Sunday, May 27, 2018

Plant Story--Evening Primroses, Names and Relations

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Evening primroses were one of the first midwestern wildflowers I learned. Partly because they are so spectacular Missouri eveing primrose...
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Sunday, May 20, 2018

Visiting Oahu--Wahiawa Botanical Garden, Tropical at 1000'

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In the center of the island of Oahu is the Wahiawa Botanical Garden. Part of the Honolulu Botanical Gardens system, it is at about 1000...
Sunday, May 13, 2018

Plant Story--Daylilies, From Asia, Beautiful and Not Lilies

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Everyone always has grown daylilies and their story is well-known. It seemed. When I looked carefully, I totally rewrote this blog post...
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Sunday, May 6, 2018

Visiting Hawaii--HIstoric Foster Botanical Garden

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I recently took an off-season holiday in Honolulu, Hawaii. Inevitably, my steps took me to botanic gardens. One of Honolulu’s highlights ...
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Sunday, April 29, 2018

Visiting Northern Colorado--Early Spring Wildflowers

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Plants seen along the Devil's Backbone Trail, Loveland, Colorado This year, spring in northern Colorado has been punctuated with col...
Sunday, April 22, 2018

Cosmopolitan Weeds--Friends of the Botanical Traveler

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Victoria, Australia Thousands of miles from home, surrounded by plants strange to me, I am delighted to see a plant I know.   Look, a da...
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Sunday, April 15, 2018

Visiting Costa Rica--Very Seasonal Guanacaste Province

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Costa Rica has been a destination for ecologists since at least the 1970s, well before it had ecotourism infrastructure--one of its streng...
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