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.
2024 postings
Nov/December 2024 - Winter Bird Count
Nov/December 2024 - Fencing Completed
Nov/December 2024 - Colorful Capsules
Nov/December 2024 - Christmas at Malden
October 2024 - Garden Projects Update - One done, one to come.
October 2024 - Problems with Chickadee Hybrids
October 2024 - A White Lobelia
October 2024 - Cranberries of the Wildflower Garden
September 2024 - Friends annual meeting and guest speaker
September 2024 -Nests of paper
September 2024 -Bee Survey Completed
September 2024 -A Favorite Aster
September 2024 -Brilliant Muscle-wood
August 2024 - Native flowers needed now
August 2024 - Friends meeting guest speaker announced.
August 2024 - New vistas around the Wildflower Garden
August 2024 - It's not an artichoke, its a sunflower
August 2024 - Show-off Goldenrods
August 2024 - The pollinator meadow shines
July 2024 - Utility Building Construction
July 2024 - A Vagrant for the Garden - Butter and Eggs.
July 2024 - How do Hummingbirds hover?
July 2024 - Catchflys and Campions
July 2024 - A Friend of the Wildflower Garden - Betty Bridgman
June 2024 - Working near to Old Andrew
June 2024 - Greenery improves many things. The need for green around us.
June 2024 - A Queen of Summer - Queen of the Meadow.
June 2024 - Long-leaved Bluet - an historical Garden plant
June 2024 - The first fence - what a struggle it was
May 2024 - Construction proceeds for storage buildings.
May 2024 - The two Jacob's Ladders
May 2024 - June is for wild roses
May 2024 - The well dressed man in the Garden - who was he?
April 2024 - New construction at the Garden
April 2024 - An Eloise Butler Orchid - the Round-leaved Orchid.
April 2024 - Water in the Wetland
March 2024 - Nostalgia: Snow in April
March 2024 - The life of a Redwing
March 2024 - Eloise plants - what? Which Draba was it?
March 2024 - The Norway Maple
February 2024 - Another decrease in winter monarchs
February 2024 - The last days of the Great Medicine Spring
February 2024 - Eloise Butler and early attempts to protect wildflowers
February 2024 - 1974 - the end of peaceful winters in South Wirth
February 2024 - Pussy Willow now showing signs of spring
January 2024 - 100 Years of Bird Banding
January 2024 - The Dutchman's Pipe
January 2024 - A re-discovered area in Wirth Park - clearing the understory reveals a new pond.
January 2024 - New Winter Activities with Garden Naturalists.