Sunday, December 27, 2015

Visiting Alberta--Cattail Marshes and Flyways

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Big Lake, Alberta Winter is settling in in Colorado. Some of our Canada geese have gone south, but others still sweep by overhead. On ...
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Sunday, December 20, 2015

Plant Story--Peas, Pisum sativum

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The three faces of peas--fresh peas, dried peas, and edible-pod peas--are different enough that it is hard remembering they are all th...
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Saturday, December 12, 2015

Plant Story--The Beautiful, Iconic Poinsettia

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Happy Poinsettia Day! poinsettia, E uphorbia pulcherrima December 12 is Poinsettia Day. It is the day Joel Roberts Poinsett, from whom ...
Sunday, December 6, 2015

Plant Ecology--Tumbleweeds, the Lifestyle

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young tumbleweed In the dry fall of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, the tumbleweeds let go and roll around.  Drifts on fences fr...
Sunday, November 29, 2015

The Range of Prairie Plants--Natives of Edmonton, Alberta

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blanket flower Gaillardia aristida "I know that plant!" I was 1200 miles almost due north of home, in Edmonton, Alberta at a ...
Sunday, November 22, 2015

Visiting the Southern Hemisphere--Searching for the Southern Cross

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Don’t you hang upside down in the Southern Hemisphere?  It sounds strange to ask that, but since ancient Greece, it has been a recurring ...
Sunday, November 15, 2015

Plant Wonders--10 Tropical Plants Not to Miss

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Looking into the Costa Rican rainforest Ew! The tropics! Deadly snakes and poisonous plants! I tip-toed through the vegetation as if ev...