It’s officially football season now that the Buckeyes have played their first games of the season. It’s also the season when Buckeye fans can plant their own source of buckeyes — a buckeye tree. Even if you don’t root for the Scarlet and Gray on the football field, you may want to add some Ohio lore to your landscape, as the buckeye has been the state tree of Ohio since 1953, when it was so-named to commemorate the 150th anniversary of statehood. The buckeye tree’s virtues extend beyond state pride and gridiron greatness with its greenish-yellow spring flowers, pumpkin-orange leaves in autumn, and eventually buckets of those shiny brown Buckeye nuts. The nuts are toxic and can’t be eaten but Scarlet and Gray fans find many uses for them, particularly during football season. More:Gardening: Planting veggies in August? Of course! Cool-season crops are often sweeter The Ohio buckeye (Aesculus glabra) is native to Ohio…
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