April 22 is the date most people recognize, but there’s another one. When you do the research, you learn that April 22 is the date used by Sen. Gaylord Nelson, the man who is often said to be the “Founder of Earth Day”, based on the first celebration 37 years ago. But an activist editor [...]
“The Wildflower Wave” we follow each spring has begun. The Southwestern deserts are lighting up with color while snow and cold continue in most of the country. If you’d like to follow along, here are two fascinating sites that are updated daily, with reports and photos of what’s happening. Yes, the wildflowers are in bloom: [...]
A great friend of mine, Andrew Goodman, recently wrote to tell us about a new contest and program being done by a site called AppliancePros.com. These guys are friends of Andrew’s, and instead of just saying they support the troops, they’re doing something about it. Here’s the story about packages sent for Thanksgiving; they’re now working on the [...]
Today, I was looking for a great photo of holly to use on our homepage for Christmas. I Googled Images, and found a really beautiful one from an herb site. I emailed and asked for permission to use the photo, as I always do, and within an hour, I had my answer. A really nice [...]
Did you know that daffodils are still common in the wild? Well, the ancestral home of many favorite daffodil species is the Ukraine, and a famous valley there has been protected. This is the homeland of the very famous “Poet’s Daffodil”, sometimes called “Old Pheasant’s Eye”. A newer version of it is “Actaea.” It’s most [...]
It’s fall, and all gardeners are thinking about bulbs. We have a wonderful selection at AmericanMeadows.com, but if you’re anything like me, you are clicking around and fascinated by all the photos. If you don’t, you should know about Old House Gardens, a fantastic site devoted to “heirloom” plants and bulbs. At this time of [...]
After all the flooding rains in the Southwest, homes may be sliding off hillsides, streets in LA may be awash, but one thing is wonderful: the bloom of the desert wildflowers in California’s southern mountains. Near the Mexico border, Anza-Borrego State Park is famous for its desert flowers in “good years”, and as you can [...]
Welcome to Wildflowers, 2005. Our southwestern deserts are bursting into bloom right now, and early reports predict a really spectacular desert wildflower bloom this year. The Spring Wildflower Wave always begins in the deserts, then lights up the California coast, (photo) rolls eastward into Texas for big bloom in Mar/Apr, and then on to the [...]
His real name was E. H. Wilson, and he was one of the great “Plant Explorers” around the turn of the last century. Dr. Wilson was sent to the Orient to “discover” new plants, and sent back thousands of them to England, and then later to the US, since he worked for Boston’s Arnold Arboretum [...]
