Twigs and Branches - 2024

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.

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