Foliosus

Avalanche lily
Really, twice. First was at the end of June: I completely forgot to note it here. I took a photo of Erythronium montanum at the top of Larch Mountain outside of Portland. It was a rainy day, which usually doesn’t make for good hiking, but we were under a thick understory [...]

Once again it seems I owe my thanks to Daniel Mosquin from the UBC Botanical Garden for choosing my photo of Acer japonicum, the japanese maple, for yesterday’s photo of the day. That’s two in two months; we’ll see if I can make a third. If you read his comments I think that [...]

Many thanks to Daniel Mosquin from the UBC Botanical Garden for choosing my photo of Zantedeschia aethiopia, also known as the calla lily, for today’s photo of the day. Woohoo!
For the record, I shot this image in western Australia, where the calla lily is highly invasive and is causing quite a bit of ecological [...]

I can’t resist, this is too good to be true: there is such a thing as an urban cactus. It’s a housing project in Rotterdam, based on a cactus. By placing the balconies as the architects did, every resident gets a double-height outdoor space and more sunlight than they would with a typical [...]

Marionberries from Sauvie Island
Yesterday Sally and I went to Sauvie Island Farms to pick marionberries, and what a bountiful harvest it was. After a few hours with only a couple of minor scratches (those things have thorns!), we weighed in with 23 and a quarter pounds of gorgeous marionberries. When they are super [...]

There’s a new site design! If you look just underneath the search box in the sidebar, you’ll now find a pair of links, titled “Banksia” and “Aeonium.” These allow you to switch between the Banksia and Aeonium layouts. I think that the newer Aeonium layout is more successful, but I love the [...]

Finally, I’ve found a great page with photos of non-flowering plants: Dr. Dennis Walker of Humboldt State University has an online gallery of plant images that focusses mostly on non-flowering plants. It has excellent coverage of ferns and conifers, but very little in the flowering plants. The most interesting part is that many [...]