by Pa Mac | Feb 27, 2013 | Trees 'n' Wild Plants
First, the name. Bodark, or bois d’arc, or Osage orange, or hedge apple, or horse apple, or bowwood; take your pick. If you want to be fancy, call it Maclura pomifera. I’ll refer to it as my folks always did: bodark. One of the main uses for wood on the traditional...
by Pa Mac | Dec 10, 2012 | Trees 'n' Wild Plants
Black walnut wins my “Best Smelling Wood” award…even better than cedar. Not many would disagree that walnut is one of the most beautiful woods. It’s fine grained and so easily worked, and at the same time putting off the most gratifying aroma. We think of wood as...
by Pa Mac | Aug 27, 2012 | Trees 'n' Wild Plants
I’m pretty sure that greens are called greens for no other reason than…they are, in fact, green. Some are red or blue tinged, but still basically green. Their hue is most noticeably observed in late fall or early spring when not much else around has hue....
