With special thanks to our iQmetrix volunteers, TreesDavidson planted five “Cherokee Brave” dogwoods along the west side of the greenway just north of Robert Walker Drive in late March 2018. Watch them grow – and sign up to join us for future tree-planting volunteer opportunities! […]
Category: Plantlife
Get to Know the Sweet Gum Tree
Sweet gum trees are native beauties. […]
Do You Know the Pawpaw Tree?
Pawpaw is a fruit that grows in the woods in our area. […]
I’m Just Fine with Dandelions
Take a walk, and look at the lawns of the houses you pass. Most of them will be neatly trimmed and made out of grass. After all, a beautiful green lawn is a status symbol in suburbs around the world. However, there is a catch. Growing a grass lawn often requires pesticides to keep insects […]
Weather or Not
Not too long ago, seasons were clearly defined things. Winter was cold. Spring was warm. Summer was hot. Autumn was cool. Nowadays, however, man-made climate change has made telling the seasons apart and predicting what the weather will be a real headache—especially for farmers. In the space of one month, we might have snow, balmy […]
Share Your Garden With Wildlife
What do you think of when you think of a garden? Perhaps a neat, orderly arrangement of flowers, or maybe rows and rows of fruits and vegetables? Whatever you think of, you probably don’t think of it as a wildlife habitat first and foremost. Of course, that doesn’t need to be the case. After all, […]
The Dirt on Decomposers
Think about soil for a moment: the brown, lumpy, crusty stuff that makes up the ground you walk on. Have you ever wondered where it all comes from? Soil is the end result of a process called decomposition, which is the breakdown of organic material (dead plants and animals) by organisms called decomposers. When a […]
Pollen: Nothing to Sneeze At
It’s spring, which for many of us here in Davidson means the return of flowers, birds, butterflies, and other pleasant things. However, it also means the return of something generally considered to be unpleasant—pollen. Pollen, be it from trees, from ragweed, or from flowers, is one of the leading causes of allergies. However, pollen also […]
Mutualism: A Cycle of Support
The saying goes that nature is red in tooth and claw. And for the most part, this is true. After all, organisms of one species do not go out of their way to help those of other species on purpose. . . at least not normally. But then you have cases of symbiosis, where two […]
