The spring ephemerals continue…
Find the habitat, find the plants. That’s a good Keith quote. Our friend Parker from White Mountain Mushrooms suggested we try a spot that he had scoped out earlier, and it …
The spring ephemerals have sprung!
It’s around this time of year that folks to the south and west of us start sharing pictures of spring ephemerals, the glorious first blooms of spring! Spring ephemerals are …
A spring walk in Sidney Butler Smith Woodland
Sidney Butler Smith Woodland is a Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests tract in Tuftonboro NH. I’d never been there, but Keith had visited it during hunting season …
Purple fringed bog orchids and Ditch Botany
You know how some roadsides are lined with ferns or Japanese knotweed (invasive, invasive, invasive!) or are dutifully mowed far too often by overzealous town crews? Well, go to Northern …
Native Orchids! The season has begun!
We looooove native orchids! There are FIFTY TWO native orchids listed for New Hampshire, and most folks are not aware that there is even one. Â Four of the fifty two …
More May Wildflowers!
‘Tis the season for lots of wildflowers to start blooming here in New Hampshire! Wild sarsparilla, or Aralia nudicaulis, is a common sight in the woods these days. They are …
