A Wandering Botanist

Let us talk about lettuce. garden lettuce, Lactuca sativa , in a garden Lettuce is easily overlooked and yet it is one of the top ten vegeta...

The common name hellebore is confusing because three quite different plants are called hellebore or false hellebore. They're in the gene...

I attended Landscaping with Colorado Native Plants conference in February. I came away very conscious of all the differences in gardening be...

Hellebores, also called the Lenten roses and Christmas roses, Helleborus species, are early spring garden flowers.  Lenten rose, Helleborus

Scarlet globemallow, Sphaeralcea coccinea , is a small native mallow of disturbed sites of the western half of the United States and Canada....

I started this blog in February 2013. I have uploaded a post every week since then, 521 posts. The actual total is 532, because once in a wh...

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...