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Grass fortunes
June 25, 2020 - I have to admit something: this grass, which typically goes by the name Quackgrass, as well as, less commonly, couch gra...
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Magnificent little mimics
May 31, 2020 - In the interests of habitat improvement, I really ought to remove every trace of a long-ago Eurasian immigrant known to...
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May flowers and Mayapples
May 21, 2020 - Barberries have a bad reputation among many botanists, but, it turns out, there are good barberries and those deserving...
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There goes the neighborhood
May 04, 2020 - Everybody has a least favorite plant. For many folks on the botany spectrum, the one they'd most like to see disappear w...
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Supple season
January 02, 2020 - In earlier posts and newspaper columns, I've referred to winter as the "subtle season"—the season during which not a lot...
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Invasive harvest
July 25, 2019 - I know the standard line on invasive species is this: Eliminate Them. Typically, I agree, but then there's the Wineberry...
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Pretty pest
May 03, 2019 - Garlic mustard is actually a rather pretty plant—and a useful one, too, in that, in spring, the leaves, shoots, flowers,...
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Porcelain problem
October 12, 2018 - I had to be in New Haven today, but I had some time and good weather on the way home, so I stopped at one of my favorite...
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Bad beauty
August 22, 2018 - I've been noticing these pretty, purple-flowered bloom spikes lording it over a gravel bar in the middle of a stretch of...
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Old berry friends
July 26, 2018 - I had hoped to take Stasia blueberry-picking at one of several potential terrific places, but the heat, humidity, and bu...
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Post-Epiphany decor
January 16, 2018 - Just about every conservationist will tell you that, in the list of invasive species, Japanese Knotweed, the bamboo-like...
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Unwelcome visitors
November 26, 2016 - A couple of evenings after the guests departed, usually via the kitchen porch door, I walked outside to listen for Barre...
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Color's end
November 21, 2016 - The highlight of any autumn hike is the foliage show, but these days, as fall begins its slow walk towards monochrome, t...
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A good use for invasives
May 18, 2016 - We had the very friendly and exceedingly competent folks from Renewal by Andersen here today to take care of the last th...
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Herbal invader
May 03, 2016 - Among the worst of the worst invasive species, consider the Garlic Mustard. Allaria petiolata is a biennial public enemy...
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New invasion
February 16, 2016 - I have to admit to a certain amount of confusion here, but, then again, I know I'm not alone in being uncertain about th...
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Winged invader
January 13, 2016 - While the local backcountry still exists—I fear the eventual result of the recent sale of nearly 70 beautiful acres of f...
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Grounded
December 15, 2015 - The mists thickened overnight and gave way to a steady, warm rain, and there was even the chance for a thunderstorm or t...
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The first winter moths
November 28, 2015 - The first of the Winter Moths, a viciously invasive species imported from Europe via Canada, have started to appear at t...
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A knotty enemy
November 12, 2015 - In the archives of botanical public enemies, the Japanese Knotweed is pretty close to the top of the worst-of-the-worst...
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Beautiful plague
June 08, 2015 - You know that it's almost summer—proper, astronomical summer—when the hedgerows and the edges of the fields go white and...
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The seedy part of town
November 03, 2014 - Today was column day, and, with the weather quite cool and windy, it not going to be much of a trekking day. Still, afte...
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