Purdue Extension forester Lenny Farlee introduces you to the Devil’s Walking Stick, a small tree from the ginseng family found in southern Indiana. It is identifiable by thorns or spikes along the ...

Aralia spinosa is often called devil’s walking stick, taking its name from the thorns all along the branches. L.A. JACKSON I have an interesting small tree on the wooded edge of my landscape. It is ...

It’s back-to-school time, and that means school buses on the highways, while we drive to our next field trip destination. The end of summer is a good time to be looking for the season’s “late bloomers ...

I was walking along a creek in Harris County the other day when a greenbrier vine tripped me. To break my fall I grabbed the nearest sapling — which was a mistake. The sapling was a Devil’s walking ...

I was walking along a creek in Harris County the other day when a greenbrier vine tripped me. To break my fall I grabbed the nearest sapling — which was a mistake. The sapling was a Devil’s walking ...

The few times I have moved to a new home in my life, I have followed the traditional advice not to make major changes in my landscape until a year has passed. In my case, this wasn’t always by design, ...

I have an interesting small tree on the wooded edge of my landscape. It is about 8 feet tall with fans of 2- to 3-inch oval leaves and has large sprays of small, off-white flowers above each cane. The ...