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The many colors of NY ironweed seeds! It’s still seed collecting season. One of the cheapest and most satisfying ways to get more native plants in the ground is to collect and sow wild seed (only if there is an abundance to harvest of course.)
My latest newsletter post dropped this week! “Around the same time I started working professionally in field botany and ecology, I also began studying herbal medicine. It’s like a lightbulb went off in my head. Suddenly as I got to know m
Latest newsletter issue just hit inboxes! All about this exciting organic native meadow installation project! Subscribe to my free newsletter at link in bio to learn all about it! #nativemeadow #ecologicallandscaping #ecology #nativeplants #meadow
Looking beyond the bold reds, coppers and rusts of the fall colors there was a variety of lavenders and blues too! Some of the lichen species were a lovely pale lavender which was tricky to capture in the photos. And I was so pleased to find some rem
More Dolly Sods! Though it was grazed grassland for some time (hence the name Sods referring to open grasslands and fields) it was interesting to see how grass must have declined some since then as more shrubs (heaths of all kinds like huckleberry an
I started tearing up when we came across our first cranberry patch! 🥰🥹😍lol I don’t know why I guess because I just loved how adorable and beautiful the little vining plant is and I was just overcome by the joy of it. And they were full of be
Next newsletter issue is out now! Featuring some of my favorite tools for determining what’s native to an area and diving into determining how native a native plant should be (this often depends who you ask) and when it matters most! Some fav
The colors and textures of Dolly Sods groundcovers! Amazed by the diversity of squishy red mosses and choral like lichen and club mosses. And I was amazed by how much teaberry (aka wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens) there was! Made for a tasty tra