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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, ...
Plants do amazing things. Vines can twine in either counterclockwise or clockwise directions. Our native wisteria twines counterclockwise, ...
I went to art class last week obsessing about woodcocks and how to draw their intricately mottled feathers. ...
Every spring I make the rounds of local state parks so that I can photograph both ephemerals and ...
One of the joys of living in the country is roaming about looking for interesting plants and then ...
February is an in-between month for wildflower enthusiasts. It’s still winter, but there are glimmerings of life in ...
For my family, the period from Halloween until the end of the year can be a wild, crazy, ...
When we moved into our current home 35 years ago, our street was lined with dogwoods, and nearly ...
Several times this past summer, strangers stopped me to ask about an odd plant they’d seen off Milnwood ...
There are two kinds of alleys in my hometown: The neat, tidy ones with pavement and carefully trimmed ...
Several days ago, I took a very early morning walk through my neighborhood because I was hoping to ...
Who was Bouncing Bet and what was she doing? And how did black-eyed Susan get her name? The ...
Every year people get super excited when the first Virginia bluebells appear. And when the pink lady’s slippers ...
There’s a certain amount of serendipity involved in taking people to see wildflowers. You just never know whether ...
While plants don’t move around like animals, that doesn’t mean they’re incapable of reacting to their environment. For ...
The earliest spring ephemerals have finished blooming, but there’s still time to see twinleaf (Jeffersonia diphylla.) Several years ...
“If you are afflicted with melancholy at this season, go to the swamp and see the brave spear ...
“Ditch lilies are native. I know they are; I saw it on the internet!” “Dandelions must be native. ...
It’s Boxing Day, and life has mostly returned to normal here at Mother Nature’s Garden. The dogs are ...
Since the late 15th century, we humans have moved around 13,000 species of plants from their native habitats ...
“You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing ...
Even though the days are still warm, there’s a chill in the early morning and late afternoon air. ...
Way back pre-pandemic, when travel was easy, I spent some time in Cornwall with friends. It was a ...
We tend to think of orchids as fragile, delicate plants requiring pampering, but they are extremely resilient and ...
It’s magnolia time! The sweetbay magnolias have finished blooming in the wet lowlands along the High Bridge Trail, ...
For years I’ve found heartleaf (Hexastylis spp.) all over Cumberland, Appomattox, Powhatan, and Prince Edward Counties. There are ...
One of my favorite spring ephemerals, the eastern shooting star (Primula meadia), has a variety of common names ...
Spring is definitely here. The days are longer, the temperatures are warmer, and there are blooms appearing everywhere. ...
The Washington Capitals’ Alexander Ovechkin and the Columbus Blue Jackets’ Sean Monahan will be two of the top…
Connor McMichael and the Washington Capitals will play on Thursday at 7:00 PM ET, versus the Columbus Blue…
Aliaksei Protas and the Washington Capitals face the Columbus Blue Jackets on Thursday at 7:00 PM ET, at…
Dylan Strome will be in action when the Washington Capitals and Columbus Blue Jackets face off at Nationwide…
Pierre-Luc Dubois and the Washington Capitals will play on Thursday at 7:00 PM ET, facing the Columbus Blue…