On Saturday, June 21, in partnership with NYC Wildflower Week , in observation of Pollinator Week , I'm opening my gardens for a guided ...

Two years ago, on May 19, 2012, I married my husband, John. These were my vows: John: I don’t know what I can say to you that I’ve not a...

Updated 2014-05-11 : At the request of one of my readers, I started adding photos of the flowers. Retracted Erythronium; I checked, and its...

After all their protests that eliminating their research staff in August 2013 was not "the end of science" at Brooklyn Botanic Gar...

Recipe updated (improved?) 2016-12-03 .

Updates: 2013-10-05 : Guest post on Garden Rant . 2013-09-26 : Thanks to the Brokelyn link, the petition surges past 2,500, adding 800 new...

Updated 2013-09-05: CORRECTION - The white-flowering plant is Eupatorium hyssopifolium , Hyssop-leaf Throughwort, not E. perfoliatum , Com...

Sign the Petition to Restore Science to Brooklyn Botanic Garden ! (Added 2013-09-16) Updates : 2013-08-29: Added more links. I will conti...

Setting aside for a moment the less-than-appealing staging, this is a beautiful creature. This is Dolichovespula maculata , the Bald-Faced...

Philanthus gibossus , Beewolf, on Pycnanthemum muticum , Clustered Mountain-Mint, in my native plant gardens this past weekend. This thir...