A Wandering Botanist

blanket flower, growing wild; aren't our natives spectacular! Don't project your garden assumptions on me! Gardening is, of course,...

In the mountains north of Taos, New Mexico, we hiked the Nordski Trail. It is a trail for cross country/Nordic skiers, including beginners, ...

This post is about an important, useful plant that people walk by without noticing. Or, since it is mostly stem, look right through. A nativ...

I went on a week's vacation to northern New Mexico in mid-July. We hiked and went to botanic gardens, but the best moment of wildflower ...

Yucca and yuca are different plants. Both are important plants, but they don't grow in the Eastern U.S., rarely show up in grocery store...

Venturing from my Colorado home into the tropics, practically all of the plants change. It has always worked best for me to learn the plant ...

I walked in the forest of the hills above Boulder Colorado in mid-June.