A Wandering Botanist

Gardens and yards are changing. People are reducing their use of herbicides and pesticides. Planting more water-wise plants. Adding natives....

I visited the cloud forest of Ecuador in May. As mountains everywhere rise, they block the movement of clouds. Day after day, clouds full of...

Blooming near you in North America, generally ignored, is black medic, Medicago lupulina (pea family, Fabaceae). This is a little invader fr...

 Flies don't get much respect, we think of them mainly as pests. However, they are important pollinators.

Botanic gardens have many functions: as places to grow and protect rare plants, as places to show diverse plants to the public, as places to...

This post is about a native orchid, the scentbottle, Plantanthera dilatata (orchid family, Orchidaceae). scentbottle orchid,  Plantanthera d...

The bright yellow flowerhead nodded in the breeze, peeking out among a variety of leaves. Look! A coreopsis! tickseed, Coreopsis grandiflora...