Virginia pine deserves a second look January-February 2024 by Steve Carroll, Contributing Columnist If you live in...
Seeing the Forest for the Trees
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SHADY AND SHEDDING
You could hardly find a better-named tree than shagbark hickory, though paper birch, striped maple and longleaf pine are in the running.
Black Cherry
Black cherries make handsome specimen trees. White flowers hang in four- to six-inch, upright to pendulous clusters. They are visited by native bees, honeybees, flies and beetles, and, after pollination, they form purple to blue-black fruits.
Ash: A Tree on the Brink
A mature, open-grown white ash is a magnificent tree. It grows straight and true, with bark ridges that interlace to form elongated diamonds.
Eastern Redbud
Few spring sights rival the impact of rounding a curve on a back-country road and coming upon a group of Eastern redbud trees in flower.
Loblolly Pine
Across much of the southeast U.S., including in the mid-Atlantic, pines are a prominent part of our forests and woodlands. Loblolly pine is planted more often than any of its cousins.