My grandparents lived modestly. Most from their generation did. It wasn't a choice. It was necessity. My grandmother and grandfather were teens when the depression hit, so instead of enjoying their ...

Some people love them. Some people hate them. To some they represent the pleasant memories of childhood. To others they are nothing more than a trash tree to be destroyed at all costs. However you ...

Question: What can you tell me about the Chinaberry tree and is the fruit poisonous? Answer: My first encounter with this mysterious tree was in the early ’70s. I was fresh out of N.C. State full of ...

A lovely shade tree, I played beneath its canopy; rolled its berries in my palm. It stood seven yards beyond an old hand-dug well. I sucked nectar from delicate tubes in yellow-green tangles of ...

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My grandparents lived modestly. Most from their generation did. It wasn’t a choice. It was necessity. My grandmother and grandfather were teens when the depression hit, so instead of enjoying their ...

Cedar elm branches are turning brown and dying. Dear Neil: Why is my Chinaberry tree losing its bark? It also doesn’t look very healthy. I’m seeing tiny black insects on its trunk. I’m watering it ...

Josephine Burr writing in her landmark book "The History of Winter Haven" recorded an interesting remembrance from Jan. 1, 1901. Bob Peacock shared with Burr that on that date (when he was 12 years of ...

Question: Help me decide if I can keep my 12-year-old Chinaberry tree. I fear it has sooty canker disease because it has some branches dying. But it does not have peeling bark. It is a joy in the ...

Shakespeare would have made a fine plant taxonomist, as he understood the importance of fruits in identifying plants. The fruits of this tree are poisonous, they say, so don’t fool around with them.

The flowers of this close cousin of the neem are the most fragrant harbingers of good weather in the capital and its branches are the venue for many conferences of the birds Now that summer is upon us ...