Cold Spring
This spring there’s a chill in the air that isn’t only due to the weather. Spring of 2020, a season that will long be remembered. This spring will be in the history books, and not just for a mid-May snowstorm. Snow in May! Coating the new leaves, covering the greening grass. Sometimes the wintry air seems like it will never warm up. The good news is that the snow didn’t kill the new leaves, they’re still hanging on.
Read MoreDame’s Rocket: The Wandering Lady
Dame’s Rocket, gorgeously attired in shades of white, rose-pink, lavender and purple, wanders into gardens, meadows, landfills. She hitchhikes along roadways. She lines the pond, and the forest, and the parking lot at the mall.
Read MorePoison Ivy Is Shiny: True or False?
You can always spot poison ivy because it’s shiny. True or false?
Standardized tests aside, answers in real life are rarely absolutely true or completely false. Poison ivy shiny? True, sometimes, especially in spring. False, most of the time.
Best Trees of the Decade
Do they watch us go by–or sense us somehow? Scientists are finding out that plants are more complex, and have more ability to communicate, than we had ever dreamed. Do they notice us, miss us, mourn us?
Read MoreBurdock: Wicked Hooks
Velcro was invented by a scientist whose dog blundered into the tall prickly plant called burdock. And nothing adheres to fuzzy surfaces more effectively than the wickedly curved hooks of burdock.
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