Sunday, May 28, 2017

Plant Story -- Artemisia ludoviciana, silver wormwood, Louisiana sagewort

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Pretty, eh? Artemisia ludoviciana is a  common grassland plant, native across the central and western United States, now found in most ...
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Sunday, May 21, 2017

Dye Plants: "That's A Good Dye Plant"

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On a plant walk recently, people noticed that I commented that various of the plants we saw were good dye plants. Sometimes I have little el...
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Sunday, May 14, 2017

Visiting Argentina--Corrientes in the Northeast

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Along the Parana River, Corrientes Argentina My slides remind me of past adventures. Beginning in the late 1980s I collaborated with Gui...
Sunday, May 7, 2017

Plant Story--The Dramatic Heliconias

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Heliconias, Bali I traveled halfway around the world, to tropical Asia, and the iconic plant I saw everywhere is one I associate with th...
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Sunday, April 30, 2017

Visiting Northern Japan--Sakura (Cherry Blossoms)

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Cherry blossoms, Tendo City, Japan Japan is famous for celebrating spring with cherry blossoms. In mid April we flew from Colorado where...
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Sunday, April 23, 2017

Tulips and the Tulip Bubble Part 2

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This is part two of a pair of postsabout the Tulip Bubble, aka tulipomania, when in the 1630s in Holland the price of a tulip bulb inflated ...
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Sunday, April 16, 2017

Tulips and the Tulip Bubble Part 1

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Tulips are blooming. They're a riot of color that make people smile. Yet economists make a Bad Example of tulips. Tulips created ...
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