Friday, September 30, 2022

homage to Indigenous Plants and their pollinators

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harvesting tomatoes from my wall garden in September On Tuesday I spoke on "My Wall" to the Horticultural Societies of Parkdale an...
Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Finding the Mother Tree - the connectedness of nature.

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Review: Finding the Mother Tree, by Suzanne Simard    by Clement Kent  Debuting in fourth place on the New York Times Best Seller list for ...
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

Fake Honey: two generations of learned beekeepers strike back

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 Last year I was at Apimondia in Montréal, a big international convention of beekeepers, bee researchers, and suppliers of beekeeping and h...
Thursday, June 4, 2020

Pawpaws, flies, and Jurassic pollinators

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Pawpaw flower with many flies, C. Kent CC-by-SA 3.0 Last time I blogged about a non-traditional pollinator, beetles . Today it's t...
Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Carolina Allspice and Sap Beetles

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Carolina Allspice, Calycanthus floridus When I think about pollinators, beetles are not the first ones to come to mind, even though the...
Thursday, February 27, 2020

Project Swallowtail Plant List - Key plants for Swallowtail Butterflies

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This is the first of several pages that will list native plants we are using to support native pollinators in Project Swallowtail . This pa...
Thursday, February 6, 2020

Balcony Herbs for You and for the Pollinators

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Many of us live in apartments, without a plot of earth for a garden. If you want to treat yourself and pollinators well, what should you gr...