The Phytophactor

Zip on over to Quiche Moraine for the latest round up of plant related blogs. As always you'll find some interesting items, including a ...

My colleagues have been very busy, and the things you can learn from them. Horsetails may have been a favored food of sauropods, and cycads...

The Phactor is presently in Snowbird Utah for annual scientific meeting for botanists and those people who study fungi. Copper Canyon is a...

Oops! Missed it. So a belated Happy Birthday, Gregor Mendel. He’d be 187 years old as of July 20th. Here’s Gregor’s actual garden patch in ...

Everyone makes gardening mistakes. A couple of years ago the Phactor planted a plume poppy ( Macleaya cordata ) in what is by no means a s...

As usual Ben Franklin ( Poor Richard's Almanac , 1736) knew what he was talking about. Whew! The Phactor is so happy to be back to the...

Japanese beetles have extended their range into my local portion of Lincolnland in just the past 3 or so years much to the dismay of gardene...

Having just spent the 4th of July weekend trying to get caught up on my garden, a common gardening question that the Phactor has been asked ...

Thanks to Sally, here's another great roundup of plant/gardening/nature related blogs over at Foothills Fancies. (The Phactor wonders, ...

Nobody ever has a botanist around when they need one, and nobody ever thinks they need one. Nobody ever asks a botanist for answers to bota...