Theobrominated

For the next couple of weeks, I’m travelling in the southern South Island of New Zealand with a group of students from Lewis & Clark Col...

One of the worst weeds in disturbed bush remnants (and some barely tended gardens I'm a bit familiar with) is wandering willy, or Trade...

Wellington abounds with small forest remnants in gullies and on hillsides, most of them second-growth.  Many of them have dedicated "fr...

How small could a flower get?  In a previous post I mentioned New Zealand's smallest flower, Wolffia arrhiza .  The smallest New Zealan...

People are starting to get used to the idea that the hebes and parahebes of New Zealand really do belong back in the genus Veronica , where...

A herbarium is one of the main tools for research and documentation of plant biodiversity.  It sounds like a garden, and in fact an old nam...

I love it when the spring winds die away and the warm days of summer arrive.  But I hate it too, because when Dactylis glomerata flowers, m...