Making Maple Syrup: Field Trip to the Sugar Bush by The Garden Buzz on Mar 19, 2010 in Edible Landscapes Food and Drink Garden and Nature Go Local Trees batch fungi lichens maples moss pancakes sap srup tap trilliums woodland woods The sap's running! The call came yesterday. My husband's former boss, the consummate woodsman, canoeist, hunter and sportsman, now retired, would be boiling syrup the next day. Sap runs in the spring when the days go above freezing while the night te...
Buckthorn by Orange Is My Favorite Color on Mar 14, 2010 in trees chickens What a week it has been. Last Sunday I had over six inches of snow all over the lawn. Today I have a few patches of snow with lots of bare ground in between. This morning my vegetable garden was covered with a layer of snow. This afternoon all trace...
Top Ten Butterfly Plants: This List Might Surprise You by The Garden Buzz on Mar 5, 2010 in Birds Books Butterflies Environmental Issues Flowers Garden and Nature Habitat Gardening Perennials Shrubs Trees birch black cherry butterflies crabapple elm entomologist food webs insects lepidoptera maple native plants oak pine plant communities trees wild ones willow Turns out the best plants for attracting butterflies to your garden are actually trees. I know! Who would have thought? Frosty pines in my front yard The Garden Buzz File it under the "Well, how about that" category; it just proves that whe...
Forcing Branches to Bloom: A Little Gentle Persuasion by The Garden Buzz on Feb 25, 2010 in Color Flowers Garden and Nature Shrubs Spring Garden Trees almond cherry crabapple honeysuckle quince spirea There's nothing like a few sprigs of apple blossoms or forsythia flowers to chase away the last of the winter blues. It's easy to do and does wonders for your spirits. I had been eying the crabapple in our cul-de-sac. I just hadn't figured out how to...
St. Paul to Ash Borer: Let the Battle Begin by Twin Cities Naturalist on Feb 21, 2010 in Trees Emerald Ash Borer St. Paul (photo credit: US Forest Service)It seems like a lot of the efforts thus far in the new battle against the invasive emerald ash borer have been reactive on the part of St. Paul, Minnesota. This is completely understandable with a new invasion like th...
Signs of Spring-Maple Buds Already! by Twin Cities Naturalist on Jan 18, 2010 in Trees Maple Syruping Buds Spring I noticed something unbelievable this weekend while I was out for a snowshoe hike in the woods. I was searching the tree's for owls when an unexpected sight caught my eye. The red maple trees already have swelling buds. I think I smiled. I have to ad...
Squirrel Stripping by Orange Is My Favorite Color on Dec 26, 2009 in mammals trees The gray squirrels in my backyard have been systematically stripping the bark off my basswood tree branches. They chose branches that are about an inch in diameter and peel the bark back in strips many feet long. They gather the strips of bark into...
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