The leaves of Fetid Adder’s Tongue, Scoliopus bigelovii, pop out like a beacon below the shaded cover of redwood forest canopy. Just last week, I was strolling along the trails of Muir Woods, minding my own business, when I could practically hear it’s whispered shouting, “Hey, I’m over here…! Look at me!” A poignant, botanical [...]
Archive for February, 2011
February 18, 2011 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Botanical Moment, DISCOVER
Social Tagging: Feted Adder's Tongue • Left Coast Naturalist • Muir Woods • Pollinating Fungal Gnats • Scoliopus bigelovii • Winter Blooming Wildflower
Filed under: Botanical Moment, DISCOVER
Social Tagging: Feted Adder's Tongue • Left Coast Naturalist • Muir Woods • Pollinating Fungal Gnats • Scoliopus bigelovii • Winter Blooming Wildflower
February 15, 2011 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: Art, DESIGN, DISCOVER, DO, News
Social Tagging: Art • Environmental Graffiti • Graffiti • Guerrilla Gardener • Guerrilla Gardening • Inspired Topiary • Pro-active Garden Movement • Subversive Gardening
Filed under: Art, DESIGN, DISCOVER, DO, News
Social Tagging: Art • Environmental Graffiti • Graffiti • Guerrilla Gardener • Guerrilla Gardening • Inspired Topiary • Pro-active Garden Movement • Subversive Gardening
Guerrilla gardening akin to a Burning Man art car and possibly inspiration for alternative topiary. Limited only by imagination. The on-line magazine, Environmental Graffiti, provides insight into guerrilla gardening, stating, “…it’s an urban movement… sowing the seeds of subversive environmental pro-activism in the most beneficent of ways, brightening up our public spaces with the power of [...]
February 9, 2011 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: BEE, Ecology, Native
Social Tagging: Bringing Nature Home • Coevolution of Plants and Animals • Douglas Tallamy • Ecology • Entomology • Entomology and Plants • How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants • Native Plants • Plant and Animal Food Web • Plant Chemistry • Wildlife Ecology
Filed under: BEE, Ecology, Native
Social Tagging: Bringing Nature Home • Coevolution of Plants and Animals • Douglas Tallamy • Ecology • Entomology • Entomology and Plants • How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants • Native Plants • Plant and Animal Food Web • Plant Chemistry • Wildlife Ecology
It takes a certain amount of street smarts to think like a native. Confidence, adaptability and the right flavorful pizazz help too. But what does it mean to be native? The dictionary says something like this: “the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being: one’s native land”. [...]
February 3, 2011 by Emily Murphy · Leave a Comment
Filed under: BEE, Critters, Ecology, Nature
Social Tagging: Bee Magnate • Bumblebees • Effects of Non-native Plants on Native Plants • Flight of the Bumblebee • Garden Wise • Pollinator Behavior • University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Study
Filed under: BEE, Critters, Ecology, Nature
Social Tagging: Bee Magnate • Bumblebees • Effects of Non-native Plants on Native Plants • Flight of the Bumblebee • Garden Wise • Pollinator Behavior • University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Study
A bumblebee forages on Squaw Carpet, Ceanothus prostratus. Squaw Carpet, also known as Mahala Mat, is one of the first native plants to flower in the higher elevations of the Sierra Nevada. To see this spring hunt is to witness plunder. Bumblebees zipping around, one flower to the next. Sacks of pollen weighing down hind [...]