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Spicing Up the Season

Spicing Up the Season

Spicebush yields early flowers, red berries and yellow fall foliage September 2024 [gallery order="ASC" columns="2" main_size="full" thumb_size="medium" style="random" itemtag="dl" icontag="dt" captiontag="dd" link="post" size="large" id="11775"...

Black Walnut: Massive and Messy

Black Walnut: Massive and Messy

The good, the bad and the nutty June 2024 by Steve Carroll, Contributing Columnist A landowner with a mature, open-grown black walnut is fortunate indeed, able to appreciate this tree’s massive presence; thick,...

Flowering Dogwood

Flowering Dogwood

Virginia’s state flower and tree April 2024 by Steve Carroll, Contributing Columnist Flowering dogwood is a small tree that makes a dramatic and much-admired statement in early spring. The Virginia Native Plant Society named it their 2018 Flower of the Year, and in...

Seeing the Forest for the Trees

Virginia pine deserves a second look January-February 2024 by Steve Carroll, Contributing Columnist If you live in the mid-Atlantic, you’ve surely seen Virginia pine, though you may have given it just a passing...

Bald Cypress

Bald Cypress

Bald cypress is a truly unusual tree. It’s a conifer — therefore related to pines and spruces — but it drops all its leaves each fall.

The Sourwood Tree

The Sourwood Tree

Sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum), also called sorrel tree and lily-of-the-valley tree, shows off dramatic sprays of fragrant, quarter-inch white flowers in early to mid-summer.