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Rose-elf and Fairy-spuds Ya gotta love a wildflower if it’s called Spring Beauty. Even Poison Ivy or Garlic Mustard would seem more likeable if either were called Spring Beauty. But they’re not. Only Spring Beauties are … well … Spring Beauties. And they are. Beauties, that is. rose-elf and fairy-spuds • gregg m. pasterick • wildflowers of north america • botany • ecology
Find a New Beauty Look for Spring Try something new this spring season with a fresh spring beauty look. spring beauty look • spring beauty tips • beauty makeup • beauty make up • beauty skin care
Spring - Beauty and Beast - Part 1, Beauty Spring is my favorite time of year - no question about it - but it's also the most frenzied time of year in my USDA zone 7 garden. Especially in years like this, when the weather doesn't let me get that much needed head start on cleaning up winter's debris. In my garden, spring is beautiful, but it's also a beast in many ways. springtime gardening • shade gardening
Spring - Beauty and Beast - Part 2 - Beast Spring's beauty ripens as the days lengthen and the sun strengthens. But, as there are two sides to every coin, so there are two sides to Spring. The Yin and Yang of Spring, so to speak. If the Yin is the beauty, the Yang is the beast. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Spring Skincare Get skin ready for spring with some quick, easy adjustments to the skincare regimen. spring skincare • skincare products • spring facial • spring beauty • sunscreen products
Try a Fresh Spring Beauty Look Have some fun this spring with a new beauty look that is fresh and classy. spring beauty look • spring beauty tips • beauty makeup • beauty make up • beauty skin care
Appreciating Spring In southern California, where winter happens somewhere else and flowers bloom year ‘round, it might be easy to lose sight of what spring means to folks in Ohio or Indiana or North Carolina, all places where winter has spit me out into the warm motherly embrace of the Vernal Equinox. Perhaps my attitude has grown fat and lazy, but I hope not. Though I have been blessed with a bounty of tolerable weather and winter-long wildflowers this year, I can still feel the wonder and the glee that only spring can polish my silver with. appreciating spring • gregg m. pasterick • wildflowers of north america • botany • ecology
Early Bloomers in a New Land After three weeks of a constantly spinning turnstile here, at the inn, my wife and I finally got away from the mountains and the winter for a couple days, heading for the coast and Point Reyes National Seashore. Imagine our surprise, discovering verdant slopes tumbling into the blue Pacific Ocean, full of life as well as the promise of life. Gray Whales were spouting off-shore, a variety of birds soared and zoomed and fluttered and hovered, a Bobcat hunkered down in the tall grass as we hiked by, Tule Elk foraged here and there, and an assortment of wildflowers were already in bloom. wildflowers of north america • botany • gregg pasterick • ecology • environment
Spring Ephemerals April is the usual month for those exotic beauties known as the "spring ephemerals", fragile wildflowers that pop up in a brief window of opportunity. spring ephemeral • wildflowers • woodland flowers • forest flowers • trout lily
A Kind of Retrospective Sunlight has just forced open the clouds, draping itself across the pine trees like the snow that fell before it. Winter has found the Sierra Nevada Mountains not with a vengeance, but with a kind of lazy persistence. Not a polar bear by nature, I turn a blind eye to the Ansel Adams landscape, instead contenting myself with my usual cup of coffee and a stack of colorful, warm wildflower photographs. 2001 was a great year of wildflower discovery for me, and a day like this begs for a retrospective. wildflowers • north america • gregg pasterick • photography • henbit
Wild Starches A few of our wild friends which provide us some starchy roots and tubers... wild starches • gregg m. pasterick • wildflowers of north america • botany • ecology
Mailorder Nurseries Online and Off, Part 2 - Munchkin Nursery We web gardeners not only have access to plants and goodies, we can get to know the people who operate the nurseries, too. If any of you subscribe to the Gardens-L, Shadegardens, or Perennials email lists (to name a few) you probably feel like you already know Gene Bush, owner of Munchkin Nursery in Depauw, Indiana. If you haven't had the pleasure, find out about Gene, his nursery and some of the plants he has for your shady garden. munchkin nursery • mailorder nurseries • online nurseries • mailorder plants • nurseries
April Pleasures In The Woods April is my favorite spring month, and if I were a poet, I'd write an entire book of poems just about her. April pleasures in the woods are ethereal and fleeting. They are gone in the blink of an eye, it seems. april • woods • spring • brook • winding
Shrubs for Bright Fall Foliage Red, yellow, orange and burgundy-purple colors make the autumn landscape shine with brilliant colors. These shrubs add fall foliage accents to the garden. fall foliage • autumn plants • colorful shrubs • hydrangea • blueberry
Spring-blooming Bulbs Design Ideas Planted together Narcissus (daffodil) bulbs and specialty (minor) bulbs lead to pest-resistant, perennial and naturalized landscape garden designs. spring-blooming bulbs landscape designs • daffodil and minor bulb combinations • perennialize spring-blooming bulbs • naturalize spring-blooming bulbs • pest-resistant spring-blooming bulbs
Trilliums I Found Though there ares some Trilliums I haver never seen, as a result of a my midlife travels, I have found Prairie Trillium in Indiana, and Yellow Trillium, Painted Trillium and Purple or Red Trillium in North Carolina. trilliums i found • gregg m. pasterick • wildflowers of north amrica • botany • ecology
Trilliums I Have Missed In the two years since we left Ohio, we’ve lived on Lake Michigan, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and now in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. It has been a carrousel of nature, and in those two years we have, not even once, regretted our decision, looked back over our shoulders, or missed Ohio. Of course, that is not entirely true. I never got to see Snow Trillium, an early bloomer that has a very limited range in Ohio. I never came across Catesby’s Trillium in North Carolina. trilliums i have missed • gregg m. pasterick • wildflowers of north america • botoany • ecology
A Garden Center The Watson Garden Center, a rainbow of color, captured under glass, watson garden center • spring • seedlings • greenhouse gardening
Forest Fungi Fungi,the flowers of the forest. scilla siberica • snowdrops • dog tooth violets • adders tongue • bird nest fungus
Little Bulbs for Big Pleasure In drifts, used as underplantings with perennials or shrubs, or in pots, small bulbs create a big effect in the early spring garden. early spring blooming bulbs • snowdrops • galanthus nivallis • galanthus elwesii • iris reticulata
Mother's Day Bouquet Mum's the word. It's countdown to Mother's Day! How about a nice bouquet of flowers for a special lady. Check out this very easy craft project. mother's day • holiday • mom • silk flowers • dried flowers
My friend, the Garden Light begins to creep through the windows and I hear a magical song from the unidentified bird that is living in my garden.
The Thrill of Columbine Unlike its pumped up, steroid-engorged, centerfold-beautiful cultivated cousins, Wild Columbine is a delicate fay flower of exquisite beauty, preferring the quiet woodland life in cliffs and rocky outcroppings to large colonies or barren roadsides. Coming upon them in the woods is as magical a surprise as finding the fairies these lovely blossoms suggest the thrill of columbine • gregg m. pasterick • wildflowers of north america • botany • folklore
Little Miracles in the Spring Garden A slow stroll around the spring garden reveals little miracles - things often so small that only a gardener could love them - but all full of hope and renewal.
Preparing Daffodil Beds for Fall Planting. Preparing daffodil beds for fall planting, isn't an exact science, but should follow a plan to provide organic matter and drainage. daffodils • narcissus • daffodil planting • daffodil bulbs • daffodil gardens
Clearing Woods - Ferns and Other Forbs - Part 2 At ground level in my USDA zone 7 woodland, live the forbs. I started clearing in July, so any early spring residents may well have retired underground by then. Those visible were, with one exception, exotic rampant weeds. shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials |
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