I went to my favorite nursery to buy plants on probably the worst possible day this spring – the Friday night before Mother’s Day. Nevertheless, I found everything I wanted surprisingly quickly and made my way to the checkout. The place is a little old-school and doesn’t have a scanner or a screen displaying [Continue]
Most basic Master Gardener training classes include a section on botany. Here, we learn words to describe the parts of flowers like petal, pistil and stamen; tree parts including crown, branch union, spur and leader; leaf shapes like pinnate, palmate, elliptical and ovate; and other terms like bulb, corm, tuber and rhizome. I [Continue]
Wild grapes are the most plentiful free fruit in North America. Their vines grow prolifically in most of the United States except for the southwest and extreme southeast. The strange thing is that they are mostly unnoticed until they become a problem – for example when they are about to strangle and pull down [Continue]