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Fantastic Tall Trees

Moreton Bay Fig by Caro Webster

Gardening friends are the best friends. Today’s post is the first of a planned series brought to you through my friendship with Caro Webster.

“When I sit under a tall, majestic tree something amazing happens. I feel embraced, calmed, part of something larger, transported.” Alison Kerr, 2010

Tall trees: awe-inspiring; humbling; [...]

Native Evergreen Trees for Kansas and Beyond

Which evergreen trees are native to Kansas and Missouri? Read about which trees you can grow and factors to [...]

We Need Trees

Stop and think about it for a minute. Trees are amazing, incredible, highly useful, and we need them.

Trees in our nature gardens, woodlands, and our forests produce oxygen, provide shade and shelter, absorb CO2, nurture insects to feed the birds we enjoy, provide seeds, nuts and fruits for us and other animals, grow into the [...]

The Grackles’ Loss is My Gain

Hummingbird by Hart Curt

Most years, in spring, grackles come along and nest in a group of eastern red cedars on the fence-line of my property. I feel mean saying this, but over the Thanksgiving break I’ll be outside helping to fell those eastern red cedar trees. You might well be wondering why.

Eastern Red Cedars

Eastern [...]

Chasing the Beauty of Red Maples in Kansas

Red Maple Goodness by Clearly Ambiguous

Fall in Kansas wouldn’t be fall without the red, yellow, and orange of maple leaves dancing in the sunshine, swirling, gusting, and drifting to set the ground on fire. Maples in Eastern Kansas include red maple Acer rubrum, silver maple Acer saccharinum, and sugar maple Acer saccharum. Sugar maple [...]