Wild Wild Woods

 

 

Suddenly, this morning, a flock of migrating Dark-eyed Juncos appeared in the buffer at the edge of the pond.  These sparrows,  Junco hyemal...

 Some plants stand through winter, displaying their structure and form with monochrome colors frosted in snow.

Many plants, which bloom and fruit in the warm growing season, stand bravely throughout the winter to ensure its seeds are fully distributed...

 Asters in the Symphyotrichum genus may be blue, lavender, or white, and many shades of those colors.  These lavender flowers, blooming now...

The native perennial wildflower still showing vibrant periwinkle blooms in the riparian buffer is Blue Lobelia Lobelia siphilitica.  It also...

On the blooming coneflowers, a Two-striped Grasshopper Melanoplus bivittatus rests in the sunshine.  This grasshopper usually lives in sunn...

It is time to harvest some wildflower seeds, in order to expand the native plant population in the riparian buffer surrounding our pond.  Th...

You might see me pulling weeds, snipping tree sprouts, or clipping seed heads in the riparian buffer surrounding our pond.  This is necessar...

Horsetail Equisetum spp.  is a living dinosaur among plants; it belongs to a plant family that dates back to 350 million years ago.  On the ...

Blooming now in the riparian buffer around the pond - -  Virginia Mountain Mint,  Pycnanthemum virginianum.   Look for them as  2 or 3 fo...