Ocean Isle Beach Nature Trail
Coastal plants are some of my favorites and the nature trail at Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina, is a good place to get up close. Boardwalks take you across squishy bits of the tidal marsh and into the sandy maritime…
Wildflowers Along the Railroad Tracks
On a meandering trip back from the coast recently I stopped at the library in Fair Bluff, NC, and popped out of the car for a minute to stretch my legs. There's a railroad track just across from the library,…
Stewartia malacodendron
The ornamental value of Stewartia malacodendron has been described by authors of gardening and botanical literature for at least 200 years. William Bartram in his Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida (1791) mentioned the plant…