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We were joined on our walk the woods by Mik, a Chesapeake Master Gardener named Ed Bradley, and Jean-Marie Eagler, president of the Arboretum. Once Mik, a tall man with a Hungarian accent, decided we were okay, he started in on the jokes.
“You can always tell a dogwood by its bark,” he said. But my [...]

A Walk through the Woods
We had a miscommunication with our two guides through the Chesapeake Arboretum, so we ended up arriving an hour later than they did.
“It’s okay,” said Miklos Lestyan, the City Arborist/Urban Forester, with a broad smile. “We were just out in the woods. We’re happy there.”
Mik handed me a card that had [...]

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