When visiting Honey Horn Plantation last week, I noticed a pretty flowering tree. It was labeled Loblolly Bay Gordonia lasianthus. The name stuck with me as I only associated the name ‘Loblolly’ with pine trees. It’s a native tree. One, I decided, that would be great to find in the wild. As I entered my […]
Category Archives: Trees
Summer Solstice
We had the opportunity to spend a few hours of the summer solstice under a magnificent Live Oak tree (Quercus virginiana) on the Fiddler Crab Cove Boardwalk at the Coastal Discovery Museum’s Honey Horn Plantation. I couldn’t resist trying to capture the massive trunk and lower limbs. You can just picture children draped on the […]
Beauty-berry
One of the great joys of noticing low country vegetation is Beauty-berry Callicarpa americana L. This time of year it may be overlooked as there is so much ‘green’ everywhere. It loves to grow in partial to full shade in maritime forests, fencerows, woodland borders, pine-mixed hardwood and oak-hickory forests, and sandy or rocky woodlands. […]
Meet Fetterbush!
Back in April, when I was in the midst of Master Naturalist study, I discovered a new plant – well, new to me 🙂 The dogs and I were on an afternoon walk around our neighborhood. Our female, Grizzie, has a favorite 15′ wide swatch of grass, at an end of a cul-de-dac, just before […]
Celebrate Earth Day!
How happy I am that Earth Day marks my very first blog post!  I remember taking part in the first Earth Day ever (that’s dating me).  My farming neighborhood (in Dudley, MA) got together and cleaned up a party parking spot on the less traveled Farley Road.  Lots of beer cans/bottles and just plain old trash. […]
