Drought activity, and then some welcome rain

Jennifer Mason Guest Columnist Well, the drought has been something to weather, using my hopeful past tense and pun intended. My mostly native plants seem to have shown few signs of stress, except for my bull bay magnolias. They thrive in a wetter environment than where they currently find themselves. I have two volunteers that are growing in my dry, sandhill woods. One is quite tall. The birds ate the red arils found in the cones in the fall from down by my creek, which is a good ways away a