A Wandering Botanist

The garden flowers of the central U.S. are mostly not native. The garden store was robbed:  it was a violet crime. sweet violet, Viola ...

It's a vegetable dog!  In early September I took a tour of Philadelphia featuring gardens (Road Scholar link ). Here is a look at L...

I don't see a way to upload a photograph into Comments, so I will respond here to a question on the red cabbage dyed cloth. The origin...

Tomatoes are everyday foods in the United States. In fact, we often count on them to complete a salad. Years ago, on a business flight, I sa...

Tomatodirt.com asks: What is the difference between knowledge and wisdom? >Knowledge is knowing that tomatoes are fruits. Wisdom is...

Gaillardia , probably the hybrid I wrote about growing locally-native wildflowers in the Denver Post last week, but provided no sourc...

What is that little plant? Across most of the United States you can find it growing on sandy, disturbed sites.  It is Oenothera suff...