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Rhodie trip
July 05, 2020 - By tradition, the wild rhododendrons should be just about at peak, and that, by a corollary tradition, should prompt a r...
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Garden bliss
April 16, 2020 - I have to stop feeling so darned guilty all the time: I had to work on my syndicated column all day, and when I did have...
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Out of sync
May 11, 2019 - There may well be no prettier May blossom than the tube-lobed flower of the Wild Columbine. And, for the Ruby-throated H...
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Apple blossom time
May 10, 2019 - It was an unusually dreary day, with rain and cold and the surprising need to keep the woodstove going. I walked a bit a...
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Our own crocus flower show
March 18, 2019 - A mere day or two after I spotted the first Crocus blooms at a well-situated, south-facing, heat-absorbing-and-releasing...
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Microclimate
March 15, 2019 - Before I kvell about this year's grand opening of the first crocus, I need to add a little truth in advertising. First,...
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Debut in yellow
February 26, 2019 - It doesn't take long. As I noted yesterday, Winter Aconite is always in a hurry, and a mere day after I spotted the firs...
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Rose finale
November 11, 2018 - It's been almost unnaturally warm, but the temperatures have begun sliding in the opposite direction, so when I spotted...
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The last anemone
November 05, 2018 - The day after Halloween, November greeted me with warmth and a stunning flower that crowned a tall and, truth be told, p...
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The pollinators arrive
March 12, 2018 - In a recent scientific paper I scanned, the headline touted members of the housefly congregation as the dominant pollina...
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Unexpected gold
November 20, 2017 - As I was walking today on my usual rounds... and slightly increasing my distance to about a mile... I did think to do so...
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Searching low and high
May 09, 2017 - It's May, and, of course, time for some of the month's namesake blossoms. The beginnings of the blooms working their way...
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Blossom in miniature
March 02, 2017 - I've started to rigorously put the newest addition to the photographic toolkit—a refurbished 85mm Nikkor micro lens—thro...
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Witch and spider
October 13, 2016 - Well in advance of Halloween, the witches are out... but seeing them is hardly cause for alarm. Concern, perhaps, since...
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A different "marigold"
September 21, 2016 - The gorgeous red Cardinal Flowers—the glory of August—may have called it a season, but the edges of the fresh-water wetl...
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Rose in the rain
July 29, 2016 - We actually, finally, blessedly, got a little bit of rain overnight, and while it was hardly the deluge that was predict...
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Wet foot rose
July 13, 2016 - One of the great joys of hiking through and by wetlands is that you never know what you'll find... even if you wade in w...
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Unbuttoned
July 12, 2016 - Buttonbush is one of the signature flowers of the mid-July wetlands, and on a recent bike ride past a stand of these shr...
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Maple blossom time
March 19, 2016 - Most of today was given over to writing projects and planning for renovations on the home front, but on a gray and chill...
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Prim and rosy
February 27, 2016 - The day started out chilly, with temperatures in the low teens, and I feared that all of those early blossoms would be t...
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Flower power
February 07, 2016 - The sun came out and the weather warmed enough so that Lexi's snow turned to slush and even, in the shade-free spots, di...
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For the record
February 04, 2016 - It's been raining most of today, and it's been April warm with, I felt, the prospect of frogs. Hearing batrachian quacks...
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The gamblers
January 13, 2016 - There have been blossoms on the hellebores, open flowers on the periwinkles and the dandelions, and beautiful lettuce—th...
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Almost a wrap
December 18, 2015 - The hardy cyclamens in our garden have certainly lived up to their name. While it's certainly been way warmer than norma...
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Unusually floriferous
October 21, 2015 - With the leaves beginning to fall in droves, I'm now gaining the ability to see things I've missed. Nests, of course—bot...
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Orchid helix
August 01, 2015 - Whenever the weather is agreeable, my reward for dumping the recyclables and the genuine trash—always, I'm happy to say,...
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Uneaten lily
July 25, 2015 - The day lilies have been blooming in gardens and along the roadsides since the beginning of the month, but the native wi...
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Fleeting flowers
July 01, 2015 - A few weeks ago, I noticed that the collection of Prickly Pear cacti that filled my up-the-road neighbor's flower bed by...
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A red maple gift
April 21, 2015 - I've had my eye on the Red Maples, a.k.a., the Swamp Maples, for a couple of weeks now, and finally, my persistent in ob...
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No foolin'
April 01, 2015 - The destruction down the road will result in lots of collateral damage, but one thing I'm trying to minimize is the impa...
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Debu-aconite
March 24, 2015 - The tree murderers arrived this afternoon to begin the destruction of the doomed woodlot across the street, but they did...
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Snow on cyclamens
November 28, 2014 - It got grayer and colder yesterday as we headed towards dusk, and it started raining again. As we were finishing dessert...
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The last of the garden flowers
October 22, 2014 - Over the years, I tried growing plants touted as Hardy Cyclamens a number of times, and every time, they failed to meet...
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