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“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plan.” —Henry David Thoreau

Everyone knows what a tree looks like, right? But have you ever really seen the delicate flowers of a red maple? The emerging leaves of a tulip poplar? The twigs of a beech? When you look at a tree up close, a whole new world of form and detail emerges—you encounter beauty that you never knew existed, and you begin to appreciate trees in a whole new way. Through its delightful writing and dazzling photographs, Seeing Trees invites you to disco...

Features trees and 'tree places' that illustrate the enormous variety, startling beauty, and fascinating history of Virginia's trees. This book not only features Virginia's largest trees but also some of the state's oldest, including baldcypress trees over 800 years old in Southampton County and red cedars over 450 years old in Giles.

In Earth Works, award-winning columnist Nancy R. Hugo presents amonth-by-month, season-by-season exploration of the pleasures and pains of gardeningin the mid-Atlantic. Readers familiar with her columns in the RichmondTimes-Dispatch and Virginia Wildlife will welcome this collection of her mostpopular essays, written in the characteristic conversational style that has made hera regional favorite. Earth Works has a wealth ofhelpful hints and se...