A tree for all seasons October 2024 by Steve Carroll,...
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Spicing Up the Season
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Black Walnut: Massive and Messy
May 2024
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
March 2024
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
December 2023
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
September 2023
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
July 2023
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.