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42701
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Tim and Matt Nichols cultivate hundreds of new varieties of Japanese maple trees for their mail-order plant business, McMaple. Nichols Nursery is in East Flat Rock.
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34381
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Brothers Tim and Matt Nichols run one of the largest Japanese maple tree operations in the country, propagating and shipping more than one-thousand cultivars. Their business, Mr. Maple nursery, is located in East Flat Rock, Henderson County. In addition to the maples, the Nichols brothers grow nearly five-hundred other kinds of woody ornamental shrubs, including varieties of ginkgo trees and dawn redwoods.
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42626
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The sourwood tree is native to the Southern Appalachian mountain range and is a big attraction for bees and other pollinators.
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36193
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The cover alluded to is mulch, produced naturally to promote wild plant growth. Materials recommended for creating mulch are wood bark/chips, leaves, and straw or hay. Additional incentive to use mulch in gardens were the downside of not having mulch as a natural protectant for plants.
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Carolina Gardener
(NoCar SB 453.2 N8 C37), Vol. 29 Issue 1, February 2017,
p38-41
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36198
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A lot of renovation work was invested in the transformation of a parking lot into a city park. Including elements such as a clock, type of tree imported from Italy, and Spartanburg County medallion map made the ten year venture a labor of love.
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36207
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Wattle fences and wickets were features of historic gardens, but they can be useful to modern tillers of the soil. Traditional wattle fences and wickets were made from willow and beech. However, the author noted honeysuckle and grape vines, as well as pruned limbs and branches, can be utilized. To further encourage usage, she asserted the easy construction of a wattle fence or wicket, as well as their decorative potential.
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Carolina Gardener
(NoCar SB 453.2 N8 C37), Vol. 29 Issue 6, July/August 2017,
p34-36
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27280
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For over twenty years, Chris and Marty McCurry have been fashioning salvaged tree bark into decorative wall coverings. Based in Spruce Pine, the Highland Craftsmen Inc. collects bark from trees harvested by Southern Appalachian logging companies and creates something new out of it.
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The Laurel of Asheville
(NoCar F 264 .A8 L28), Vol. 13 Issue 10, October 2016,
p40, il, por
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17365
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Fair recommends tress to plant for the mountains, Piedmont, midlands, and coast. The list is not exhaustive and the author chooses trees that she knows are successful in these areas--drought tolerant, excellent bloom or fall color, and do well in most soils.
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Carolina Gardener
(NoCar SB 453.2 N8 C37), Vol. 24 Issue 7, Sept 2012,
p16-19, il
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9.Branching Out: Sustainability Series Broadens by Mosher, Katie Coastwatch Vol. Issue , Spring 2011
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16871
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Coastal trees not only provide welcome shade to residents and visitors, but they also offer water- and air-quality benefits. This ongoing Sustainability Series includes a section on trees and plants and their benefits to the community.
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36499
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Through an analysis of the ways South Georgia turpentiners use the past and tradition to actively express feelings in the present, the author demonstrates how rhetoric is employed in folk expression to both combat exoteric forces and express variable interpretations of the past and reveal in-group factionalism with concern to memory.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 53 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2006,
p18-35
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25280
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Trees do more for the environment than most people think about. Without them, billions of dollars more would be needed to manage storm water alone. Trees are essentially the backbone of a healthy environment.
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35800
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Faulkner revealed sources for the team names of several well-known colleges across the US. Included were state bird (University of Delaware Blue Hens), a Civil War regimen (Kansas State Jayhawkers), a type of tree (Ohio State Buckeyes), and Native American tribes (Miami University Redskins). The one she discussed the most, though, was the Carolina Tar Heels, offering three explanations for a team name that has also become a nickname for North Carolina.
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35690
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Wood was espoused as a viable alternative heat source and solution for the energy crisis. As proof that wood was a cut above the rest economically, the author included examples of the best types, such as ash, beech, and dogwood, and the only necessary equipment, a chain saw and axe.
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24574
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The toothache tree is a species of prickly ash, Zanthoxylum americanum, that indigenous groups in North America used to cure toothaches. They chewed the bark and leaves from this tree to relieve pain.
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24591
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Colonel Thomas Bloodworth discovered a hollowed out Cyprus tree that he then used to harass the British who had occupied Wilmington during the American Revolutionary War.
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