Sweet gum

Sweet Gum Trees I have talked about sweet gums before in this little blog's short life. I was admiring a large sweet gum on our p...

Those spiny balls, seed pods, dropped by your sweet gum tree can actually be put to good use. This is a guide about uses for sweet gum balls.

The Sweet Gum tree (Liquidambar styraciflua) has many commercial, medicinal, edible and residential uses. In this article I will detail what these uses are, and…

You know, the super magical thing about the internet is that it can make you the bearer of almost instant knowledge on just about anything. This comes in handy when you hang out with kids. The 'aha, I never knew!' moments are exhilarating. For instance, yesterday I finally googled 'tree with spiky balls.' Yeah, I giggled a little inside at the search terms. However, the search is long overdue; we've taken hundreds of walks in our neighborhood and have run into the same patches of 'spiky…

Disclaimer: The instructions I offer here in this post (and in all my posts about herbs and home remedies) are what I use personally at home. Of course the standard disclaimer goes: I am not a doctor and don’t prescribe medicines or herbs, this is just what we have done here for generations with great results. Here […]

Those spiny balls, seed pods, dropped by your sweet gum tree can actually be put to good use. This is a guide about uses for sweet gum balls.

You know, the super magical thing about the internet is that it can make you the bearer of almost instant knowledge on just about anythin...

How to make Christmas ornaments out of sweet gum balls

The Sweet Gum Tree A forty foot tall Sweet Gum tree rises from the northeast corner of my back yard. On this early spring day, the tree is still a skeleton, although leaf buds are just beginning to…

Christmas isn't the only time of year for wreaths. Here, we show you several wreath projects that can be hung during the fall, spring, and summer.