torontotrees https://treeto.ca/ Essays and visualizations built on Toronto's open street-tree data. en-CA Sun, 19 Apr 2026 06:21:32 +0000 The narrow-street advantage — why Toronto's old grid carries 4× the trees of its new condos https://treeto.ca/blog/narrow-street-advantage/ https://treeto.ca/blog/narrow-street-advantage/ Fri, 01 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The densest 200m stretch of street trees in Toronto has forty. The sparsest has three. The difference isn The ravines — the other half of Toronto's canopy https://treeto.ca/blog/the-ravines/ https://treeto.ca/blog/the-ravines/ Fri, 01 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000 689,013 city-owned street trees are on a map. An estimated 5 to 8 million more live in Toronto A decade of standing still — how Toronto's canopy survived the ash catastrophe https://treeto.ca/blog/decade-of-standing-still/ https://treeto.ca/blog/decade-of-standing-still/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Between 2008 and 2018, Toronto lost an estimated 80,000 mature ash trees to emerald ash borer. Over the same decade, citywide canopy cover went from 25.84% to 25.89%. Here Toronto's street trees are worth $20 million a year https://treeto.ca/blog/value-of-the-canopy/ https://treeto.ca/blog/value-of-the-canopy/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Applying published ecosystem-service equations to each of 686,000 Toronto street trees — totalling $20M/year in carbon, stormwater, air quality, and cooling benefits. And an 80× gap between neighbourhoods. The west-end cherry belt — where to see cherry blossoms in Toronto https://treeto.ca/blog/cherry-blossoms/ https://treeto.ca/blog/cherry-blossoms/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 High Park is famous for cherry blossoms. But the data says Oakwood Village has more — and nine times as many cherries line the west-end blocks around St Clair. Toronto's veteran street trees — a hall of fame https://treeto.ca/blog/veteran-trees/ https://treeto.ca/blog/veteran-trees/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The single largest specimen of each of Toronto The honey locust — Toronto's civic workhorse https://treeto.ca/blog/honey-locust/ https://treeto.ca/blog/honey-locust/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Gleditsia triacanthos is Toronto Toronto's heat islands aren't where you'd expect https://treeto.ca/blog/heat-islands/ https://treeto.ca/blog/heat-islands/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 An impervious-minus-canopy heat proxy maps the city What the trees know https://treeto.ca/blog/what-the-trees-know/ https://treeto.ca/blog/what-the-trees-know/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Between the data and the product is the reason. A reflection on Toronto Toronto's rarest street trees — a pilgrimage guide https://treeto.ca/blog/rare-trees/ https://treeto.ca/blog/rare-trees/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Seven tree species have exactly one specimen in all of Toronto The ginkgo — Toronto's 17,474 living fossils https://treeto.ca/blog/ginkgo/ https://treeto.ca/blog/ginkgo/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Ginkgo biloba is the sole survivor of an entire plant division that predates dinosaurs. Toronto is quietly planting tens of thousands of them, almost all under 15 years old. Every street tree in Toronto, as a dot https://treeto.ca/blog/every-tree/ https://treeto.ca/blog/every-tree/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A pointillist portrait of Toronto: 689,013 city-owned street trees, coloured by genus. Plus a map showing just the 69,563 Norway maples — and why that matters. A tale of two Victorians — Cabbagetown vs. Trinity-Bellwoods https://treeto.ca/blog/two-victorians/ https://treeto.ca/blog/two-victorians/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Two old downtown Toronto neighbourhoods, same era, same rowhouse DNA, same gentrification arc. One has 45% canopy. The other has 20%. Here The black locust — Toronto's 2,943 Robinia pseudoacacia https://treeto.ca/blog/black-locust/ https://treeto.ca/blog/black-locust/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Black locust is one of Toronto Beyond the curb — Toronto's actual canopy https://treeto.ca/blog/beyond-the-curb/ https://treeto.ca/blog/beyond-the-curb/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Toronto Toronto's canopy is unequally shared — torontotrees https://treeto.ca/blog/canopy-equity/ https://treeto.ca/blog/canopy-equity/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Four findings from an afternoon with Toronto