Poplar is ideal for outdoor fire pits or indoor wood stoves during the spring and fall months. Roasting marshmallows over the flames of a wood-burning fire pit while sipping hot chocolate and chatting ...

Poplar firewood, while not as valued as locust or hickory, dries fast, burns hot and is often used as “shoulder wood” for the cool-but-not-frigid months on either end of winter. Poplar flowers high up ...