Echinacea purpurea is a also a member of the Asteraceae family. Popular home gardens and landscape long lasting in gardens. Goldfinches like it. Leave the cone seed head on the flower into first frost. Flocks of Goldfinches visit and pluck the seeds. Fun for everyone to watch. Birders and introduce…
Blue Courtyard, Rusinol Santiago Rusinol was not as well known as a painter of gardens as Monet. Rusinol was not a gardener, but he loved gardens, especially his native Spanish gardens. Gardens were symbolism to him. Symbolism was an An art movement in Europe.
do some research on this Earliest recorded garden was prehistoric, a small clearing near the edges of woods, trees. It then became something that had an enclosure, a fence or border to keep animals out. How did public gardens develop? As something society invented for everyone. Cities did not have the…
It is confusing terms and definitions on plant lists. Native or nonnative or introduced. Noxious or toxic list. Here are two examples of pretty flowers I took photos because nature photography is one of my hobbies. After taking Penn State courses on environmental and conservation in communities, I found that…
Many areas are not used in land use called marginal areas. These areas exist along the edges. Sedum ternatum Michx. Woodland stonecrop, Wild stonecrop Crassulaceae (Stonecrop Family) agriculture, on steep slopes or too small to have cultivation, poor soil or other conditions, too rocky. What to plant in Sandy soil? clay soil?…
How many movies made about plants? Little Shop of Horrors and the seed pods taking over a town from the 1950’s classics. because of the nuclear bombs and speculation about radiation and what it would do spawned Godzilla and giant spiders and seed pods. Little Shop of Horrors scary spoof…
