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Table Mountain pine
Published: 2014-07-16 20:26:37Have you ever been walking one of the wind-swept, sun-bitten, high-elevation rock outcrops in the Smokies region when you suddenly encountered a grove of strange, almost stunted looking pines with outlandish cones? As described by Donald C. Peattie in A ...
Read MoreMountain lion lore
Published: 2014-07-16 20:17:23I frequently hear from people who have spotted a mountain lion in Western North Carolina. Or at least they think that’s what they saw. I’d guess that about 95 percent of these sightings are of something else. But the other 5 percent seem to be pretty...
Read MoreThe Asian connection
Published: 2014-07-16 19:45:14I’ve never been to Asia, but ever since I was a youngster I have, from time to time, fantasized about doing so. For years, I read every adventure-travel book I could find about the region. And I still love happening upon new books about plant explorati...
Read MoreGetting at the nitty gritty of history
Published: 2014-07-16 14:08:23Regional histories are my favorite literary genre. It’s in them that the nitty-gritty of everyday life is most clearly portrayed. Dr. H.G. Jones’ Scoundrels, Rogues and Heroes of the Old North State (Charleston SC: The History Press, 2005, soft cover...
Read MoreStrawberry wine and its place in the Smokies
Published: 2014-07-09 03:30:03To the Editor: I have never met George Ellison, but I am appalled as a result of his referring to Granville Calhoun as an untruthful person in a column published back in November 2013. I am a great niece of Granville’s. My grandfather, William Clifford...
Read MoreSourwood honey is a favorite among connoisseurs
Published: 2014-07-02 13:43:57Now is sourwood time. From late June into mid-August sourwood trees will be flowering throughout Western North Carolina, from the lowest elevations to almost 5,000 feet. Here, then, more or less at random, are some notes from my sourwood file: . • Nect...
Read MoreThe doghobble’s claim to fame
Published: 2014-06-23 13:43:10Whenever I’m conducting a native plant identification workshop, I try to note several regional plants — one each in the fern, shrub, and tree categories that participants might utilize effectively in an ornamental setting. I usually recommend cinnamo...
Read MoreCast out the castor
Published: 2014-06-20 15:08:00The gardening season is upon us. Many gardeners here in the Smokies region are familiar with mole bean plant, also known as castor bean. The first name is derived from the fact the plants are often placed strategically at the corners of garden plots to d...
Read MoreSquirrel stories
Published: 2014-06-18 20:21:16It seems to me that the general reputation of squirrels has declined within my own lifetime. I don’t recall hearing negative remarks about squirrels when I was growing up; indeed, most folks that I encountered back then seemed to hold them in rather hi...
Read MoreStuck in a stinky situation
Published: 2014-06-18 19:57:42Hopefully, any encounter you have with a skunk will be a sighting, not a spraying. Neither my wife nor I have ever been sprayed by a polecat. But our dogs have — and they were pitiful creatures for days afterward. . Five skunk species are resident in t...
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