A Wandering Botanist

early summer,  southern Finland It is early spring here on the Front Range of Colorado: warm days interspersed with snow showers. The ...

Bananas! They dominate the world fresh fruit trade. Banana plants cannot survive a touch of frost, and yet banana fruits are found in m...

What plant should no garden be without? Banana plants, through the window of a Chinese garden A banana plant. For a traditional Chine...

The karst hills of southern China have such an odd shape, it is hard to believe they are real. But they are. Really. I recommend yo...

Today, February 4, 2016, is the third anniversary of this blog. It amazes--and delights--me that I've been posting weekly for 3 years...

New Zealand! An intriguing destination, far south of the Equator, across the Pacific Ocean, and yet reputedly very British. We traveled...

Just like there's no way to eliminate Monday--in the sense that there will always be a first day of the work week, no matter what we cal...