Whorled Peas and Other Botanical Musings

Some pictures of spring in Portland. From the Hoyt Arboretum Magnolia Polygala chamaebuxus From Bovees Nursery (you can buy stuff from their...

We don't get much Fall over here on the West Coast because we spend our winter looking at green rather than grey. None the less, I do mi...

Here's one of my BS tropicals blooming right after it arrived in April. I can't take any credit for these blooms... but they sure ar...

Back in Northern Oregon, I went to visit my population of Cyp montanum on Mount Hood. There was a hot spell known as May here in Oregon and ...

Memorial Day weekend: my favorite weekend of the year. We had a lot of places to visit this year! I'll start with an unlikely event. We ...

In early May, the first Cyps to start blooming are Cyp fasciculatum. I visited this location in South Central Washington which is quite atyp...