What’s in a name? Or, who keeps changing these scientific names?!
The binomial (Genus + species) used for identifying all species, including plants, is very useful and clear. Each species can have only one scientific…
Tag: wildflowers
Preparing for 2013
We packed the plants away this past week for the winter, covering and insulating many of them in windrows to protect them from…
Alpine wildflowers – a little quiz!
July and August in the nursery are slower times – very little plant propagation and a lot of watering – so it’s a…
Wildflower quiz!
I made time last week to venture up to Colockum Pass above Wenatchee. There is a rough road leading to this area at…
A key shrub for butterflies
If you want to attract butterflies to your landscape you’ll want to have as rich a diversity of native plants as possible, and…