Buttonbush, also called honey-bells and button-willow, is a deciduous shrub or small tree native to wetlands such as swamps, marshes, riverbanks, and floodplains from New Brunswick and Minnesota south to…
Giant sea holly is a short lived herbaceous perennial often considered a biennial, and is native to the Caucasus and Iran. The first year it produces a basal rosette of…
Also called wolfsbane and helmet flower, this herbaceous perennial is a member of the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, that also includes columbine, hellebore, and delphinium. It is native and endemic to…
Gail Gibbon’s book, The Vegetables We Eat, is both an introduction to the different kinds of vegetables and a mini botany lesson. Gibbons begins with the concepts of perennials and…
A rose bush covered with large flowers is very appealing especially if the bush is low maintenance. The four roses described below have flowers that are at least four inches…
Bush honeysuckle is a small deciduous suckering shrub native to open deciduous or mixed coniferous woods, rocky slopes, and roadsides in eastern North America from Newfoundland to Saskatchewan, south to…
Soldier beetles belong to the Cantharidae family of insects with about four hundred seventy species in North America. They are also known as leatherwings because of their tough wing covers…
Also called green arrow arum and tuckahoe, this aquatic plant is a member of the arum family, Aracaeae, that also includes Jack in the pulpit, peace lily, and skunk cabbage.…
The Palace of Versailles with its garden has a certain mystic and conjures up visions of grandeur and an extravagant life style, but is that the true picture of the…
The works of American glass sculptor Dale Chihuly have been admired for many years and in the summer of 2018 an exhibition of Chihuly’s works came to Biltmore in Asheville,…
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