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