Day 5: Bleeding Heart
Bleeding Heart (Dicentra eximia). This is a cultivar, not the native variety. Taken in my Philadelphia neighborhood with Camera+ and also edited with Camera+
Day Four: Wood Poppies
Wood Poppy (Stylophorum diphyllum) taken in my Philadelphia backyard. Taken and editied with Camera+
Day 3: Invasive Chinese Wisteria
Invasive Chinese Wisteria (Wisteria sinensis) outside Trader Joes in Ardmore, PA. Given a few years this plant will certainly pull down that arbor.
Healing the Wounds to Wildlife: Loss of Ecological Processes
Ecological processes are better known as Ecosystem Services, and we are putting at risk many of these crucial services through our constant quest for yet another Walmart, Starbucks, and shopping center. Habitat loss, fragmentation, and degradation due to human action, as well as the introduction of exotic and invasive species are the number one reasons [...]
The Beauty of the Desert
I have to confess, I had so many misconceptions about the desert before I started grad school in Arizona. Being a Pennsylvania girl who finds her home in the woods, and having never visited the desert before, I was simply astounded by how wrong I was about so many things. Take for instance the heat. Everyone [...]
Lady Bird Johnson, Environmentalist
I became fascinated by the dedication of Lady Bird Johnson, first lady of the United States, and her passion for conservation, beautification of our highways and cities, and her love of native plants. As first lady, Lady Bird Johnson advocated strongly for the Head Start program and the Civil Rights Act, but at heart she was [...]
Return to Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
I’m so excited to have been able to return to visit the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center this year. The area around Austin, Texas is certainly beautiful, and the Wildflower Center’s devotion to the conservation of the native plants of this area is commendable, and visitors are fully educated about this mission before even entering the property [...]
Healing the Wounds to Wildlife, Part 4: The Wound of Exotic Species
Invasive and exotic species by human introduction are fast destroying wildlife habitat across the country. One need only visit the Florida Everglades to see this in action. Burmese Pythons, Melaleuca, Old World Climbing Fern, Brazilian Pepper, Apple Snails, Walking Catfish, and so many more invasive species are destroying habitat used by birds and so many other [...]
