Headed North!
Over the holiday weekend we headed North. We have a camp in Coos County, New Hampshire that we do not get to often enough! It’s an entirely different world up there, …
Get Outside, Get Dirty!
The wildflowers of New Hampshire and New England
Over the holiday weekend we headed North. We have a camp in Coos County, New Hampshire that we do not get to often enough! It’s an entirely different world up there, …
This past week was a busy one with the launch of our summer project – Backyard Biology 2016, a crowdsourced natural inventory of our community! Residents and visitors to the …
A few weeks ago we pulled over to take a picture of a quite beautiful patch of blooming Epigaea repens. As we were walking back to the Jeep, Keith peeked up …
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 …
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 …
Vaccininium macrocarpon, or large cranberry, is found in bogs throughout New England and is a true native American fruit. You’ve probably driven by a cranberry bog, not realizing that a …
I am always looking for photos of different plants when they are not in their prime flowering season. Most images show a healthy blooming plant. As I come across over-wintering …
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 …
It certainly does not feel like winter! The lack of snow is a little worrisome for the spring wild mushroom season (two lack-luster morel seasons in a row would not …
Finally, a new New England wildflower guide. Wildflowers of New England, a Timber Press Field Guide, was just released this week! Written by Ted Elliman, in partnership with the New …
September can be such a tease! Deep down, we know it’s fall. The kids are back to school, after all. But it’s still so warm ….and sunny….. and there are …
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 …
Platanthera blephariglottis! Platanthera blephariglottis! Platanthera blephariglottis! Say it a few more times and it will start to roll off your tongue, I promise! The white-fringed bog-orchid MIGHT be one of my …
Sometimes the coolest places are the most unassuming ones. Take Window on the Ossipees, for example. A small dirt parking lot off of busy Route 16. A covered picnic table …
We are on the hunt for Malaxis unifolia! Green Adder’s Mouth. Tiny. Elusive. Ranked S2 in New Hampshire, Vermont, and Massachusetts, S1 in Connecticut and Rhode Island. We are getting …