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, …
Quick and dirty.
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 peek in the woods….
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 …
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 …
Harvesting wild cranberries and, of course, moss
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 …
A few finds during the winter in New Hampshire
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 …
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 …
Bottle dumps, lichens and orchids, oh my.
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 …
Field Guide Review: Wildflowers of New England, Timber Press Field Guide
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 wildflowers…and wildlife
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 …
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 …
Our secret spot! I spy Platanthera blephariglottis!
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 …
Window on the Ossipees
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 …
Carnivorous sundew. Oh, and some Malaxis unifolia.
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 …
