The Phytophactor

Free speech is a difficult concept for many people, particularly those people who feel entitled to say anything they please because they are...

Two new magnolias, a yellow-flowered butterflies hybrid and an anise magnolia ( M. salicifolia ) were both in flower for the first time.  ...

Near the end of semesters, especially the spring one, all sorts of social events get piled up on one another, and then there's spring st...

Anytime the Phactors get garden lettuce prior to May it's considered to be a successful start to the gardening season.  It's hard to...

A late spring always truncates TPP's plant taxonomy class, but what can you do?  Well, today TPP guided his class to a seep spring, a ...

Well, it's been a late spring, and our field work has finally begun. This sort of sounds silly, but the first job is to actually find ou...

Wow, has it been that long?  Yes, the 1st Earth Day was 44 years ago, a whole academic career ago, and at times you wonder what was accompli...

No one really knows, especially what's on this one's mind. Mind? This is an interesting article about people who study animal int...

One of my colleagues always used to kid around about having packed dehydrated Jack Daniels for field work. And now someone has invented a po...

TPP is bushed, tired, not politically inept. Yes, hole not whole, because that's what he did today; TPP dug holes. That's the bloody...