A Wandering Botanist: Now We Are Six! Blog Anniversary.

Sunday, February 10, 2019

Now We Are Six! Blog Anniversary.

water hyacinth (Eichronia crassipes)

"Now We Are Six!" The title is from the Winnie the Pooh series, a phrase that has been with me since early childhood. Today it applies to this blog. Six years! Three hundred twenty two published posts. I had no idea what I was starting, back in February 2013.

Sometimes I have a hard time coming up with an idea; sometimes I am trying to decide which post to upload first.

I have topics I want to write about but don't have the pictures: seeds and fruits, peanut plants, four o'clocks...in midwinter, it is hard to correct that.

It is great fun, this blog. It keeps me researching to get the information right. I have to keep up with stuff I would have let slide, in particular the changes in plant names. And I find myself buying books on topics I had not previously thought about, eastern North American wildflowers, ground covers, and Colonial-era gardeners, for example. Lately I've been studying Spanish because the stories of many North American plants extend into Latin America and I don't want to understand just part of the story before I retell it. Thus, this is a diverse and entertaining project!

Aztec ceremonies used marigold (Tagetes)

Here are links to some of the oldest posts if you missed them:

Plant Confusions: Garden Sage and Sagebrush are Different: link
One is related to mints, the other to sunflowers