Sunday, July 20, 2025

Plant Story--Coreopsis, Pretty Tickseeds

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The bright yellow flowerhead nodded in the breeze, peeking out among a variety of leaves. Look! A coreopsis! tickseed, Coreopsis grandiflora...
Sunday, July 13, 2025

Rocky Mountain Wildflowers of July

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It was a shady walk in the Colorado mountains at about 7000' elevation. Lots of wildflowers bloomed along the path.  sidebells penstemon...
Sunday, July 6, 2025

Travel--Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Minneapolis-St. Paul

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 I visited the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Chaska MN ( website ), at the end of April. I had heard about it for years and I had traveled ...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

The Scandalous Orange Petunia, Glowing Petunias, and Black Petunias

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Petunias Engineered. Petunia--the common one is  Petunia  x  atkinsiana-- are easy to grow. Petunias are fast-growing, hardy, diploid plants...
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Sunday, June 22, 2025

Plant Story--Colorful Petunias for Summer Gardens

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Petunias are everywhere: in summer street plantings, in decorative pots, in hanging baskets. And yet, petunias are anonymous. Poor petunia, ...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

Flowers of Early June

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My blog for this week, on petunias ( Petunia ), is running way behind. So, how about a post celebrating  early summer flowers?  Blanket flow...
Monday, June 9, 2025

Ecuador: The Galapagos II. Plants

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On my recent trip to the Galapagos I joined park rangers on hikes, and usually I was a laggard. I kept  stopping to see the plants. The rest...
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