Colonial Williamsburg garden historian Wesley Greene strips the bark from a locust log with a draw knife. The log will be used as garden-bed edging in the town. Colonial Williamsburg garden historian ...

Honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) is a deciduous and thorny legume tree that is aggressive and fast-growing. The tree’s bark is grayish-brown and furrowed with long, scaly ridges. Honey locusts ...

Black locust wood posts lasted four decades in vineyards with little decay, highlighting the durability of this naturally rot ...

Q: We are curious about the locust trees. They typically are one of the last trees to get leaves in spring and usually begin losing their leaves in mid-August. This year, they were a little later ...

The trees you now see throughout the county with the showy white flowers are probably black locust trees. Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia) is a medium-sized tree with a single small leaf and thorns ...

Q: A couple of doors down from our home there is a large, round-headed shaped tree in the yard that has fairly large clusters of white blooms. Sort of shaped like a cluster of grapes. When we asked ...

I continue our look at some of the rather common, yet often lesser known Indiana trees with the locusts. Now, when the name locust comes up in a conservation, it is usually of some insect. The ...