Posts made in April, 2020

Poison Ivy Is Shiny: True or False?

Posted by on Apr 28, 2020 in Unmowed Blog | 0 comments

Poison Ivy Is Shiny: True or False?

You can always spot poison ivy because it’s shiny. True or false?
Standardized tests aside, answers in real life are rarely absolutely true or completely false. Poison ivy shiny? True, sometimes, especially in spring. False, most of the time.

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Best Trees of the Decade

Posted by on Apr 26, 2020 in Unmowed Blog | 0 comments

Best Trees of the Decade

Do they watch us go by–or sense us somehow? Scientists are finding out that plants are more complex, and have more ability to communicate, than we had ever dreamed. Do they notice us, miss us, mourn us?

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Burdock: Wicked Hooks

Posted by on Apr 25, 2020 in Unmowed Blog | 0 comments

Burdock: Wicked Hooks

Velcro was invented by a scientist whose dog blundered into the tall prickly plant called burdock. And nothing adheres to fuzzy surfaces more effectively than the wickedly curved hooks of burdock.

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Spring Snow

Posted by on Apr 23, 2020 in flowers, Unmowed Blog | 0 comments

Spring Snow

A walk on mountain trail on a rainy, gloomy spring day. The wind is icy, and there are snowflakes in the air, but you know that winter’s only joking–one last tease before she gives up for the year.

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How To Get Poison Ivy

Posted by on Apr 15, 2020 in Unmowed Blog | 0 comments

How To Get Poison Ivy

Just how does this little green leaf work its devastation on the human race? Many people swear that they’ve gotten poison ivy simply by walking past it. Not so.

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