Archive for the ‘Trees’ Category

Hedge apples. We used to call them horse apples in Texas…

You may have seen the 4-6 inch round, wrinkled lime-green fruits lying on the side of the road recently.   These are the (inedible to humans) fruit of the ‘Osage orange’ tree (named for the Osage Indians).  They have fallen from large, old trees that were often originally planted by farmers and trained as a hedge […]

Another poor cottonwood tree injury…

Monday night’s thunderstorm and lightening left us with a huge cottonwood branch blocking Kimberly Road.  The tree still stands just the other side of our fence in front.  Many thanks to the carful of men who moved the branch to the side of the road in the pouring rain!  The branch was at least 18 […]