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Tom is back with a new tree.  Here’s his next entry in the Trees of Toad Valley.  If you’d like to check out all of the others, find them here. Author: Tom Brady Sweetgum, “Liquidamber Styraciflue” I first encountered Sweetgum in Harper’s Ferry National Park, West Virginia.  I was there to learn about John Brown’s […]

It’s been awhile since we had Tom the Tree Man provide us with an excerpt about a tree located on the golf course.  If you’d like to read others, check them out:  Sawtooth Oak, American Persimmon, Tulip Tree, and the Chinese Elm. Take it away, Tom! Author:  Tom Brady Larch, “Larix genus.” Rather than write […]

Here’s is my dad back with another edition of the Trees of Toad Valley.  If you’d like to read others, check them out:  Sawtooth Oak, American Persimmon, and the Chinese Elm. Author:  Tom Brady As I have mentioned in the past, this is an article that originally appeared in the Iowa Woodland Owners Association newsletter titled […]

Tom’s back with another Non-Native Tree found on the golf course.   To find out about other trees, click here or here. Author:  Tom Brady Persimmon Diospyros virginiana Persimmon is a deciduous tree with distinctive dark thick bark typically broken into small squarish blocks.  When young, the bark is lighter brown with pale fissures. The […]