About Native Wildflowers
1. Typhoid saviour. One of the native wildflowers, Joe Pye weed, boneset to some, and botanically Eutrochium (reclassified from Eupatorium a few
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Plants
About Daylilies
1. The “perfect perennial”. Daylilies are often called the perfect perennial because they are easy to grow, come in many
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About Cabbages
1. Cabbage head. Coming from the Middle-English word caboge, which itself probably derived from the French word caboce, both meaning “head”, the word
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About Alliums
Allium azureum Toxicoxcordion venenosum Allium cepa (onion) Allium sativum (garlic) Allium moly Allium schoenoprasum (chives) 1. What are alliums? Plants
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Raspberries
1. Oh Ida, how red your blood. Raspberries, Greek mythology has it, were once white. Then along came Zeus’ nursemaid,
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About Carnivorous Plants
1. They eat what? Carnivorous plants don’t eat meat, really; they eat insects and spiders and other arthropods. One of
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About Honeyberries
Photo: Hansicanada, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 1. What’s blue, grows on a bush and melts in your mouth?
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About Grapes
1. Sour grapes. The expression ‘sour grapes’ originated from Aesop’s fable about the fox and the grapes; a hungry fox
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Early Spring Flowers
1. Hellebores. One of the early spring flowers, Hellebores, are poisonous, as are many plants in the garden. The sap
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Talk about wildflowers
Hosts Dorothy and Shauna Dobbie talk to Kelly Leask about the wonderful world of wildflowers. Wildflowers nourish bees and other
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