Few plants can be considered as quintessentially Southern as the magnolia. Their big, waxy, glossy leaves juxtaposed with heady, fragrant flowers are familiar sights to Southerners. They bloom in a ...
There are about 60,000 species of trees on Earth, and about 1 in 3 is at risk of extinction, according to a 2021 report from Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Among them: the Magnolia ...
Jesse Bellemare and John Berryhill work their way down a wooded path at Smith College’s Ada and Archibald MacLeish Field Station. It’s the kind of warm and cloudy October day when late-fall colors ...
John Berryhill, director of the Botanic Garden of Smith College, checks on one of the mountain magnolias planted at MacLeish Field Station in Whately as part of a project to catalog the plant’s ...
Unseasonably mild weather in late winter is bad news for a spring-flowering magnolia, as it coaxes it to open its blossoms too early. If it is followed by an arctic blast of cold air, the glorious ...
The interim director of Smith College's Botanic Garden, John Berryhill (left) stands beside associate professor of biology Jesse Bellemare at a test plot where they are growing a native Appalachian ...
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