In Praise of Poison Ivy
In Praise of Poison Ivy explores the vices and virtues of a plant with a dramatic history–and a rosy future. Once planted in gardens from Versailles to Monticello, poison ivy now has a crucial role in the American landscape.
Read MoreNaulakha: Rudyard Kipling in Vermont
Rudyard Kipling designed his house, Naulakha, to ride the Vermont hills like a ship on a wave. Here he wrote the Jungle Books and the beloved Just So Stories.
Read MoreBirch Forest: The Lungs of the Earth
The sub-alpine birch forest, in Abisko National Park in the northernmost part of Sweden, above the Arctic Circle. Last fall, I happened to visit at a rare time of sunshine, and in the low rays of the autumn light the leaves were pure gold.
Read MoreLondon Plane Tree: East Meets West
London plane trees decorate streets all over the world. Hardy hybrids of American sycamore and oriental plane trees, they defy smog and traffic.
Read MoreLinnaeus’s Garden
You could say he’s the father of all gardeners—all modern gardeners, anyway. Karl Linne (or Carolus Linnaeus, to use the Latin form of his name, which he preferred) had a garden with thousands of species of plants in it, each and every one named by himself.
Read MoreSeeing Brown: November Leaves
In November, the red and yellow leaves are gone, but there’s still a wealth of color. In nature, there are way more than fifty shades of brown.
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