A Wandering Botanist

Buchloë dactyloides  or  Bouteloua dactyloides ??? Botanists routinely assert that each plant has only one scientific name. When you lo...

View of Tomales Bay out the window The word garden lured us to stay at a bed and breakfast in Inverness, California. The Inverness Secr...

old fustic, dyer's mulberry, Maclura tinctoria Old fustic, also called dyer's mulberry, was one of the most important yellow dye...

looking back at the beach, Costa Rica My Betchart / Lindblad expedition last month took me to Costa Rica (see earlier post ). We sail...

Walking sticks from cabbage!  What you see in the video is a stick made from Brussels sprouts.  This post is about that project and the re...

Ixora I recently took a week’s trip through the Panama Canal and up the Pacific Coast to Costa Rica.  It was lovely. Traveling in a...

bush morning glory Ipomoea leptophylla O ne reason I became a plant ecologist was that my ecology class professor at University of Mic...