Apr 26, 2011
Ginkgo Tree Spraying Started Last Night
The arrival of warmer spring weather means one thing: it’s time to spray for the jizz berries. (Or poop berries, or vomit berries, whatever you prefer.) That’s right, the ginkgos are once again threatening to rise up and fill our nasal passages with nothing but disgusting scents all summer and fall.
Apr 08, 2010
Ginkgo Season Starts Early, City Starts Spraying
Photo by julia.m This week’s spring heat wave is causing more problems than just power outages and heavy 911 call volumes. The unseasonably warm weather has also jump started the production of the dread female ginkgo fruit — better known to us as jizz berries (or vomit berries or poop berries, depending on your nasal sensibilities). Concerned about having another particularly stinky ginkgo year, the District Department of Transportation’s Urban Forestry Administration started spraying…