Spicebush (Lindera benzoin) If you want to spice up your landscape, plant this native understory small bushy tree and the spicebush butterflies may grace you with their presence. Spicebush, along […]
Virtual Discovery Stations: Native Trees
In this eleven part series, Volunteer Naturalist shares history, lore, and information about some of Kentucky’s finest native tree species. Each of these species can be found here at Bernheim. […]
Bernheim at 90: Bringing Bernheim Home with You
Every place you visit and love becomes a part of you. You might say that those places go home with us. They become, as Bernheim’s Education Director Whitney Wurzel likes […]
Tales from the Bent Twig Trail: Slow and Steady Does It
My year of writing this blog is ending. It’s been a wonderful journey, providing me the opportunity to slow down, pay attention, and share with you some of my discoveries […]
Trails from the Bent Twig Trail: The Cycle Continues
They’re back! The spicebush butterflies have been laying their eggs on the spicebush, Lindera benzoin and sassafras trees Sassafras albidum on the Bent Twig Trail and elsewhere. Some of those eggs have […]