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Roadside Beauties

October 29, 2020 By Jim Brewer

Roadside Beauties

Lots of folks are out and about this time of year, admiring the changing leaves and all their colors. I suggest instead of looking up at the leaves to look down along the roadsides where there is even more beauty. One of the most stunning plants growing wild beside our roads is sumac. The most common is Smooth Sumac and the colorations range from blaze orange to a deep burgundy. The plant, a tree … [Read more...]

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Roadside Chicory

October 15, 2020 By Jim Brewer

Roadside Chicory

I have become fascinated with all the beautiful weeds and wildflowers that grow literally on the sides of our roads. One I have noticed in recent weeks is a lovely bluish, purple flower that I believe is wild chicory, sometimes called a blue daisy, blue dandelion or horseweed. It has just recently bloomed and I see it in clusters. Like many other of these oft-ignored plant/weeds, it is quite … [Read more...]

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The Versatile and Beautiful Goldenrod

October 8, 2020 By Jim Brewer

The Versatile and Beautiful Goldenrod

The crop of goldenrod this fall has outdone itself. Standing tall, often along a spread of Black-Eyed Susans, goldenrod provides a colorful sea of gold and yellow along our roads and highways. Yeah, but goldenrod is the stuff that causes all those allergies. Get rid of it. Not so fast. Goldenrod is frequently blamed for allergies caused by ragweed. Ragweed, which often grows alongside … [Read more...]

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Black-Eyed Susans, Standing Proud

September 24, 2020 By Jim Brewer

Black-Eyed Susans, Standing Proud

  From the Middle Neck of Virginia to the Shenandoah Valley and throughout Central Virginia, black-eyed Susans are standing tall and proud – and beautiful. I have never seen such displays of radiant yellow. The friendly wildflowers are simply stunning his year. It amazes me all that grows beside the roads, along the interstates and back roads. The little strips of dirt between the … [Read more...]

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Order of the Thistle

September 3, 2020 By Jim Brewer

Order of the Thistle

  If you’ve ever tried to uproot a thistle in your yard or garden, it’s doubtful you’re a big fan of the lovely weed. How did this thing get in here, you’ll wonder. A single thistle plant, however, can produce up to 4,000 seeds that go airborne and settle wherever they find a fertile spot, like a garden. Roadsides work, too. We played golf at Heritage Oaks in Harrisonburg a week or so … [Read more...]

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A Beautiful Butterfly Weed

August 6, 2020 By Jim Brewer

A Beautiful Butterfly Weed

One of our most prized plantings this year is a gorgeous Butterflyweed. This spring, Nancy picked a half dozen small seeds from a Butterflyweed pod. She started them inside and nurtured them into small plants. When she brought them outside, she knew the damned squirrels would get in them and dig them up so she put a heavy wire guard around them with a top to keep the squirrels from climbing … [Read more...]

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Queen Anne’s Lace

July 30, 2020 By Jim Brewer

Queen Anne’s Lace

  There is a stretch of sheer beauty along Route 29 just south of Ruckersville. For several hundred yards, tens of thousands of Queen Anne’s Lace plants adorn the roadside. It’s  almost as white as a January snowfall. I wrote about  Queen Anne’s Lace last year and received many responses from others who admire this delicate plant. Some advised that the lace-like flowers could be … [Read more...]

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Good Morning, Morning Glories

July 16, 2020 By Jim Brewer

Good Morning, Morning Glories

Morning Glories are night people. They bloom and party and carry on all night, and when daytime comes, they close up shop and snooze all day. But if you get a peek at them before they tuck themselves in, they are certainly pretty things. Recently, I have been seeing a few morning glories growing wild on the sides of the roads. These special places often hold many wildflowers and plants you … [Read more...]

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Black-eyed Susans

July 2, 2020 By Jim Brewer

Our roadsides are now coming alive with beautiful blooms and flowers – most coming from what we consider to be plain old weeds. Black eyed Susans, for one. Lots of those pretty flowers and weeds we see alongside our roads and highways are “come-heres”, native to other countries – Europe, Asia, Africa and the like, but the friendly little Black-eyed Susans are as American as apple pie. They are … [Read more...]

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Red Clover

June 25, 2020 By Jim Brewer

Red Clover

All along our roadsides, a beautiful pink plant is now blooming. It’s red clover, a lovely and versatile member of the bean family. Red clover is a short-lived perennial and can grow to heights of nearly three feet. Many of the plants I saw while heading to the Shenandoah Valley last weekend were pushing two feet and they were beautiful. Red clover is not native to America, but has thrived … [Read more...]

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