The drought may be over, but many of our street trees look like they are one crispy leaf away from death. Landscape architect Dennis McGlade says fear not and gives an explanation of the situation in his column, Our Blooming City

The cherry blossoms on some streets and green, purple, and orange leaves still on others have got us thinking about that sometimes ordinary but almost always necessary aspect of the cityscape: the street tree. Landscape architect Dennis McGlade has put together some observations on their uses and abuses