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Category: Flora

Another blackberry winter

Posted on May 10, 2007May 31, 2007 by Staff

Close inspection will reveal the green ‘baby’ blackberry fruit in the center of the white petals. Photo by Ken Moore By Ken Moore It’s early May and the blackberry “brambles” are brightening field edges and roadsides with masses of pure white flowers. When these same blackberry flower-filled days and nights are really, really chilly, the…

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Let our medians bloom

Posted on May 3, 2007May 31, 2007 by Staff

Flowing hummocks of clover filling the highway median south of town. Photo by Ken Moore By Ken Moore “Grass is the most abused of all plants!” decried Steve Warner, a cherished older friend of mine, an Ohio landscape architect who many years ago retired down on a farm on the White Oak River near Swansboro….

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Take a closer look!

Posted on April 26, 2007May 31, 2007 by Staff

Your best landscape plants may already be in place By Ken Moore A group of folks on the Haw River Assembly’s Earth Day walk along the new Haw River Natural area this past Saturday were happy to discover one of those pawpaw patches described in last week’s Citizen. A few of the flowers had survived…

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Way down yonder in the pawpaw patch

Posted on April 18, 2007May 31, 2007 by Staff

Paw-paw blossoms have had a rough time this year. Photo by Ken Moore. By Ken Moore Wow, we now know that because of that recent record-breaking late cold snap, peaches, strawberries and blueberries are going to be really pricey this harvest season. Wait till you see the prices on pawpaws! Well, you probably won’t see…

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Another regular, irregular Carolina Piedmont spring

Posted on April 11, 2007May 31, 2007 by Staff

Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis). Photo by Ken Moore By Ken Moore It’s spring again in the Carolina Piedmont. That means another round of predictably unpredictable weather that sets serious and not-so-serious gardeners into an annual frenzy. Over the years I’ve come to anticipate that when the exotic Star magnolias and the Bradford pears come into flower…

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Beware the march of the Bradford pears

Posted on April 5, 2007May 31, 2007 by Staff

The natural beauty of the Dogwood is under increasing competition from the Bradford Pear. Photo by Ken Moore By Ken Moore Approaching Carrboro along Jones Ferry Road is always a botanically joyful experience of viewing our seasonal wild flora from the spectacular flowering trees in the spring to the more subtle beauty of native grasses…

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Take a Walk in the Woods and Pay Attention to the Beech Leaves

Posted on March 29, 2007May 31, 2007 by Staff

Take a Walk in the Woods and Pay Attention to the Beech Leaves By Ken Moore As Dave Cook engagingly describes in The Piedmont Almanac, “There is something conclusive about the day the old brown beech leaves fall.” Dave’s observation is for the fourth week of March — and he is right on target for…

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