Tristans Unkraut

After a day in Chicago we headed out to Red Fern Farm in Iowa just west of the Mississippi on July 16th. I stayed for three days and never learned so much in such a short time. Tom and Kathy Wahl have been planting Chestnut trees there about 30 years…

The following plants are ones I discovered growing here at Mountain Gardens in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina at 1.000 m height in USDA hardiness zone 6b. Many of these plants are said in the literature to not be hardy enough or are…

Because of the fire at Mountain Gardens, we had to fell some burned trees and ended up with a lot of wood. The trunks went into lumber production, the small branches are drying to be used as firewood and the medium sized branches and tree stumps are…