Blue Jay Barrens

In late October I came across an industrious group of Harvester Ants.  These ants of the genus Pheidole exhibit dimorphism, having two diffe...

Eighteen years ago, as the first act of creating a water garden, I dug a large hole near my front porch. Approximately 55 cubic yards of m...

The Draba cuneifolia have been in bloom for over six weeks now.  They went unscathed through a week long bout of cold weather that inclu...

The Blue Jay Barrens Draba cuneifolia have set a new record for early blooming.  First full blooms appeared on February 26, more than tw...

Is it too early in the season to begin talking about Draba cuneifolia ?  I didn’t think so.  We are into the third growing season for Dra...

Two years ago, I planted seeds of the Spider Milkweed, Asclepias viridis , in one of the garden beds, with the intent that the plants wou...

Here we are again with two of my favorite plants, Leavenworthia uniflora and Draba cuneifolia . These particular plants are some that ar...

Blue Jay Barrens has never had an abundance of early spring wildflowers, and as the deer population increases, those that were here years...