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Chinese Tallows.

We may have a hundred Chinese Tallow trees. This invasive species grows fast, and has bright green leaves twisting like pinwheels in the wind. In autumn, they create some of the most flashy fall colors in the South. Plant stores used to sell them as fast-growing shade trees. But fifty years later, birds have spreadContinue reading “Chinese Tallows.”

Trees.

Marshall and I drove a golf cart around Legendary Oaks Golf Course on Saturday. We had not played there in a while and were surprised how many oak trees had either collapsed sideways into the earth, or bore the scars of having had half their limbs cut away with a chain saw. At one pointContinue reading “Trees.”