Blue Jay Barrens

This field was on the schedule to be mowed in November, but the mowing was postponed until I could remove the small army of tiny cedars t...

The most frequent comment I get from people seeing my newly mowed fields is “Hey, you missed something.”  My conversational skills are al...

I’m guessing that we’re just past the peak of the Flowering Dogwood blooms.   It’s odd that the dogwood buds all began to swell and ope...

The shrubs at Blue Jay Barrens really took advantage of the week of warm weather we just had.   Redbud flower buds were just beginning ...

A look at some common Blue Jay Barrens shrubs showed only one species to be in full bloom.   The Hazelnut, Corylus americana , is cover...

There’s a chance of rain today, but the effects of a ten week drought cannot be reversed. Blue Jay Barrens experienced excessive rainfall ea...

Flowering Dogwood, Cornus florida , has put on a wonderful show this spring. The tree’s horizontal branching pattern produces layers of flow...