants incl
By Tim O’Meilia
Two more homes to be sliced from the old Spence estate — a Bermuda home with black shutters and a Colonial West Indies house with a charcoal tile roof — were approved unanimously by the Gulf Stream Town Commission Nov. 9, not that
By Tim Norris
Among the dozens of the dead and dying and the iffy west of the bridge along George Bush Boulevard in Delray Beach, one Calophyllum inophyllum is emphatically alive.
Even the experts can’t say why. Within a single variety, trees s
