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Mother Nature’s Garden: Do your plants resupinate?
Plants do amazing things. Vines can twine in either counterclockwise or clockwise directions. Our native wisteria twines counterclockwise,…
July 6, 2024
Lifestyles
Ferns: Old friends and new ones
I went to art class last week obsessing about woodcocks and how to draw their intricately mottled feathers.…
May 8, 2024
Lifestyles
Mother Nature’s Garden: Praying to the plants
Every spring I make the rounds of local state parks so that I can photograph both ephemerals and…
May 3, 2024
Lifestyles
Mother Nature’s Garden: Identifying and documenting plants
One of the joys of living in the country is roaming about looking for interesting plants and then…
April 26, 2024
Lifestyles
Mother Nature’s Garden: February is an in-between month
February is an in-between month for wildflower enthusiasts. It’s still winter, but there are glimmerings of life in…
February 23, 2024
Lifestyles
Mother Nature’s Column: Stillness and quiet
For my family, the period from Halloween until the end of the year can be a wild, crazy,…
January 21, 2024
Lifestyles
Mother Nature’s Garden: The importance of trees
When we moved into our current home 35 years ago, our street was lined with dogwoods, and nearly…
January 1, 2024
Lifestyles
Mother Nature’s Garden: The Hardy Citrus
Several times this past summer, strangers stopped me to ask about an odd plant they’d seen off Milnwood…
November 2, 2023
Lifestyles
Mother Nature’s Garden: The Chinese Yam: Friend or Foe?
There are two kinds of alleys in my hometown: The neat, tidy ones with pavement and carefully trimmed…
October 6, 2023
Lifestyles
Mother Nature’s Garden: Honeyvine: Friend or Foe
Several days ago, I took a very early morning walk through my neighborhood because I was hoping to…
September 2, 2023
Lifestyles
Mother Nature’s Garden: Who was Bouncing Bet
Who was Bouncing Bet and what was she doing? And how did black-eyed Susan get her name? The…
August 20, 2023
Lifestyles
Mother Nature’s Garden: Talking about some ‘unloved’ wildflowers
Every year people get super excited when the first Virginia bluebells appear. And when the pink lady’s slippers…
July 7, 2023
Lifestyles
Mother Nature’s Garden: Let’s talk about serendipity & cream violet
There’s a certain amount of serendipity involved in taking people to see wildflowers. You just never know whether…
June 23, 2023
Lifestyles
Mother Nature’s Garden: The amazing things that plants do
While plants don’t move around like animals, that doesn’t mean they’re incapable of reacting to their environment. For…
May 6, 2023
Lifestyles
Mother’s Nature Garden: In search of Twinleaf
The earliest spring ephemerals have finished blooming, but there’s still time to see twinleaf (Jeffersonia diphylla.) Several years…
April 22, 2023
Lifestyles
Mother Nature’s Garden: The Skunk Cabbages are back
“If you are afflicted with melancholy at this season, go to the swamp and see the brave spear…
February 25, 2023
Lifestyles
Mother Nature’s Garden: What makes a plant native?
“Ditch lilies are native. I know they are; I saw it on the internet!” “Dandelions must be native.…
February 12, 2023
Lifestyles
Mother Nature’s Garden: A much needed hike and old friends
It’s Boxing Day, and life has mostly returned to normal here at Mother Nature’s Garden. The dogs are…
January 14, 2023
Lifestyles
Mother Nature’s Garden — Japanese Knotweed: A seriously tough plant
Since the late 15th century, we humans have moved around 13,000 species of plants from their native habitats…
December 2, 2022
Lifestyles
Mother Natures Garden — Goldenrods: Tenacious and beautiful
“You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing…
November 12, 2022
Lifestyles
Mother Natures Garden — Turtleheads: Flowers with an interesting shape
Even though the days are still warm, there’s a chill in the early morning and late afternoon air.…
October 14, 2022
Lifestyles
Pickleweed: A great natural condiment
Way back pre-pandemic, when travel was easy, I spent some time in Cornwall with friends. It was a…
September 10, 2022
Lifestyles
Common grass pink: An interesting native orchid
We tend to think of orchids as fragile, delicate plants requiring pampering, but they are extremely resilient and…
August 5, 2022
Lifestyles
Mother Nature’s Garden — Magnolias bloom offering fragrant pleasure
It’s magnolia time! The sweetbay magnolias have finished blooming in the wet lowlands along the High Bridge Trail,…
July 15, 2022
Lifestyles
Mother Natures Garden — Hexastylis: A plant with a steep learning curve
For years I’ve found heartleaf (Hexastylis spp.) all over Cumberland, Appomattox, Powhatan, and Prince Edward Counties. There are…
June 5, 2022
Lifestyles
Fireworks in the woods
One of my favorite spring ephemerals, the eastern shooting star (Primula meadia), has a variety of common names…
May 8, 2022
Lifestyles
Wildflower Symposium celebrates spring
Spring is definitely here. The days are longer, the temperatures are warmer, and there are blooms appearing everywhere.…
April 2, 2022
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