Tag: Native Plants

  • Poison Ivy in Autumn

    Poison Ivy in Autumn

    Autumn brings along surprises with native Poison Ivy. The plant’s leaves become beautiful, luminous colors. Some reach out from tree trunks disguising the fact that it is a vine and one that humans should avoid. It’s not a tree but a climbing vine. Easy to think as the vine wraps round and climbs the tree…

  • Poison Ivy

    Poison Ivy

    Poison Ivy, Toxicodendron radicans I’m feeling itchy already just anticipating writing this blog. It was not until I was well into my adult life that I first got a Poison Ivy rash, complete with huge blisters. OH! How very painful it was. Fast forward 30 years or so and I’ve grown to love, or at least…