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Tweet As local municipalities begin to prepare for the likely arrival of the Emerald Ash Borer in northeast Johnson County, many homeowners may be wondering the best way to prepare for the pest themselves. Local landscape architect Robert Whitman of Gould Evans has prepared a series of maps to help residents visualize where the Emerald [...]
Tweet Fairway is ready to do battle with that nasty little critter that promises to cause severe homeowner angst in coming years. The city is ready to begin treating healthy ash trees in the public right-of-way to stop the emerald ash borer. Last year, Fairway did an inventory that showed 225 ash trees on city [...]
Tweet Prairie Village isn’t the only northeast Johnson County to earn a “Tree City USA” designation from the Arbor Day Foundation. Roeland Park made the list again this year as well, the 20th time Roeland Park has earned the accolade. Roeland Park and Prairie Village earned the designation by meeting the Arbor Day Foundation’s four [...]
Tweet Trees trees trees! We’re tree-crazy around here this week, ya’ll! Which is why we were pumped to receive official word that Prairie Village has been named a Tree City USA by the Arbor Day Foundation for the 16th time! To earn the designation, cities have to meet the following requirements: a tree board or [...]
Tweet Speaking of the drought… Persistent dry conditions wreaked havoc on hundreds of local trees last summer, and the big February snowstorm managed to severely damage several hundred more. To help mitigate the effects of these events on the local tree stock, Prairie Village’s Colonial Church is putting together a community replanting event: Both drought [...]
Tweet See if you can remember way back to October 1996, when a freak fall storm piled snow on still-leafed trees throughout northeast Johnson County, downing hundreds of limbs. Remember that mountain of chunked wood that piled up in Porter Park? Well sir, we may have a similar site to behold in the coming weeks. [...]
Tweet As in so many areas of life, for Mother Nature, quality takes time. That maxim serves to explain in part why some trees crumbled under the weight of Tuesday’s snowstorm while others held strong. K-State Extension horticulturist Dennis Patton said hardwooded trees — like the giant pin oaks common throughout northeast Johnson County — have [...]
Tweet If you’ve driven around the area lately, you’ve no doubt noticed preponderance of evergreen trees that are now everbrown. Last summer’s excruciating drought took a heavy tool on all trees, but particularly the local evergreen stock. But a program offered through K-State Research and Extension in Olathe could help local landowners replace some of [...]
Tweet It’s about time to start thinking about not having to think about Christmas anymore, right? Well, if getting rid of that Christmas tree would help you put the holidays behind you, you’ve got a couple of options. Prairie Village and Mission Hills residents can simply set their Christmas trees on the curb to be [...]
Tweet A local arbor advocacy organization is providing a digital option to help keep Kansas City’s urban forests vital — and Prairie Village, Mission and Leawood are among the first sites to be targeted by its campaigns. The Heartland Tree Alliance last month launched a website to accept donations that will be used to plant [...]
Tweet It’s only a matter of time, say tree experts, before the feared Emerald Ash Borer finds its way into the Prairie Village city limits and begins devastating the city’s Ash tree population. But precisely what moves the city should take — if any — to protect its ample Ash stock is a issue that [...]
Tweet Between the stress of the drought on local trees and the imminent appearance of the emerald ash borer that threatens to decimate the area’s ash trees, you might be wondering what to plant next. The Prairie Village Tree Board is bringing an expert in to talk about “Great Trees for the Kansas City Region” [...]
Tweet Death and destruction is at our doorstep in the form of a pest that has the capacity to change the face of entire neighborhoods. Its name is the emerald ash borer. And it already may be in Prairie Village. The half-inch long insect has killed tens of millions of ash trees across the Midwest. [...]
Tweet This long, hot summer appears to be staging a final assault on thermometers — and is likely to push even more of the area’s stressed-out trees over the edge in the process. Over the past three weeks, dozens of local evergreen trees have turned brown and started shedding needles. And K-State Extension horticulturist Dennis [...]
Tweet For an area that prides itself on its great stock of mature trees, news that an invasive tree pest has been sighted nearby is certainly cause for concern. Unfortunately, that appears to be the case in northeast Johnson County, as the city of Fairway sent a notice to residents yesterday alerting them to a [...]
Tweet The stress from this summer’s prolonged drought is manifesting itself in a dangerous — and expensive —phenomenon: giant falling tree limbs. At least two Prairie Village trees this weekend shed major limbs, producing heart-stopping spectacles, though causing no injuries. A mature oak in the 2100 block of Cambridge Street dropped a huge limb Friday night [...]
Tweet Highlands Elementary second graders got a little extra fresh air this morning in recognition of Arbor Day. The students gathered at Peterson Park in Fairway where they took an Arbor Day-themed civics quiz administered by Mayor Jerry Wiley (Sample question: “Who is the mayor of Fairway?” Silence. One hand shoots up: “You are.” Good [...]
Tweet Mission Hills officials say the city is close to reaching an agreement with the residents whose extensive landscaping project caused more than $35,000 worth of damage to city park property last year. Assistant city administrator Jennifer Lee said the city and the Brandmeyer family were in the process of coming to terms on a [...]
Tweet This time of year — with the memory of barren February limbs still fresh in our minds — it’s easy to appreciate the mature stock of trees we have in northeast Johnson County. And the towering oaks and sycamores of Prairie Village aren’t just easy on the eyes. They’ve also earned the city Tree City USA [...]
Tweet If you spent any time in the yard raking up leaves this weekend, you may have noticed that the bagging process was a little lighter than usual. So where are all the acorns? Indeed, we’ve had a few people write in inquiring about the lack of acorns falling from the oak trees this season. [...]
Tweet The city of Fairway is again offering citizens the option of curbside leaf removal. The leaf removal program, which the city started in 2009, lets homeowners rake their leaves to the edge of their yards, where crews from Benjamin Lawn & Landscape service remove them with large vacuum trucks. The cost is $31 for the [...]
Tweet I am red with envy, if that’s possible, about PV resident Doug Hudson’s mad photography skills. Doug sent the beautiful shot above along yesterday after our call for fall foliage pictures, and when we asked him where it was shot (around 78th and Nall Avenue, he thinks) he let us know he’s been keeping [...]
Tweet Big thanks to reader Karen Chapman for sending along a few more pics of great fall color throughout the area. If you’ve got some especially beautiful fall foliage in your neighborhood, snap a shot and send it our way.
Tweet We spent an hour puttering around town Sunday snapping photos of fall foliage, and while it looks like we’re still a week or so away from peak colors, there are plenty of sights to be seen. (Please send us shots of great fall tree color in your neighborhood – we’ll run them on the [...]
Tweet Crews this week will begin trimming trees on the east side of Prairie Village, part of the city’s tree maintenance program. The crews will only trim those trees in the city’s right-of-way, and cannot trim trees on private property. They will: Remove dead wood on branches 2 inches in diameter or larger Remove broken [...]
