My grandparents lived modestly. Most from their generation did. It wasn't a choice. It was necessity. My grandmother and grandfather were teens when the depression hit, so instead of enjoying their ...

Shakespeare would have made a fine plant taxonomist, as he understood the importance of fruits in identifying plants. The fruits of this tree are poisonous, they say, so don’t fool around with them.

A lovely shade tree, I played beneath its canopy; rolled its berries in my palm. It stood seven yards beyond an old hand-dug well. I sucked nectar from delicate tubes in yellow-green tangles of ...

“…the tree may be known by the fruit, as the fruit by the tree…” — King Henry IV, part 1; Act 4, Scene 2. Shakespeare would have made a fine plant ...

WHEN Rodney Crowell was a child, he and his mother planted three Chinaberry trees in front of their rickety family home in Jacinto City. The three trees were named after Crowell, his mother, Cauzette, ...

My grandparents lived modestly. Most from their generation did. It wasn’t a choice. It was necessity. My grandmother and grandfather were teens when the depression hit, so instead of enjoying their ...

Question: Help me decide if I can keep my 12-year-old Chinaberry tree. I fear it has sooty canker disease because it has some branches dying. But it does not have peeling bark. It is a joy in the ...

"Remember that the Lord rescued you from the iron-smelting furnace of Egypt in order to make you his very own people and his special possession." Deuteronomy 4:20 NLT Smell may do the best job at ...

Q: Why is my chinaberry tree losing its bark? It also doesn’t look very healthy. I’m seeing tiny black insects on its trunk. I’m watering it carefully in the hopes of saving it. What would you suggest ...

The very name of the town seems to beg the question. Why is it called China Grove? Chartered in 1889, the southern Rowan County town is named for the grove of Chinaberry trees that once stood near the ...