Twigs and Branches - 2023

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.


2023 postings

December 2023 Curiosity About a Plant Name - the Live-forever.

December 2023 Are Honeycombs as Perfect as They Look?

December 2023 Why do Icicles Have Their Shape?

December 2023 Eloise's Identification Issues with White Oaks

December 2023 Monarch Threatened with Fiery Death - the ancient oak escapes.

November 2023 - The ESA at Fifty

November 2023 - Do Plants Hear?

November 2023 - Eloise Talks to Plants

November 2023 - The Rarer Rubus Compared

September 2023 - Friends Annual Meeting

September 2023 - The Wildflower Garden in October

September 2023 - Fall Gardening for Bees

September 2023 - The Wildflower Garden Perimeter Changes

August 2013 - School Classes in the Garden

August 2013 - The Wildflower Garden in September

August 2013 - Beneficial Wasps

August 2013 - Black Saddlebags - have you seen one of these dragonflys

August 2013 - American Lotus in the Garden

July 2023 - Friends Annual Meeting Guest Speaker

July 2023 - The Wildflower Garden in August

July 2023 - The story behind the name - Riddell's Goldenrod

July 2023 - Fruit for rooters - the Hog Peanut

July 2023 - Happenstance at the welcome kiosk - A woman walks by . . .

June 2023 - Kids Visits to the Garden Need Support

June 2023 - The Wildflower Garden in July

June 2023 - Lilies of the Garden

June 2023 - The Butler Memorial Association

June 2023 - The Hottest Summer - 1936

May 2023 - Kids Visits to the Garden Need Support

May 2023 - The Wildflower Garden in June

May 2023 - Lady's-slippers of the Garden

May 2023 - The Indigos

May 2023 - What is green, fast growing, small but with a big future? A look at Duckweed.

April 2023 - The Wildflower Garden in May

April 2023 - Where Does the "Spring Green" Come From?

April 2023 - A New Invasive - Lesser Celandine

April 2023 - Eloise Butler Memorial: April 1933 - Her last 10 Days

March 2023 -Looking forward to the Garden opening.

March 2023 -Our native Hazelnuts

March 2023 - Eloise Butler's last Dilemma

February 2023- Garden Improvements

February 2023 - Plant saponin and jumping worm control

February 2023 - The Pileated Woodpecker

February 2023 - A Harbinger of Spring - the Pasque Flower

January 2023 - Garden Improvements - shed roof.

January 2023 - What are Saponins and are they good for you?

January 2023 - Eloise Butler's Buggy Accident and Hospital Stay

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