What Everyone Ought to Know About the Eastern Black Walnut

What Everyone Ought to Know About the Eastern Black Walnut

The English walnut’s wild cousin Black walnut is a powerful plant. It is not well suited for domestic landscapes because of the heavy nuts that fall in Autumn; and because it repels other plants with a compound called juglone found in its roots, bark, leaves, and nut hulls. But there are lots of great reasons…

In Defense of Goldenrod

In Defense of Goldenrod

Mistaken Identity What a sad case. Poor goldenrod is merely trying to make the world a more beautiful place, and feed a few lucky butterflies and bees. Suddenly a case of mistaken identity has this good plant on the defensive…and seemingly losing ground! It all started when someone got the sniffles. It wasn’t a cold,…