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Big heart: Following cancer battle, J Rex releases new album
Published: 2024-03-20 15:30:35For Jerad Davis, it all started with a dry, nagging cough in the summer of 2022. With shortness of breath, low energy, brain fog and night sweats, he initially chalked it up to long COVID. But, upon going to the doctor and through some medical procedures...
Read MoreNotes from a plant nerd: Invasive Plants
Published: 2024-03-13 15:33:02I’ve been writing this column for over a year and a half and every plant that I have highlighted and celebrated evolved and co-evolved in the bioregion of Southern Appalachia. . And believe me, I am far from done telling you stories of the native plant...
Read MoreNotes from a plant nerd: Don’t you boil this cabbage down
Published: 2024-02-21 16:50:41There are so many different native plants and flowers that I have yet to see growing in the wild. And I really want to. . These include plants that grow nearby but are rare and specialized enough that I just haven’t found them yet, as well as plants th...
Read MoreNotes from a plant nerd: Barking up the right tree
Published: 2024-02-07 16:19:46To get through the winter, some plants go underground to take advantage of the earth’s insulation, while others stay above ground and protect themselves in other ways. . These are the woody plants, and woody plants can be trees, shrubs or vines. Often ...
Read MorePrune like a pro
Published: 2024-01-31 15:50:31Learn how to give your fruit trees some love with a workshop starting at 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 3, at Winding Stair Nursery in Franklin. . Horticulturist Adam Bigelow will discuss tools and techniques to prune and train fruit-bearing trees to optimize th...
Read MoreNotes from a plant nerd: Hey Buds!
Published: 2024-01-17 15:49:38Hunkered down for the long winter, wrapped in multiple layers and prepared for the cold, I have a lot in common with the flower and leaf buds of woody plants. . I tend to go dormant during the dark time of the year just like the trees and wildflowers. I...
Read MoreNotes from a plant nerd: In the pines
Published: 2024-01-03 16:22:57In the Cherokee cosmology, evergreen trees were given their ability to hold onto their leaves all winter as a reward for s taying up all night long for seven days, keeping the sacred fire lit. . Of the many species of trees given this task, only those fe...
Read MoreNotes from a plant nerd: Oh balsam tree, oh balsam tree
Published: 2023-12-20 15:11:03At the highest elevations of the Southern Appalachians grow two evergreen trees that give the Balsam Mountains their name — red spruce (Picea rubens) and Fraser fir (Abies fraseri). . Both of these tree species hold onto their leaves all winter long, l...
Read MoreNotes from a plant nerd: Like a podium
Published: 2023-12-06 15:19:45Creeping along the forest floor is a group of native plants that look like mosses, but aren’t mosses. . They reproduce using spores just like mosses and ferns do, but they aren’t ferns either. What are they? They are plants in the lycopodium family (...
Read MoreNotes from a plant nerd: You reap what you sow … if you’re lucky
Published: 2023-11-15 14:52:43Whoever first wrote down the phrase, “You reap what you sow” was definitely not a farmer or gardener. I’ve started following that phrase with, “…if you’re lucky.” . See, I’ve been gardening with native plants and growing vegetables for a ...
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