I have a Great Lakes-style basket of uncertain age, probably of split ash (it’s signed “Ruby Lincoln” on the bottom and might be Menominee or Ho-Chunk). The material has gotten brittle; what can I use to preserve it?…
This is a very informative article. Makes it simpler to find out the bird from its nest. Check out these amazing bird nests made in the strangest places.
If the tree was defoliated by insects, or frost, or something external, then it should recover and be fine. If it just didn’t set leaves, it’s a very bad sign. If you still see green you might give…
I have 5 maple trees that have not leafed out this year and it is now July 1! When I break apart some of the branch it is still green. Is there anything I can do? Do you think…
Thanks for this new info, now I wonder if white ash seeds are edible. Trees here are laden with a huge crop of them. When do they fall? Tricks on opening them?
Victoria Weber
Hi Dave:
The dead oaks were probably killed by the combination of gypsy moths and winter moths—a kind of deadly duo where the winter moths defoliate trees in the spring and then the gypsy moths hit them again in…
A very enjoyable article. I have attended the Basket Exhibit and Sale in Bar Harbor since 2000 until the last few years when circumstances have not permitted me to do so. How wonderful to see the continued evolution in the quality…
We have one following after it’s adopted parents. Even with seed covering the ground this little jerk still demanded to be fed. Felt sorry for him until I found proof of what I suspected. What an a-hole!
We called them Polly Noses—we’d take the green ones, split the sticky end where the seed is and then stick them on the ends of our noses. Good times. Never knew we might have eaten them!
A) “We swam in pounding surf – the kind that knocks you around and humbles you”
You must be a hardy specimen to swim in the Atlantic at this time of year!
B) “Seabirds – common terns, I guess”
Likelier to be…
I’ve a problem complicated by another problem.
1. I’ve 2 Spruce with trunk diameters of about 14+ inches. One was blown into, and prevented from falling by, the second such that one tree which is not cut is fully leaning into…
I just found my oak truck covered with head-down, dead gypsy moth caterpillars. 6/26/15. Thank you for the informative article. I will let the spores continue!
Hey there - in response to your question, we contacted a tree expert who helped to fact check this article. He wasn’t able to confirm that Norway maple seeds are edible. So, out of an abundance of caution, best…
I don’t know a lot about birds, but I found a lovely straw cup shaped nest in a thorny bush 4 or 5 feet up. It had 5 blue speckled/mottled eggs in it. I was pruning the bush back, and I…
I have a wild grape growing on my property. The main stem is as big as my upper arm, and it grows huge quantities of vines every season. It also produces, by mid-May, hundreds and hundreds of clusters of tiny…
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