There should be a national skunk cabbage day. Skunk cabbage is a wonderful native plant, first to bloom after the witch hazel, the silver maple, and the crocus, as much a symbol of woodland spring as the returning robins. This ancient, lovely and mysterious guardian of the wetlands is a plant about which many lies …
In the Hoyt Street Alley , there are numerous representatives of the conifer clan: arborvitaes, junipers, red cedars, hemlocks, yews (non-native), and white pines. It is only appropriate that the white pine, the Northeast’s dominate pine, also dominates in the alley. It is said that in pre-Columbian times, we had millions of white pines, which were, by …
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Pink smartweed and white fall asters share the October sun, at the edge of a parking lot, with a yellow butterfly. Native asters make great carefree garden plants for a sunny location where their tall status (3′ or more) can be accommodated. Smartweed (polygonum) on the other hand, is horrible. Smartweed, with the folk name …
