A Wandering Botanist

My husband won't eat green beans. It is the one vegetable he totally rejects. But last summer I grew runner beans. Not as food, but beca...

Its a new year and we pause to look both forward and back.  What if, in the new year, you made a plant Life List? Bird watchers keep Life Li...

There's a long tradition of putting oranges into Christmas stockings. Oranges are so readily available today that that seems a little od...

 Nasturtiums are easily-recognized garden flowers. They have big orange (or red or yellow) flowers with a long spur and interesting round le...

Burdocks are plants you recognize for their seed pods or leaves. Oh, they have pretty enough pink-purple flowers, much like thistles flowers...

 In October we visited Washington D.C. I remember my first visit in 1969. I was a college graduate form Ohio. I had seen New York City, a bi...

Oleander, Nerium oleander ( dogbane family, Apocynaceae) has for years been, for me, an example of how comfortably we live with poisonous pl...