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Cephalanthus occidentalis: Architect of the Shallow Water World
Woodlanders Botanical Essay Architect of the Shallow Water World Cephalanthus occidentalis, the quiet engineer of wetlands, and what it means to be an edge species in an edge era....
Baccharis halimifolia (Manglier): Medicine Along the Marsh Edge
Drive the Atlantic or Gulf coast in late fall and you might think it has snowed along the ditches. There, at the edges where the land hesitates and then...
Quercus stellata: The Reluctant Monarch of Poor Soils
Woodlanders Field Notes | PHOTO BY STEPHANIE BRUNDAGE Quercus stellata: Post Oak, Boundary Tree Some trees feel like they’re just passing through a place. Post oak, Quercus stellata, feels...
Sunquat: The Forgotten Hybrid with a Future
A Citrus That Slips Between Categories There is a citrus you can bite into whole, peel and all, with none of the puckering violence of a lemon and none of...
Why Quercus alba Must Return
If Quercus alba could write its autobiography, it might end with gratitude. Not for the ships it built or the barrels it sealed, but for the overlooked gardeners and land...
Autumn Care for the Southeast’s Heirloom Woody Plants
There’s a certain sleight of hand in the Southeastern autumn. A kind of quiet alchemy, almost invisible if you only watch the trees from above ground. The leaves do their...
At Summer’s End: The Sacred Gardens of Faith
"What is a garden," the monk once asked,"but a prayer made visible?" I felt compelled to write this article after a recent visit to Madrid, where my two sisters have...
Watchers of the Waterways: The History of North America's Willows
In the hush of Southern dusk, where the last ribbons of gold slip off the water and vanish behind the cypress knees, the willow waits. She leans—always leans—toward the current,...