I love this time of year for the amazing new growth and early flowers here […]
Category: Botany
Spring Gold Part 2
While in Victoria this week I drove to the top of Mount Douglas to search […]
Spring Gold
The problem with common names of plants is that sometimes two very different looking plants […]
A Lesson in Lichens
Quite often it is the small things that are missed when one is walking with […]
Signs of Spring – Salmonberry and Red-flowering Currant in Bloom
There are several signs of spring that I watch for as February rolls into March […]
Simply Saguaro – Arizona SkyWatch #7
It’s a dark, wet, rainy night here on Vancouver Island so my thoughts turn southward […]
Tastes Like Licorice
One of the Pacific Northwest ferns to look for on these dreary winter days is […]
A Pleasing Peltigera
A lesson in how to identify a Peltigera, learned in retrospect. When I saw this […]
Cattails
One of the things that impressed me at Buttertubs Marsh last week was the endless […]