The Phytophactor

  A friend once brought a picture of this plant to me and asked why don't the flowers ever open.  An interesting question surely.  TPP o...

TPP doesn't know if he's late with the last FFF or early for the next one.  Guess the blogs could have been numbered but that wou...

One of the more interesting, but not the showiest, summer wild flowers in our garden is the bottle gentian ( Gentiana andrewsii ). A student...

Fall is a distinct flowering season in the prairie community, but few people see the little gems that hide down among the tall grasses. The...