Marielle Anzelone, urban botanist and ecologist and the founder of NYC Wildflower Week, shares her final thoughts on this year of following the trees around us and she and Brian share some of the haikus listeners sent in.

→Watch this time-lapse slide show of Marielle's tree through the year.

 

Be sure and search #BLTrees in twitter to see all the photos and poems sent this year.

Why New York City?Don’t I belong in the woods?Oh well. A nice block.-Brian Lehrer

Feeding multitudeshundreds of insects and birdsa wild lifeline overlooked -Marielle Anzelone

I have birthed my leavesProviding shade and colorNow they flutter down#bltrees #haiku @wnyc

— ChristinaMox (@Unionfry) October 19, 2022

@BrianLehrer My window o’erlooks / The street that would not feel like / Home without the trees #BLTrees

— Mary L. C-Platt (@Emmyllu) October 19, 2022

#BLTrees From an Elm in East River Park: I survived SandyThen killed by New York Cityfor climate change. What?@ERPAction

— Pat Arnow (@PatArnow) October 19, 2022

the woodchipper snarls,shrinking suburban back yards --ashes to ashes.@nycbotanist @brianlehrer #bltrees

— Tina Kelley (@tinakelley) October 20, 2022

#BLTrees a dollar a daythat’s the gift from one sweet tree thanks Honey Locust Truth: Dogs destroy treesdon’t lead them to pee and poopon wee precious beds

— Wendy E Brawer (@wendybrawer) October 19, 2022

@BrianLehrer #BLTreesfrom sapling to elderan epoch of dropped acornsteasing life belowLauren ThompsonBrooklyn NY

— Lauren Thompson (@LTScribbler) October 20, 2022

Old Bradford Pear Tree Keeps dropping large side branchesPreserving main trunk#Treeku #BLTrees #AlsoCalledCalleryPear [we've been waiting for months for @NYCGreenThumb to send arborist to fix this situation at Morris-Jumel Community Garden in Washington Heights]

— Dr.EB (@LNBel) October 20, 2022

March twenty-twenty. / Branches bare, naked; sirens. / Leaves came back slow - mum. #bltrees pic.twitter.com/ZpOw9mErQ4

— MCO (@piippuuu) October 20, 2022

@BrianLehrer #BLTrees Branches reach upwardsYes, we trees grow in BrooklynLeafy canopy

— Lisa (@vegaslisa777) October 20, 2022

#BLTrees @BrianLehrer The oak's haiku:Each day we talk throughnetworks of myceliummy tree radio

— M Moser (@MicalMoser) October 20, 2022

#BLTrees Here are my October photos:1. Red against the lawn I embody grace as I Provide oxygen 2. Autumn majesty Readying my sap. Maple Syrup this winter pic.twitter.com/uFc2A0VJ47

— Bill Bartosik (@BillBartosik) October 20, 2022

#bltrees pic.twitter.com/D3eGtjBYTM

— David Hill (@DavidHillNYC) October 20, 2022

#BLTrees The small-leaf linden/Sweet smell of early summer/Throughout the city pic.twitter.com/KQxseqylM0

— Benjamin Mott (@hungrymungry) October 20, 2022

Trees name my loved onesBrother, spouse, son — broad branchesWhat child will you name?#BLtrees #haiku ⁦@BrianLehrer⁩ pic.twitter.com/46uGVDd8du

— Ethan Vesely-Flad (@ethanvf) October 21, 2022

My arms are tired Thank you for noticing meI’ll remember you.#BLTrees pic.twitter.com/eweZBPGs2i

— jerielle (@jerielle) October 21, 2022

Urban magnolia, / why couldn't you overwinter? / Your buds remain ghosts. #bltrees pic.twitter.com/UYpDK2Hj36

— Bill Westerman (@westerman222) October 21, 2022

#BLTrees #Tuliptree Here is my haiku:1. Your presence draws me2. to you, yellowing leaves bright3. Seeds fly then winter pic.twitter.com/om7tkrqJwf

— Georgia(Plume) 🌳 #BlackBotanistsWeek (@localecologist) October 20, 2022

#BLtrees For two hundred years / Sycamore tree on Corlear / Bronx, no other peer https://t.co/hmX2Lxz2Xz

— LeslieFoltz-Morrison (@Leslie_FM) October 20, 2022

A haiku for #bltrees in the voice of my maple. Runners running by-kids playing at the bus stop-so much life to see #brianlehrer #marielleanzelone pic.twitter.com/makrrx5jvO

— Alisa (@alisabulger) October 21, 2022

@BrianLehrer my final #BLTrees submission, and a haiku:boughs soaring aloftcreating shelter and shade how high will you grow? pic.twitter.com/cvLBHDy7Cc

— Alexander (@alexandertlane) October 21, 2022

@BrianLehrer my final #BLTrees submission, and a haiku:boughs soaring aloftcreating shelter and shade how high will you grow? pic.twitter.com/cvLBHDy7Cc

— Alexander (@alexandertlane) October 21, 2022

@BrianLehrer my final #BLTrees submission, and a haiku:boughs soaring aloftcreating shelter and shade how high will you grow? pic.twitter.com/cvLBHDy7Cc

— Alexander (@alexandertlane) October 21, 2022

Email:Greetings, old oak friendYour bark, like my textured skinWhispers, "We've lived. Yes!" Carol Bloom, age 79 Long dry summer droughtparched us, leaf, limb, root. Rains soakedOur deep palette blooms-Pamela Pezzati Embrace strong beautyThe amazing great oak treeStand, she says, like me-Maxine Forster Guenther 

Severed by lightning Your silhouette is alteredI love you yet more-Elizabeth Cohen Gnarled and Knowing, myBubby tree embraces me:“You are not alone.”-Sherry Gorelick 

Weeping birchWhite and black and greenNubby and noble-Karrie Robinson My Dogwood tree waitsTo blossom again next SpringIgnoring the Fall.-Joan Hall You bowed to Sandy,did not flood the flood with nests,song-filled sturdy pine.-Kate FalveyLong Beach, NY “My imperfect haiku”I find wide open tree branchesI connect with themI feel like dancing besides themPart of a wider world-Flora Hogman Are you dying, tree?Or bringing beauty to meWhen winter calls you?Thank you for all you do!-Bob ButscherRed Hook, NY Autumn haikuCallery pear leavesFallen to earth lie transformedEphemeral gemsVicki Bogard A set:I sit underneath Your swinging branches of shadeAnd I breathe your breath Riverside Park treesWere my favorite playgroundAnd my second home How to love a tree:Talk to her, and listen toThe wisdoms she grows New York City treesAre a secret getawayFrom the bustling life -Peace, Love, WNYC,Charlotte, a sustaining member Soft, feminine treeDogwood welcoming me homeI belong to you- Sara in Park Slope  On a morning walkShe stopped and stared at my leavesAs if newly born-Barbara Lewin

“My” tree: Grand elm, slaughtered in late June. July’s photo: air. -Janet in Great Falls, Montana

Amends Sisters seek amends so stand on roots near the trees their parents planted. -Rose Morba

Born when she was two. Thirty years later we grew. Together. Taller. We thrive.-Jeff Blye

Hillside broccoli.Trees are just vegetables.Enjoy the color.- Jeffrey

White Walnut, always rare.Found you, at last, on Long Island.Victim of the heat?- Andrew Greller, PhD, Professor of Biology Emeritus, Queens CollegeJoin us to save treesProtectors of Pine Oak WoodsThe Borough of Parks- Cliff Hagan, President of Protectors of Pine Oak Woods