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Most Poplars in a wooded area will not have low hanging branches. Poplars in an open area may have lower limbs. They are about 15 years old before they start producing flowers. We cut , made timber from Poplars and built a barn years ago. Morel mushrooms can be found around Popular trees.

Thank you for sharing! I came to your channel to learn about 'Amaranth' leaves, and I feel lucky and blessed that I found you. Keep going, the next generation needs your knowledge! Stay blessed! 💯❣🙏

What an interesting video. Thank you for sharing it.

Thank you that was informative, lovely and entertaining.

That was magnificent. Absolutely loved it Loven. Appreciate you and your lovely lovely love

I am tooo Excited for these, so many I never even heard of! Wait is Himalayan Balsam another species of jewelweed!? The Amelanchier I'm most excited about so far, it seems that the "hybrid" amelanchier species are more resistant to the fruit fungus that plagues those trees (And Hawthornes sometimes). Snapdragons!? Oh my, I didn't know those were edible. Purple Snapdragon Genes was used to create the Fully Purple flesh GMO Tomato. Flowers are edible in salads, that's awesome! Glads (Gladiolus spp.)!? Those are edible!? Those are my mom's favorite flowers, oh boy I'm too excited. Other surprises? Bring them on! The way the squirrel turns, purfect!

Looking forward to it! Happy Holidays, Blanche!

Happy holidays, Blanche! 🎄 Thanks for giving us a taste of 2025, it looks delicious.

Sounds good! I just planted a serviceberry in 2023. 🤗

Good info... Thank you...

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Love the music too: nice surprise!

Rose of Sharon is a wonderful edible and medical plant . 🌺 It comes in the color purple and pink and white . 🙂 The butterflies and the bumblebees and the hummingbirds absolutely love this plant . 🌺🦋🐝🐦🌺 You can dry the flowers and the leaves and use it in tea and tinctures. 🤔🌺🌿🤔 They are easy to grow and grow in many different types of soil and climate . 🤔🌲🤔 And spread quickly through their seed pods which has 30 or more seeds each . 🤔 You can also harvest the seeds in late fall and sell them or give them out to friends as gift . 🤔 They are great to use beside your border line like a fence. 🌺🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌺 I store the dry leaves and flowers in a 1 gallon glass jar with a tight lid do not leave the glass jar next to sunlight place it in a dark dry cabinet. 🙂🌿🌺🙂 Great for cough and sore throats . 🤔 Great for high blood pressure and cholesterol and diabetes. 🤔🌺🤔 Great for urine tract infections. 🤔 You can make a paste out of fresh leaves and place it on minor wounds. 🤔 It also has a high amount of vitamin C . 🤔 I have them growing on both sides of my property line . 🤔 If you were to buy this at home Depot or Lowe's they go from $40.00 up to $100.00 . 😮🌲🌺😮 If you take good care of these wonderful trees The Rose of Sharon they can grow up to 20 ft tall . 🙂🌲😍🌲🙂 They grow extremely quickly . They spread extremely quickly. 🙂🌺🙂 They are medical and edible and great for emergency situations and survival . 🤔🙂🤔 God bless the American people . 🙏🇺🇲🙏

I'm suprised you found Larger fruits types, It appears that the larger types are less "Invasive" Because birds have a Harder time eating bigger fruits. Elizapples is currently Working on Breeding Callery Pear for that purpose. I like the flavor of Bletted Soft Callery Pear fruits but was disapointed by their Crab-Apple Size. Where do you find the Larger fruits? They legit look like Asian Sand Pears (Pyrus pyrifolia) but in Minature. I also wonder if you cook the entire fruits, separating the seeds won't have to be required right? Have you also experimented with grafting those "Trash" Trees? It would make them less invasive and give you good fruit at the same time. I hope to find the Larger kind of Callery Pear.

What a beautiful dress...yees we eat pine pollen in Greece..we have lots of pines...

I love your tea pot

thank you

I don't think I have ever seen the larger fruited types. You can actually graft other pear varieties onto seedling callery pears.

What gets me is the fact that callery pear blossoms smell no worse than regular fruiting pears. So do people want to purge all the pear trees now just because they never smelled one before? I'm actually just fine with the smell and with the whole tree in general. I love the fall foilage and the spring blooms.

I was co-cartaker of an old Huguenot farmhouse in west central France where there was a grove of chestnuts. We used to cook them over the fire through fall and winter.

Nice, I noticed this myself, Some years back, that some Callery pear fruits actually tasted okay late in the season. I would add if anyone wants to have edible pear fruits, just plant a disease resistant edible pear like kieffer, moonglow, or any of the "Harrow" series. European and larger domestic asian pears are not invasive because the fruits are too large to be moved long distances easily by most wild animals. :) Glad to have found your channel, I currently teach high school biology myself.

What a beautiful video. I was not aware that you'd been an art teacher, but it shines through on every video. It was fun to see a few samples of your work and hear more about your life. These pears have been planted in several villages nearby, but fortunately the 'fastigiata' variety they chose does not seem to bear fruit at all. They do indeed make a useful street tree, without constant pruning to keep them in line, nor, in this case, fruits to fall on cars. I remember that in Seattle, the city made the disastrous decision to plant cherry trees on our street a few years before we left. We disagreed and planted Norway globe maples in our parking strip instead. Google Earth tells me they are still there and looking much as they did, only fatter.

🍐🍐🍐 Lovely informative video.

We have these pears all around and I never noticed fruit. I wonder if the varieties here all have the smaller fruit which is eaten quickly by wildlife. I find the art at 2:12 very pleasant to look at, just like your artful arrangements. 😊 I was a wanna-be art teacher; I taught various things at the elementary school level with an artistic bent.

I loved your video

Thanks for making another great video.

This is valuable information. I thank you for all your vids, they are gems. ❤

Thank you, I didn't know what they were and when I heard nightshade, it freaked me out a bit because I tasted one. I replanted the plant that was growing in my rose bush, to it's own spot, & we'll see how it grows for next fall.

Wow a new berry for me!! Cool !! I just found out about haskap berries. That tree you found is insane in size!! Wow what a find !! I wanted to find ginkgo biloba nuts and will barter with you Blanche? I would make a syrup with those berries!!

Great video and chock full of informative knowledge. I am determined to find the edible tasting black nightshade. I didn’t devote any time looking for the black nightshade edibles at the proper time. Blanche I made autumn olive syrup, white mulberry, black mulberry, hawthorn, wineberry. Maine has a new berry to me called Haskap berries. A huge tree farm in Fort Kent ME. Lmao as I responded to this video 3 years ago !! But I will leave the comment because of the syrup making. I wonder what black nightshade syrup would taste like? I use a 11 quart steam juicer and then fill it up.

They grow in Indiana. PRetty purple flowers. As soon as they bloom they're out of here. NOT mixing these up and eating a poisonous one.

MFW I literally did this without ever seeing this video, figured it out ALL by myself xDDDDDDDDD

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They are so wonderful and delicious!!! I love Shiso! Your shrubs look so healthy!

i love you blanche !!!

There is a generically modified American Chestnut on the way. I believe it has a gene from a grass (not sure), but it will restore the American Chestnut. The hybrids don't look/grow like the American ones did. I have some Asian ones on my property. Copious nuts each fall.

Beautiful videos at just the right speed.

I love your voice and the valuable information!

Excellent as usual. I think I pursued the most curiosities in this video over all of your others; from the song/artist,, to black haw fruit, to crystalized sugar on fruit's exterior (I thought it was mold also when I noticed a little on one you found on the ground), to using seeds for coffee... I can say I bought and planted a Meader American Persimmon tree last fall. It was developed to be self-pollinating and hardy for colder zones (though I live in zone 7 and I have seen at least one in the wild).. I love your artistic touches, too. Thanks!

I love these videos! I've been making persimmon leaf tea too. I recently learned that in Korea they steam the leaves after they dry them and then dry them again. I'm not sure what effect this extra process has on the final tea.

I'm jealous that you have ripe ones so early, and some with structural integrity to them! I live far further south and find them not to be palatable until they're fully the gross-looking blobs, often well into November.

Blanche, this was excellent. They grow abundantly here in northwest Arkansas.

Persimmon Coffee!!! I'm excited. Have to try that. Love your videos.💕

Some persimmons can produce fruits without a pollinator. (Meader for example).

Chinese chestnuts may be cheap but the bitter furry skin is hard to remove from the nut. French chestnuts are the best for this and their flavour, but British shops and markets do not sell them because they are too expensive relative to the Chinese variety.

I love chestnuts. Although the American species don’t really have those shiny leaves. The American chestnut might be gone but I do believe chinquapins will make a comeback. The ozark chinquapin now has blight resistance thanks to the ozark chinquapin foundation!

Thank you for the informative video! Ben

I eat this

Excellent video! I found a producing American chestnut sprout once off the Appalachian Trail in Virginia. About 40 years ago. Gathered 8 maybe 10 nuts I could find. Tried to grow but not able. Tried also the new American Chestnut Foundations resistant seeds ($300 2 seeds) 2 years in a row! Got 2 plants but squirrels ate them down to the ground! Even had them caged! Either I’m lousy at planting them or squirrels so excited about them they couldn’t wait!