Q:The black walnut tree in my yard gives off nice shade. It is planted close to the house and this last year it did not drop any walnuts. Usually, I pay the neighborhood kids to pick up the nuts ...

The trees bloom yellow in the spring. Their walnuts, harvested in early fall, are a food source for the Indigenous Chumash and Tongva peoples, and the husks are used both medicinally and as dyes.

The black walnut tree is one of the last trees in Southeast Missouri to grow leaves in spring and one of the first to drop its leaves in autumn. Even so, it makes a wonderful shade tree during the ...

Support for the black walnut as the MO symbol grew after TikTok user Justin Davies made a case for it while making a map of the U.S. with wood from state trees.

Black walnut trees are very susceptible to the disease, but English walnut trees are only slightly susceptible. The disease is spread by a small beetle called the walnut twig beetle.

Many plants will not grow well within 50 feet of black walnut because of the chemical the tree releases into the soil. Fortunately, redbud does just fine under the canopy of walnuts.

Q: I just put in an all-native garden this spring, and it is getting a lot of leaves falling from trees near it. Unfortunately, most of the trees are black walnuts. Due to the juglone these trees ...

Q: About 12 years ago we moved to a property here in Bethlehem that has an old farmers windbreak. This windbreak consists of mostly sassafras trees and wild cherry trees. There were a few black wal… ...