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.
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 - Historical - photo - wetland 1947
April 2025 - Spring ephemerals webinar
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