Irises aren't just in all the colors of the rainbow, they seem to also be every scent of the cornucopia- a nose rainbow. But do their colors match their smell? Sniff for yourself and read all about them.

Summer time means melons. All sorts of melons these days, not just the classic "water" so many of us ate and spat from the patio on a hot day. Personally I was very disappointed when none grew out of my belly like my older sibling said they would if I ate a seed. I swallowed several seeds hoping to be a human watermelon farm. Ideas and traditions of youth, eh? As things change, so do the melons available and I have recently discovered a cute tasty fun one that feeds my lov

medical traits and ID of wild shelf mushroom red belted conk (Fomitopsis pinicola)

*(sweaty, even while standing still because… heat domes & such) It’s a berry Pacific Northwest kind of life in summer time here. The sun...

I will never forget being puzzled by a large tree, trying to ID it during a plant monitoring project but the leaves were all too high up...

What's the best way to get rid of weeds? Eat them, of course! And we are hitting prime dandelion season, so it's time to get digging. ...

There are dozens of flavors for vodkas on the liquor shelves, some fruity, some floral. As delightful as a toasted marshmallow vodka can...

Junipers are not the trees you think of associated with the drizzly Pacific Northwest. But they are old friends from home in the much...

Cottonwood trees (Populus balsamifera ssp. trichocarpa, P. deltoides and B. fremontii) have a love-hate relationship with people. Some...