A Wandering Botanist

We took a winter escape. To San Diego, California, in January. I knew it could be warm there, but it wasn't. Heavy rain had just swept i...

 This is the Buddha's hand citron: Buddha's hand citron, Citron medica var. sarcodactylis It rarely appears in North American marke...

This is a mint  henbit, Lamium amplexicaule this is a mint coleus, genus Coleus and this is a mint scarlet beebalm, Monarda didyma This is a...

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...