From personal pergolas to dining tables and commissioned benches, Harold Greene has built a life in custom, handmade ...

Scott Waters’ Knox Theatre table won the “Best of the Wood Challenge” award. The table includes authentic tickets inlaid on ...

Unraveling the Mystery of the Osage Orange On March 12, 2025, tree enthusiasts, history buffs, and nature lovers will have the opportunity to dive into the intriguing story of the Osage orange tree ...

The Osage orange tree, native to Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, was once prized for its hardy wood and thorny branches, but its supposed ability to repel insects and spiders has been debunked by ...

The Osage Orange tree produces a unique fruit known as the hedge apple, which, although inedible, is popular for fall decorating. The tree's wood has been used for fence posts for decades.

The Osage Nation once inhabited the Ohio River Valley, well over two thousand years before our time here. They prized the hardness of the tree's orange wood and made their spears and arrows out of it.

The yellow wood of the Osage orange is hard, strong and durable. It can be worked while it is green, but once it dries it is extremely hard.

A photo op with a suburban pair of bald eagles and a question on Osage orange at Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie are among the notes from around Chicago outdoors and beyond.

The strange fruit of the Osage orange tree has several uses. Discover if hedge apples can keep pests away from your home.