Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Any port in a storm

On the side of the Barge Music barge, a friendly old hull, a tenacious plant. Soil, bah, who needs it? Although this may have reached the limit of it’s improbability. Methinks it’s our old friend Paulownia tomentosa, the weed that becomes a tree.

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  1. Three Heart-Shaped Leaves « Backyard and Beyond

    […] flat leafstalk and the warty glands at base of leaf. Our old friend Paulownia, the tree that grows anywhere, and when it does, its early-growth leaves are enormous. My boot here is for scale, and not […]

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