The early summer wildflower season has arrived. Before long, alongside roadways and woodland edges, some of our more robust native plants will be flowering. By “robust” I mean high growing and stout.

I first saw cardinal flowers growing in a drainage ditch along a farm field. Their intense red took my breath away, in part because of their surroundings. This was no well-tended, perennial flower ...

Recently, I received a telephone call from a lady who needed help in identifying a bird that resembled a cardinal, but the colors did not match those for the cardinal pictured in her bird book. She ...

I first saw cardinal flowers growing in a drainage ditch along a farm field. Their intense red took my breath away. The beauty of those cardinal flowers was not in their profusion of blooms but in the ...