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Q: I am seeing a small tree covered in white blooms on the roadsides right now. What is this tree, and is it a good tree for my yard? A: You are describing the Chickasaw plum trees that are blooming ...

Such weather! This past weekend it snowed here: big, floppy snowflakes everywhere. Of course none of it stuck, but it was pretty for a while. Cold, too. And it’s gotten colder since then! Not to ...

I knew something odd was happening when I got to a forgotten corner of the garden the other day and realized that a four-year old Chickasaw plum was dead. The Chickasaw is sometimes called the ...

Driving to Athens on Georgia 316 last week, I kept glancing at the many Chickasaw plum thickets sporting their shimmering white blossoms along the highway. A small, native tree, the Chickasaw plum ...

We live in a wonderful forest with many large towering trees. Often overlooked are our many smaller trees. Smaller trees can be very useful in a landscape when you need something to fit into a small ...

There are few trees as showy in bloom as flowering cherries and plums. Covered in pink or white flowers, these trees are often the first to bloom and signal that spring is near. Many species of ...