Tag: Plants
How to Make Simple Plant Markers
Add a little pizzazz to your garden with homemade plant markers you and your kids can create in just a few hours.
I love art...
The Power of Simpson’s Stopper
The orange and red fruit of the Simpson Stopper.
Myricanthes fragrans: Nakedwood Twinberry
I took me about a year to know the Simpson Stopper.
While most people...
The Power of Carpetweed
Note the leaves can be skinny or fat.
When it comes to Carpetweed you need to know only two things: It grows nearly everywhere, or...
Super-plant – the Sea Oxeye
Sea Oxeye: Note the pointed green bracts directly below the yellow blossom. They are key to identification.
There are edible plants, and there are non-edible...
The Power of Gorse
Gorse flowers and thorns, available all year long depending on climate.
Ulex europaeus: Edible Gorse or Furze Pas
Gorse has edible flowers. It also has thorns…...
The Power of Eastern Gamagrass
The showly male flowers of the Eastern Gamagrass.
At grass conferences I have been told more than once that there are no toxic native North...
Top 10 Plants To Grow For Chicken Feed
You might want to consider supplementing your chicken feed with some great plants around your garden. Besides saving you money, these plants sampled here...
Super-plants – the Corn Poppy
The Memorial Poppy, Papaver rhoeas
(Yes, I, too, am a veteran thus on this Memorial Day let us think of friends and relatives and everyone’s...
The Power of Frog Fruit
Frog Fruit was not always called Frog Fruit. Photo by Ron Wolf.
It’s only natural that humans are inventive with something that is uniquely their...
The Power of Chicory
Chicory’s pale blue blosoms are also edible.
Cichorium intybus: Burned to a Crisp
Chicory was not a common plant where I grew up or where I’ve...
Colonial Unit Study + Resources
I’m slowly incorporating more and more of Charlotte Mason’s concepts into our homeschool and in doing so I learned Charlotte Mason did not recommend...
