Blogs about: Native Invasive Plants
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Native & invasive ornamental grasses
Landscaping and gardening with ornamental grasses is hot. Ornamental grasses provide home gardens with nesting sites, food, and cover for birds and other animals; pleasing and unusual texture and dime… more →
Earth Friendly Gardening
Native & invasive ornamental grasses
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Caroline wrote 1 year ago: Landscaping and gardening with ornamental grasses is hot. Ornamental grasses provide home gardens wi … more →
Skunk cabbage
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Caroline wrote 1 year ago: Skunk cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus) is staring to leafing out in wetland areas so I know that spri … more →
Why not plant some native fruits?
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Caroline wrote 1 year ago: Fruit trees and shrubs are a great way to expand your backyard food production beyond the vegetable … more →
Fall field trip: Tower Hill Botanical Garden
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Caroline wrote 2 years ago: Last week I drove up to Tower Hill Botanical Garden in Boylston, Mass., about an hour’s drive … more →
Rare ghost orchid found in Florida
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Caroline wrote 2 years ago: Check out the recent find at a Florida nature preserve: Photo courtesy of Clyde Butcher via the Sier … more →
Great resource on gardening and global warming
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Caroline wrote 2 years ago: The National Wildlife Federation (NWF) has a lot of interesting programs and information for “ … more →
Native plant resource
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Caroline wrote 2 years ago: Do other gardeners have the same problem that I do of finding specific plants? I’ll hear about … more →
Partnership limits invasive species & promotes natives
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Caroline wrote 2 years ago: Poking around on The Nature Conservancy’s website, I found a recent press release about a part … more →
Invasive plants reconsidered
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Caroline wrote 2 years ago: I’ve been thinking a lot about invasive plants lately, because earlier this month I attended t … more →
Wildlife in the garden
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Caroline wrote 3 years ago: For too many people, wildlife in the garden conjures up images of aphids, snails, crows, deer, or ot … more →
Why it's hard to hate invasive plants
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Caroline wrote 3 years ago: It’s hard to be an invasive plant killer because they can be so pretty, dammit. After all, tha … more →
Native plant: pale corydalis
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Caroline wrote 3 years ago: No more politics for now–let’s talk about pale corydalis (Corydalis sempervirens), a nat … more →
Native plant: goat's rue
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Caroline wrote 3 years ago: Goat’s rue (Tephrosia virginica) is a rare native plant (in Rhode Island) that can be found at … more →
Causes of too much algae: excessive nitrogen
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Caroline wrote 3 years ago: In my last post, I blogged about some of the consequences of too much algae in waterways. Some algae … more →
Aquatic plant invader: Algae & water resources
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Caroline wrote 3 years ago: Not for nuttin’ (as the local says) is Rhode Island called the Ocean State, Rhode Islanders ha … more →
More information about pink lady's slipper
Caroline wrote 3 years ago: Last weekend I had the experience of seeing seventeen real live pink lady's slippers in their na … more →
I saw seventeen pink lady's slippers!
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Caroline wrote 3 years ago: This weekend, Curt and I went for a walk on a nature trail near our house. On the way back, I saw re … more →
Lily of the Valley
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Caroline wrote 3 years ago: No blogging this weekend and limited blogging today…I had a nearly catastrophic computer incid … more →
Getting wild with native plants
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Caroline wrote 3 years ago: I got a fun little gig as a "stringer"–that's journalism speak for freelance wri … more →
