Winter Survival Strategies
…it may not be obvious that when you’re walking through the park on the cold hard soil, beneath your feet lie the bulbs, tubers, corms and rhizomes of lots of the plants that will come up in the springtime.
Black Heartwood and Persimmons
If you haven’t tried a persimmon, by the way, you are in for quite a treat. When soft and ripe they have a texture like jelly-candy…
A Holiday Plant Story
You may also have learned, as I did, about trees being grouped as either coniferous or deciduous. If you did learn this dichotomy, please take a moment now to unlearn it, because it is both misleading and self-contradictory