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New years resolution 2011: teach and inspire humans to love, know and protect...
In 2011 I will be sharing with you why you need to respect and bring native plants into your life. I will be doing this in a pragmatic way. First I am going to take up the post-a-week challenge made...
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January 2011 Native Plant Events in Cascadia
Artic Lupine Salem, Oregon Amateur Naturalist Series -Landscaping with Natives, Gail Gredler January 13, Thursday, 7-8:30 pm Program: Creating Native Plant Gardens. Gail Gredler, Instructor of...
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What is a native plant and why are they so important to human and ecosystem...
Fenders Blue Butterfly and the Kincaid Lupine I attended a wonderful talk at the Straub Environmental Center is Salem, Oregon last night. The speaker Gail Gredler an instructor at our local community...
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Plant Identification: Part 1-The Quest and Shooting Stars.
Shooting stars at Mt. Shasta “The day man experienced the consciousness that made him feel separate and superior to the other forms of life, at that moment he began sowing the seeds of his own...
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Plant Identification: Part 2 – Renaming the plants – Binomial nomenclature
Kinship with all things For thousands of years humans have tried to categorized plants into systems that could be memorized and recalled when needed. At first plants were named after the color, smell,...
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Plant identification: Part 3 – Keying and profiling plants
Click for larger image I use a two step method of identifying plants. I first use a profile sheet that allows me to check off key parts of a particular plant, make a sketch and collect plant samples....
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Honoring Our Ancestral Plants: Wapato
Wapato Wapato – Sagittarian Latifolia ( Broadleaf Arrowhead, tule potato, duck potato, arrowleaf). This story was told to me. I have never seen Wapato. I search for it often to release it back into...
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The Wild Seed
When I was a child growing up on the edge of a white (Quercus garryanna) oak forest in Oregon I loved to collect the wild seeds of native plants. I was attracted to their great beauty, unusual design,...
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