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Fat fingerlimes, very close to being fully ripe. On the same branches there are dozens of tiny fruit that will be ripe only in many months...

While we were in Maine I collected apples.  Apples from the lichen-hung trees near the house.  Those were yellow with a blushing cheek. The ...

Another happy surprise on the terrace this late summer has been the Gomphocarpus - a plant I used to know as Asclepias, a milkweed. It is Af...

The fragrant white moonflowers ( Ipomea alba ) have given us more pleasure than I could have expected. When I garden, half of me is an ecolo...

I am organizing a different kind of walk for October 24th in Prospect Park: A Trash Forage. Instead of learning about edible plants, we will...

Seaside Solidago sempervirens , on a quiet afternoon with dunes and waves and birds. This solidago (a.k.a. goldenrod) is late to bloom, and ...

October is around the corner, and that means autumn, for real.  In an unreal year. I visited the New York Botanical Garden  recently because...