A small patch of biodiversity - i.e.: weeds - from my driveway. A recent article in the Wall Street Journal has people talking about it,...

2018-06-23 : Updated with more links. Following is the outline, speaker notes, and references of my talk at this year's Native Plants ...

I spoke this year at the Native Plants in the Landscape Conference at Millersville University in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The organiz...

The "weedy" remnants of my front lawn, where Viola sororia , common blue violet , has taken charge. Easily overlooked, it seeds i...

Today I made my way to my first Gowanus Canal Conservancy Native Plant Sale . Today is Earth Day 2018, and today's sale was held at the...

Terrible news. Until this announcement,  Agrilus planipennis , emerald ash borer, or EAB for short, had been found throughout New York sta...

Rockaway Beach Boulevard, between Beach 113th & 114th Streets, Rockaway Park, Queens, November 4, 2012 The storm surge flooded this bl...

[Transcribed from a 2017-09-16 Twitter thread and back-dated.] I originally wrote this as a linked group of posts on Twitter in respons...

NYC-Native Species Asarum canadense , wild ginger Fragaria virginiana , Virginia strawberry Geranium maculatum Geum rivale , p...

Persephone with her pomegranate. Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Proserpine (Oil on canvas, 1874) - Tate Gallery, London This season's sols...