In celebration of National Pollinator Week, I was preparing to write this blog posting about some of my favorite native plants for pollinators. You know, things like New Jersey tea or goldendrod. There are a many critical sources of pollen and nectar for our native bees and other pollinators, but I thought it would be [...]
Plants in Paintings:: Vincent van Gogh
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“If one really loves nature, one can find beauty everywhere.” -Vincent van Gogh This is the second post in a short series about the importance of plants in the arts. The first post was Plants in Poetry and looked at the various ways plants were used as inspiration, symbolism, morals and as an appreciation of [...]
Plants in Poetry
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Plants are beneficial for a lot of reasons such as providing habitat and food for wildlife. However, lest we forget, plants are also important to humans, not just for food and shelter, but for the arts. In the first of a short series of posts I’m going to look at some of the arts in [...]
Plant This, Not That: The Book
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Many of the writers on this blog have been contributing to a series of posts called “Plant This, Not That“. In each case, we highlight a couple of plants that are invasive and/or overused and then suggest some great native alternatives. In my most recent contribution, I focused on native groundcovers for Baltimore. However, I [...]
