I'm limiting this list to northern North America for two reasons: Restricting this list geographically is in keeping with my specializ...

Want to build next to the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens? This might be your one and only chance. - Development Site Adjacent to Brooklyn Botani...

Sunday, while cutting up edited plants into my compost tumbler, I caught sight of something unusual out of the corner of my eye. It turned o...

2015-09-19 : Added Homeosoma , observed 10 days ago and just identified, bringing the total to 23. 2015-09-13 : Two more Hymenoptera speci...

Pyrrhalta viburni , the viburnum leaf beetle, or VLB for short, is native to Europe. It was first discovered in North America barely two dec...

Notice anything different about me? Until a few minutes ago, the by-line at the header of this blog read: Adventures in Neo-Victorian, Wil...

Saturday, June 13 was the last open day in 2015 for the Long Island Native Plant Initiative (LINPI) Plant Sale . I picked up another 13 spe...

Our Ripley died with us around 1:30 this morning. It's still the middle of the night. We had an 8am appointment with the vet for an u...

This is a checklist of just the plant species native to New York City I'm growing in my garden. I'm posting this for the benefit of ...

At last night's meeting of the Long Island Botanical Society , I spoke about my experiences gardening with native plants in an urban set...