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The beauty of rattlesnake master flowers
Rattlesnake master's slender flower stalks, topped with inch-wide inflorescences, makes a great contrast to other flowers in an arrangement and can b…
3 years, 7 months ago
Rattlesnake master has a pollenator useful to gardeners
Another of its pollinators are the predatory wasps who capture insects to line soil cavities or stems as paralyzed, but living , food for their young…
3 years, 7 months ago
One plant, many pollinators
Many people get most excited about butterflies on their pollinator plants, but Eryngium yuccafolium, flowering late summer, perhaps attracts a larger…
3 years, 7 months ago
"My new favorite plant..."
By collecting the plant leaves' tough long fibrous veins, indigenous people could weave them to make moccasins and baskets, a better use than relying…
3 years, 7 months ago
Rattlesnake master: Another odd common name
This common name comes from the belief that the roots could cure rattlesnake bites - don’t try it!
3 years, 7 months ago
Osage orange wood burns intensely
The dried wood of osage orange is prized for firewood as it has the highest BTU on charts that rank that property among native trees.
3 years, 7 months ago
The spread of osage orange
The spread of Maclura pomifera, aka osage orange or bodark tree, from the relatively small Red River drainage system to 48 states was due not just it…
3 years, 8 months ago
"Bodark" trees
Common names can be fascinating and puzzling.
3 years, 8 months ago
Tree inspecton
An inspection by a certified arborist can help prevent losing your shade trees and perhaps having one fall on your house,
3 years, 8 months ago
How trees react to pruning can cause them to be less stable in the wind
Trees react to tsevere internal pruning by adding lots of small leaf covered shoots at the ends of branches. New research reveals this actually makes…
3 years, 8 months ago