A Wandering Botanist

The Wumen Bridge in Suzhou, China, crosses the Grand Canal and has done so for a thousand years. Chinese emperors built the Grand Canal f...

Felix Luna in Japan Ten years ago I'd been traveling extensively for about three years and realized a neck pillow would improve the ...

Garden asparagus ( Asparagus officinalis , asparagus family, Asparagaceae) has been cultivated since Roman times (see last week's pos...

Asparagus is an odd vegetable. We eat just the new shoots. Not leaves, not roots, not fruit. It is also an old vegetable, eaten in the Euro...

China's rivers run west to east, so moving goods from the south to the north and vice versa was difficult before trains and highways...

little bluestem in the prairie Talk about being ignored! Little bluestem ( Schizachyrium scoparium , grass family, Poaceae) is one of th...

Rocky Mountain columbine, Aquilegia coerulea I'm celebrating spring, despite recurring cold rainy days. Last week I posted pictures ...