Nature Journaling #27: Difference in Leaves
Want to create a nature journal with your child? Grab some paper and a pencil, step out the front door and use this prompt.
Nature Journaling #26: What’s Your Favorite Flower?
Want to create a nature journal with your child? Grab some paper and a pencil, step out the front door and use this prompt.
Nature Journaling #25: Go Micro
Want to create a nature journal with your child? Grab some paper and a pencil, step out the front door and use this prompt.
There’s Gold in The Hills!
Around the same time every year — late summer through early fall — our fields, meadows, prairies and wetlands take on a golden-yellow hue. This color change is primarily caused by a priceless pollinator plant,…
Whistling Leaves
When I was taught about how plants create their own energy as a child, I thought it was cool they didn’t have to hunt or grow their own food — but mostly it was a…
Happy Holly Days
‘Tis the season to be holly! While most of the plant world has dropped their leaves for the winter, some native plants keep pumping out oxygen all winter long like this holly, Ilex spp. The…
Speaking Plainly: The Natural History of the London Planetree
Languedoc, a region in the South of France, is full of lanes lined with London planetrees. Upon first glance, this tree bears a striking resemblance to our American sycamore. The plane’s leaves are somewhat smaller,…
Common Milkweed: A Universe All Its Own
The milkweed is blooming, the milkweed is blooming! Why all of the excitement? Common milkweed is a favorite plant for more than 450 species of aphids, bees, wasps, beetles, butterflies, moths and more. Whether these…