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On a gale-force day we visited Fort Tilden. The autumn olives are still heavy with fruit, their season now in its fifth week. For some reaso...

October is about the Boston ivy doing its final best. It is a misunderstood vine (at least in the US, where it is often neurotically ripped ...

There is the glorious scent of passionfruit in our living room. The big, purple-shelled fruits were grown in California by a small, family-o...

Autumn in the hood.  The first street trees to take color are green ash,  Fraxinus pensylvanica .  I knew that this was an ash tree but the ...

October is upon us.  We sip drinks now under a long, soft twilight. The terrace lights are twinkling at 6pm, no longer switched on when we s...

Black nightshade [Published annually, since 2016, with occasional updates.] Late, late summer, and the black nightshade is ripe, on cue....

The first green yuzu fruit are on the young, potted tree on our terrace.  Citrus x juno  is a cross between a wild citrus and a mandarin-ty...