Friends of the Wild Flower Garden

Articles from The Fringed Gentian™

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Presidents Letter (pdf file)

Pam Weiner describes winter events and updates us on the Friends efforts to raise money for the Cary George Wetland Project. (150kb file)

Garden Curator Notes (pdf file)

Garden Curator Susan Wilkins describes the fall and early winter work in the Garden and updates on the wetland project. (197kb file)

Family Affair: John and Joan Haldeman. (pdf file)

John and Joan Haldeman, married in the Garden in 1981, reflect on their 30 years together with the Garden. (302kb file)

A Tale of Two Owls (pdf file)

MPRB Naturalist Tammy Mercer explains how our two largest owls, the Barred and the Great Gray, raise their young. (519kb file)

List of donors to the Cary George Wetland Project

Here are a few older articles from the archive

Planting for Winter Interest

Master Gardener Kathy Urberg reviews a few plants that supply winter landscape interest. (2008)

Winter Survival of Warm-blooded Critters

MPRB Naturalist Tammy Mercer writes of how some of the birds and animals survive the winter in the Garden. (Winter 2009)

Final Week of the Season

A photo essay on the unexpected snowfall in mid-October 2009 (Fall 2009)

A Seasonal Poem

Questioning Faces

The winter owl banked just in time to pass
And save herself from breaking window glass.
And her wings straining suddenly aspread
Caught color from the last of evening red
In a display of underdown and quill
To glassed-in children at the window sill.