Blue Jay Barrens

How do you know when you’ve seen the last bloom of the year? Natural variations cause individual plants to develop at slightly different r...

If you have trees, you’re bound to have some vines. Big vines need big trees for support. This Eastern Red Cedar and its accompanying gra...

People seem to believe that autumn means that plants are slowing down and ending their growth for the year. While this is true of many pla...

Here’s a nice green patch on the hillside. It looks sort of out of place with all the surrounding brown. This plant is not a grass. This...

I seem to have a reputation for killing anything that’s not native. I do spend a lot of time removing those exotic species that have a neg...

For a place of dry prairies, Blue Jay Barrens certainly has a lot of islands. One common type of island is formed by a single large cedar ...

I found a couple of owl pellets beneath one of the big cedars. Owl pellets are the regurgitated mass of material that the owl is unable to...