Cold Moist Stratification Basics

It’s time to stratify native plant species that require cold-moist conditions. Our preferred method is based on original guidance from our friend Ann Casper.

Getting Started with Native Plants

Co-written by Sarah @littlelovelywhatnots and Dan Barron A lighting bug rests under the flower of Anemone virginiana (Tall Thimbleweed). | Photo by Sarah Barron No matter your garden, or gardening experience, planting native species can be aesthetically pleasing while...

Andropogon

This Big Blue, Turkey Foot, Andropogon, erupted from sleeping grave, an emergence from the dead, extinct as a union soldier among the toppled limestone graves, a city park, a scarcely populated relic of the past, steep hill, gnarled Oaks, toppled fence and prairie...

Unexpected Guests

When packing up for a short paddling trip in mid-September I noticed a monarch chrysalis on the side of my canoe. I carefully removed it and using masking tape attached it to a wire suspended from my house. Weeks...

Open for Business

Killdeer

Vivid warmth in the ridge winds today's distant problems keep a brisk pace while Killdeer run ahead giving away their secrets

Anemone

When spring winds blow and the frost evaporates into sunlite the Pasque Flowers make a push the annual awakening for a most hopeful appearance despite the deserts adjacent and the tanks of chemicals property of the new paradigm...

Puncture Cloud

On Sundays I like to walk around new places, take it in, just to get the smell right, or to find new shadows. The crisp autumn makes my head feel light, sunlight makes me flush. Sunday, the day to notice things...

People’s Climate March, Midtown NYC 9/21

The people gathered along coordinated routes, organized and grouped by devotion. Estimates exceeded, hoping to be noticed, a representation of 1:100 assumed. Now will we dust off our eyes to trim a few watts, a few degrees, a plastic cup or trip to the store?...

Soft Shoes

The left-behind, always on the fringe, but once recognized, lived again and again. Yes, the modern world is this bad. But an ability to see behind, beyond the scrim, a beautiful reckoning. -...

Anemone

When spring winds blow and the frost evaporates into sunlite the Pasque Flowers make a push the annual awakening for a most hopeful appearance despite the deserts adjacent and the tanks of chemicals property of the new paradigm...

Puncture Cloud

On Sundays I like to walk around new places, take it in, just to get the smell right, or to find new shadows. The crisp autumn makes my head feel light, sunlight makes me flush. Sunday, the day to notice things...

Soft Shoes

The left-behind, always on the fringe, but once recognized, lived again and again. Yes, the modern world is this bad. But an ability to see behind, beyond the scrim, a beautiful reckoning. -...

Seeing

When humid air rests on arms, bare for the first afternoon in half a year, life begins to happen, and bored eyes begin to re-explore, the sacred spectacle of time. (April in the marsh)

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