A web of present and past events
These short articles are written to highlight connections of the plants, history and lore of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden with different time frames or outside connections. A web of intersections.
2022 postings
December 2022 - Origin of bird feeding at the Garden
December 2022 - Why Moosewood
December 2022 - Did you know: Bees can use tools
December 2022 - Svalbard Seed Vault
November 2022 - Friends activities: Fall Volunteer Events
November 2022 - Garden history bit: Plants from Isle Royal
November 2022 - Did you know: Bees have fun
November 2022 - An interesting Garden plant - Sneezeweed
October 2022 - Propagation of species by mechanical explosive tension.
October 2022 - Plant census of a small plot
October 2022 - Garden photos from late October.
October 2022 - Eloise Butler gives garden clean-up advice.
September 2022 - A new invasive cattail.
September 2022 - Eloise Butler's last Garden project.
September 2022 - The Garden in late September.
September 2022 - Friends Annual Meeting highlights.
August 2022 - A vaccine for Poison Ivy -
August 2022 - Fountains in the Garden -
August 2022 - The Garden in late August
August 2022 - The Joe-Pye Weeds
July 2022 - Rusty Patched Bumblebee - Background and identification.
July 2022 - The record heat wave of July 1936.
July 2022 - The two queens of Summer in the Wildflower Garden
July 2022 - July Garden highlights.
July 2022 - The Leatherwood and Eloise Butler’s Memorial Tablet - one gone, the other sinking?
June 2022 - White Strawberries - learn why some strawberries never turn red but taste the same as red ones.
June 2022 - Founding of the Friends - 70 years ago.
June 2022 - The Garden in late June
June 2022 - White flowers for summer. Eloise Butler reviews them.
May 2022 - Garden display at Sumner Library
May 2022 - Mosquito Repellant: Old problems in the Garden with mosqitos and solutions.
May 2022 - Eloise Butler consults a Medium:
May 2022 - People flock to see it! - Showy Lady's-slipper.
May 2022 - Visit the Garden - late May highlights.
April 2022 - Hepatica, a favorite early spring ephemeral.
April 2022 - Out of thin air: Can a plant census be done by air sampling?
April 2022: Notes on the Garden opening for the season.
March 16, 2022: Rarities in 3 spring ephemerals: Spring flowers at Eloise Butler that had an historical rarity that could be viewed in the Garden in years past.
March 4, 2022: Jumping Worms - Gardener's beware: A recently arrived invasive pest is making inroads in Minnesota and the Twin City area
February 14, 2022: Update on Black Birding: What some of the Black birders are doing.
February 5, 2022: Do we need another invasive plant pest? A look at Oriental Bittersweet in our area.
January 14, 2022: Do pine cones grow on willows?
January 7, 2022: Social Distancing - it's not so new, and bees adopt it also!