Simply The Best Natives-American Cranberry Viburnum
“The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.” ~Vita Sackville-West A few years ago, I highlighted a wonderful Viburnum dentatum that grows in my...
View ArticleSimply The Best Natives-Nodding Onion
“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don’t they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.” ~Ray Bradbury About 7 years ago, when I purchased my first native...
View ArticleSimply The Best Natives-Rudbeckia Hirta
“I know a plain old fashioned farmhouse down a pretty little lane Where yellow daisies make a pathway to the fields of golden grain. There a little girl is waiting where I found her years ago;...
View ArticleSimply The Best Natives-Blanket Flower
“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson When I first discovered native plants, I was introduced to a lovely flower that reminded me of sunsets in the...
View ArticleSimply The Best Natives-Christmas Fern
“Only spread a fern-frond over a man’s head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.” ~John Muir During this holiday season, it seemed a perfect time to profile a...
View ArticleSimply The Best Natives-Horsetail Rush
“…no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth’s thin veneer of life, which is ultimately run by bacteria, fungi and green plants.” ~Vaclav...
View ArticleSimply The Best Natives-Solomon’s Seal
“Believe one who knows: you will find something greater in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.” ~Saint Bernard de Clairvaux As I...
View ArticleSimply The Best Natives- Dutchman’s Breeches
“Wildflowers are the stuff of my heart!” ― Lady Bird Johnson As May becomes a riot of color and bloom, with green everywhere, I am reminded of a small, unassuming native wildflower that braves the...
View ArticleSimply The Best Natives-Wild Bleeding Heart
“Let us decide on the route that we wish to take to pass our life, and attempt to sow that route with flowers.” ~Madame du Chatelet I have always loved Bleeding Hearts, but the Asian Bleeding...
View ArticleAbundance of Wildflowers in May
” If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created...
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