Plant Features: American Holly

American Holly – Ilex opaca: A small to medium sized tree. Leaves alternate, persistant, simple, 2-4 inches longa and 1-2 inches wide. Leaf margin is wavy with stout, stiff, sharp spines. Fruit is a spherical red berrylike drupe about .25 inches in diameter, each containing several 1 seeded nutlets. Bark is Gray and thin with wartlike … Read more

Plant Features: Chinese Privet

Chinese Privet (Ligustrum sinense) is a woody shrub with opposite, simple, entire leaves. About 1 inch in length. Chinese Privet forms a shrub reaching heights of about 15 feet.

Plant Features: Tupelo Gum (Nyssa aquatica)

Tupelo Gum also known as water tupelo, swamp tupelo grow to about 90 feet tall. The bases of Tupelo Gum trees are swollen or flared outward but with out flutes like a cypress tree. This give the tupelo gum tree a wider base which give it more stability in the swamps and lowland forests. The … Read more

Plant Features: Black Gum

Blackgum – Nyssa sylvatica: A medium-sized tree whose branches stand at right angles to the trunk. Leaf: Alternate, simple, pinnately veined, obovate in shape with an entire margin, 3 to 5 inches long. Rarely toothed. Flower: Not showy, green-white in color, appearing with the leaves, hanging in clusters. Fruit: A dark, purplish-blue drupe, 1/2 inch long, … Read more

Plant Features: Persimmon

Fruit is used by foxes, deer, raccons, oppossums, skunks and songbirds. If you find one of these dropping fruit during the hunting season you better hunt that tree.

Plant Features: Cow Oak

Cow oak also commonly called Swamp Chestnut oak is an oak tree with alternate, simple, leaves with a margin large teeth, 4 to 8 inches long, 3 to 5 inches wide, dark green and shiny above, pale and downy below. Cow oaks produce a very large acorn that is 1 to 1 1/2 inches long, … Read more

Plant Features: Pecan

Pecan (Carya Illinoensis) is the best know of all the Hickories. Pecan can be recognized by thier alternate, pinnately compound leaves with 9 to 15 finely serrate leaflets, 12 to 18 inches long. The nuts from a Pecan trees are large oblong, brown, splotched with black, thin shelled nuts, 1 1/2 to 2 inches long. … Read more

Deciding What To Plant!

So you’ve decided you want to plant some deer food plots. But now you are overwhelmed with the great variety of choices you have to make. Biologic says their stuff is best, Tecomante says their seeds are better. You don’t know what to think or who to believe. Well keep reading it’s time to shed … Read more

Clover Planting 101

Clover comes in many varieties and its deer attracting ability, nutritional qualities and its resilience in food plots has made clover one of the favorites of wildlife managers country wide. It does however have another reputation in some circles… And that is for being difficult to grow. Clover is indeed a great forage crop and it … Read more