In a recent letter to the editor in the Boston Globe Jeffrey Collins, director at Mass Audubon, outlines how we can save the endangered monarch butterfly. He recommends that we leave a section of the lawn go wild and plant…
It seems that the colorful caladium has become this summer's popular garden plant. A local box store still offers dozens for sale in 5 inch pots. There you will find about 200 potted plants of caladium, now selling for the…
Harriet Keeler (1846-1921) was a Cleveland, Ohio educator, botanist, author, suffragist, and lover of nature. Each aspect of her self-made career brought her a measure of celebrity far beyond northeast Ohio. Today at the Harriet Keeler Memorial in Brecksville Reservation…
New Bedford, Massachuetts is located on the Acushnet River in what is known as the South Coast region. It has a long history of involvement in the whaling industry. Today you can learn about that history in the city's famous…
People plant the same flowers every year. Why? It is the familiar and known that we love. Some of us do the same with eating out. Food writer David McAninch writes that people frequent restaurants that have been favorites for…