This past week the American Society of Botanical Artists held their online spring conference. It was a pleasure to sit comfortably in my living room and watch very talented botanical artists from many different parts of the world talk about their painting processes....
Here in West Virginia we now have daffodils blooming in our gardens and along walking paths, like messengers of spring. Whew! Finally spring seems to have broken through the cold and the snow of a particularly cold February.Where there are daffodils, there are other...
Our Lenten Roses (Helleborus sp.) are now above ground and promising pink and white blooms soon. This is one of the confusingly named flowers. This flower was called a Lenten Rose because it blooms during Lent in the Christian calendar in Europe. This hellebore is not...
It’s that time of year again. Goldenrod is everywhere along the roads, in the fields, popping up in gardens. It is a great pollinator plant. Butterflies and bees use goldenrod as a source of late summer pollen so they can spend the winter with full stomachs. When I...
I have some blue cranesbill geraniums which spread aggressively in my garden and even in with the weeds. These are not the red double geraniums sold in all the flower stores. These are cranesbill geraniums (Geranium maculatum “Rosanne”). The native wild geraniums...
