Oak Life Lesson: Coordination helps you breed with your neighbors & overload your hungry enemies. Bigger nuts are cool, but not best.

Why does New Zealand seem to have a dense and stark forest strip, with the trees ending sharply compared to other global regions?

Making and testing natural inks & dyes from fruits and flowers in PNW.

Differences between WA Erysimum species- Erysimum capitatum vs arenicola.

Edible or lethal plants. Comparing and admiring common camas with death-camas, and a few native plant relatives in the PNW.

Oak apples aren't a fruit, they're a gall from a wasp and they may not be edible but you can use them for home-made ink.

Buds buds everywhere and not a bulb to eat.  Spring is popping up, literally, as represented by bulbs popping up their plump flower heads from still cold damp soil to catch the first pollinators of the year (maybe) and reward us visual creatures for surviving the depths of winter’s chill. But, um... can you eat those? Basically, I wouldn’t. Many species of our beloved spring flowering bulbs are quite toxic Not just because they’re better off finishing their bloom, fe

Ever seen blue balls on a bee? Possibly not what you think, but they do get them. Blue bee-balls, and a bee in a 'bad way'. Bee...

The chill is in the air, the winds are kicking up, and sky has it's blanket of leaky grey all ready to tuck us in for the winter. Fall...