Juglans nigra prophouse-winter-2027 Bees and other pollinators work

Bees and other pollinators work the flowers through the long season

The tung oil tree is a handsome medium-sized deciduous tree

Mass several for a rhythm of vertical bloom stalks

held on dark burgundy stems

coral-red berries that hold through winter against the evergreen foliage

Juglans nigra prophouse-winter-2027 Bees and other pollinators workJuglans nigra, the eastern black walnut, is one of the great trees of eastern North America, a towering, long lived hardwood native from the Appalachians and Midwest to the Mississippi Valley, most at home in deep, rich, moist but well drained soils along river bottoms and fertile uplands. Large pinnate leaves cast a broad, airy shade in summer, leaf out late in spring, and drop early in fall to a soft gold, making way for the tree's most famous gift,