Twigs and Branches - 2025

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.


2025 postings

October - Update to the Wildflower Garden entrance

October - The North Meadow. - Uncovering the past

October - Salvaging plants and restoring land

October - The slow flower movement and why it is important.

October - Historical photo

September - Friends annual guest lecture - October 14

September - What happens to Bald Eagles rehabilitated from Lead Poisoning?

September - Blueing the Hillsides

September - Do plants learn, remember or make decisions?

September - Growing the Wild Poinsettia

September - Historical photo - wild poinsettia 1952

August 2025 - Eloise and Martha have a dismal August - Eloise finds a solution.

August 2025 - Plants of the Kabekona visit

August 2025 - FIPAG has a new name

August 2025 - Bird treats from an overlooked plant - American Spikenard

August 2025 - Historical photo - cardinal flowers - 1948

July 2025 - MPRB celebrates The Friends

July 2025 - Eloise Butler's late summer plant review

July 2025 - Now is the time to transfer spring ephemerals

July 2025 - Morning glories of the fields

July 2025 - A lack of modern tools

July 2025 - Historical photo - upland hillside 1953

June 2025 -A milkweed for shade

June 2025 -Eloise Butler's summer plant review

June 2025 -Clovers of the prairie

June 2025 -The first Wildflower Garden visitor handout

June 2025 -Controlling spread from early bloomers

June 2025 -Historical photo - Bird's foot violet bed 1950

May 2025 - Tornados of 100 years ago

May 2025 - Dogwoods now in flower

May 2025 - Early summer wildflowers for a shady garden

May 2025 - An unusual loosestrife

May 2025 - Did you know . . .

May 2025 - Historical - photo - wetland 1947

April 2025 - Spring ephemerals webinar

April 2025 - Wattles in Wirth

April 2025 - Newest and shortest sunflower

April 2025 - False Rue Anemone - avoiding identification confusion

April 2025 - 50 years of footprints - a path down the hillside

April 2025 - Historical photo - Snow Trillium 1952

March 2025 - Drastic Monarch decline on West Coast

March 2025 - Handrails, Owls & Mud - then & now

March 2025 - When the Garden Opens . . .

March 2025 - Wisdom is a Mother Again

March 2025 - Did You Know . . . .

March 2025 - Historical photos - winter scenes 1913 and 1933

February 2025 - Winter Programs - one more month

February 2025 - Eloise and the Agassiz Association

February 2025 - New signs in the Park

February 2025 - When the Garden Opens . . .

February 2025 - Historical photo - Garden Office 1956

January 2025 - Garden histories

January 2025 - The Dead Tree of Winter

January 2025 - FIPAG 2024 - A great year

January 2025 - Looking Forward to Spring

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Selections published in 2024

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