Zooming – June 2026
/The slideshow below features pictures from my home…and two trips to St. Louis. And they were all taken with the phone! Enjoy the gardens and butterflies!
Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
/My second field trip associated with the Missouri Master Naturalist state conference was to the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. The tour guide summed up the mission of the center was to ‘feed the world’ – more formally: improve the human condition through plant science. Photography is not allowed in the work areas of the building – so the only picture I took inside the building was in the entry area where there is a display of flags of countries around the world that the center has engaged.
The building is recent enough to have features that make it easy to reconfigure electrical equipment (outlets in the ceiling!) and appealing with lots of natural light. There are a lot of green houses and controlled plant growth environments.
Much of the research is focused on striving to address current plant growth issues plan for a hotter/drier future. One example was with the cassava plant; their research has created a plant that is more resist to viruses that often reduce production and it is on the cusp of being rolled out in African countries most dependent on the cassava as a food staple.
The organization is very conscious of preserving and renewing our environment as well.
Outside the building – they have recreated a native Missouri prairies….with a lot of plants I recognized!
Lake Springfield Boathouse Garden – June 2026
/I am learning to recognize weeds more easily as I’ve volunteered to help maintain the Lake Springfield Boathouse garden….and it is also a great way to observe the garden plants as they develop through the weeks. I walked around and took pictures last week before I started work.
The sloped garden has a wild look – but not as wild as a prairie. It becomes a background for special event pictures, and the Boathouse terrace looks over it to the lake. It needs to look good from every direction! There are rock paths through the slope to allow for easier maintenance.
It is a great place for some macro photography of native wildflowers.
eBotanical Prints – May 2026
/Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in May – all are available for browsing on Internet Archive. 19 of the books are a continuation of the Carnivorous Plant Newsletters; there are 4 volumes per year so this month includes 2008 to 2012; I’ll continue browsing this periodical in June.
My list of eBotanical Prints books now totals 3,363 eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here.
Click on any sample image from May’s 20 books to get an enlarged version…and the title hyperlink in the list below the image mosaic to view the entire volume where there are a lot more botanical illustrations to browse.
Enjoy the May 2026 eBotanical Prints!
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.37:no.2 (2008) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2008
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.37:no.3 (2008) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2008
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.37:no.4 (2008) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2008
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.38:no.1 (2009) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2009
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.38:no.2 (2009) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2009
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.38:no.3 (2009) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2009
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.38:no.4 (2009) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2009
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.39:no.1 (2010) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2010
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.39:no.2 (2010) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2010
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.39:no.3 (2010) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2010
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.39:no.4 (2010) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2010
COLLECTIO PLANTARUM QUAE IN DIVERSIS EUROPAE, ASIAE, AFRICAE, ET AMERICAE * Morandi, Giambattistia * sample image * 1737
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.40:no.1 (2011) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2011
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.40:no.2 (2011) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2011
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.40:no.3 (2011) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2011
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.40:no.4 (2011) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2011
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.41:no.1 (2012) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2012
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.41:no.2 (2012) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2012
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.41:no.3 (2012) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2012
Carnivorous plant newsletter v.41:no.4 (2012) * California State University, Fullerton. Arboretum * sample image * 2012
eBotanical Prints – November 2025
/Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in November – all are available for browsing on Internet Archive. The publication dates span 360 years (1600 to 1960) for these 20 volumes.
There are two series this month:
3 volumes of Fungi by M.F. Lewis (The Internet Archive abstract: Relatively little is known of Miss Lewis, but the quality of drawings, spanning over 40 years, shows her to have been an extremely skilled artist and mycologist)
8 volumes of Bothalia, a scientific journal from the National Herbarium at the University of South Africa
My list of eBotanical Prints books now totals 3,243 eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here.
Click on any sample image from November’s 20 books below to get an enlarged version…and the title hyperlink in the list below the image mosaic to view the entire volume where there are a lot more botanical illustrations to browse.
Enjoy the November 2025 eBotanical Prints!
Flowering plants from the gardens of Lord Bute at Luton Hoo * Taylor, Simon * sample image * 1770
A collection of engraved and etched flower plates * Monnoyer, Jean Baptiste * sample image * 1680
Three studies of trees * Farrer, Henry * sample image * 1900
Variae ac multiformes florum species appressae ad vivum et aeneis tabulis incisae * Robert, Nicolas * sample image * 1600
Autumn leaves of America. Coloured from nature * Robbins, Ellen * sample image * 1870
The shape, skeleton and foliage of 32 species of Trees * Cozens, Alexander * sample image * 1786
Illustrations of orchidaceous plants * Bauer, Franz Andreas * sample image * 1830
Collection of 52 watercolour drawings of Madagascar orchids * Cowan, William Deans * sample image * 1880
Fungii Vol 1 * Lewis, M.F. * sample image * 1902
Fungii Vol 2 * Lewis, M.F. * sample image * 1902
Fungii Vol 3 * Lewis, M.F. * sample image * 1902
An Album of Flowers * German School * sample image * 1630
Bothalia - V4 Part 2 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1941
Bothalia - V5 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1950
Bothalia - V4 Part 3 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1948
Bothalia - V6 Part 1 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1951
Bothalia - V6 Part 2 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1954
Bothalia - V6 Part 2 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1956
Bothalia - V7 Part 1 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1958
Bothalia - V7 Part 2 * National Herbarium, University of South Africa, Pretoria * sample image * 1960
eBotanical Prints – May 2025
/Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in May - available for browsing on Internet Archive. The Descriptions of orchid genera by Fritz Kraenzlin series that I started back in May was completed with another 6 volumes in this month’s eBotanical Prints list. There are volumes 1 and 3 of Rudolf Koch’s Das Blumenbuch; I discovered had browsed the second volume back in 2018 and it was already on the list! The oldest volume on the list is Florilegium novum hoc est by Johann Theodor Bry published in 1611; its sample image is the only one that is not in color!
My list of eBotanical Prints books now totals 3,123 eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here.
Click on any sample image from May’s 20 books below to get an enlarged version…and the title hyperlink in the list below the image mosaic to view the entire volume where there are a lot more botanical illustrations to browse.
Enjoy the May 2025 eBotanical Prints!
Descriptions of orchid genera 1880-1908 V6 * Kraenzlin, Fritz * sample image * 1908
Descriptions of orchid genera 1880-1908 V7 * Kraenzlin, Fritz * sample image * 1908
Descriptions of orchid genera 1880-1908 V8 * Kraenzlin, Fritz * sample image * 1908
Descriptions of orchid genera 1880-1908 V9 * Kraenzlin, Fritz * sample image * 1908
Descriptions of orchid genera 1880-1908 V10 * Kraenzlin, Fritz * sample image * 1908
Descriptions of orchid genera 1880-1908 V11 * Kraenzlin, Fritz * sample image * 1908
Das Blumenbuch V1 * Koch, Rudolf; Kredel, Fritz * sample image * 1929
Das Blumenbuch V3 * Koch, Rudolf; Kredel, Fritz * sample image * 1929
Florilegium novum hoc est * Bry, Johann Theodor * sample image * 1611
The spirit of the woods : illustrated by coloured engravings * Hey, Rebecca * sample image * 1837
Planches de physiologie végétale * Errera, Leo Abram; Laurent, E. * sample image * 1897
Autumnal Leaves * Robins, Ellen; Graves, Gertrude M. * sample image * 1868
Garden Album and Review : an illustrated monthly magazine of Horticulture. Vol. 1, Nos. 1-5 * Weathers, John (editor) * sample image * 1906
Beautiful garden flowers for town and country * Weathers, John * sample image * 1904
Beautiful flowering trees and shrubs for British and Irish Gardens * Weathers, John * sample image * 1904
Nouveau Duhamel V1 * Loiseleur-Deslongchanps, L.A. * sample image * 1812
Nouveau Duhamel V2 * Loiseleur-Deslongchanps, L.A. * sample image * 1812
Nouveau Duhamel V3 * Loiseleur-Deslongchanps, L.A. * sample image * 1812
Nouveau Duhamel V4 * Loiseleur-Deslongchanps, L.A. * sample image * 1812
Nouveau Duhamel V5 * Loiseleur-Deslongchanps, L.A. * sample image * 1812
Springfield Botanical Garden – February 2025
/It was not a great day to go to the Springfield Botanical Gardens – cloudy and chilly….but I wanted to try out my new Nikon Coolpix P950 camera. My husband did the driving to the garden and he brought along his camera too even though he didn’t use it.
It was not a day for landscapes but there was enough light to get some zoomed pictures of winter plants – dried flowers from last summers’ hydrangeas, some evergreens with enough color variation and texture to be interesting, berries that the birds are reluctant to eat, and dried grasses.
I saw one witch hazel and it was booming. This is its normal time to bloom so not exactly a sign of coming spring.
There were some bulbs peeping from the mulch….which seems more aligned with the notion that spring is coming.
There were some succulents and prickly pear cactus that seemed in better shape than I expected after the very low temperatures a few weeks ago.
It was a good first field trip with the camera…a learning experience without much pain. I somehow managed to not charge the battery completely so it was depleted very quickly…and I initially couldn’t see through the viewfinder with my glasses on….but my husband helped fix that problem with a slight adjustment on a knob that had no equivalent in my previous camera.
I am ready to try some bird photography later this week!
eBotanical Prints – November 2024
/Twenty more books were added to my botanical print eBook collection in November - available for browsing on Internet Archive, New York Public Library Digital Collections, or Botanicus. They cover a range of botanical topics: medicinal plants, botanical link in literature (Milton), particular taxonomic groups, and fruit as well as plants of places (Italy, Russia, and Korea (7 volumes!)). Three volumes (1 by Cornut and 2 by Presl) were about North American plants from preserved plants collected by others – the authors never visit the New World. Overall - the 20 books were published over almost 300 years (1635-1933).
My list of eBotanical Prints books past the 3,000 volumes milestone in November – now totaling 3,003 botanical eBooks I’ve browsed over the years. The whole list can be accessed here. Click on any sample image below to get an enlarged version…and the title hyperlink in the list below the image mosaic to view the entire volume.
Enjoy the November 2024 eBotanical Prints!
Picturesque botanical plates * Thornton, Robert John * sample image * 1807
American medical botany * Bigelow, Jacob (artist) * sample image * 1820
Sorimachi 409 * Spencer collection * sample image * 1746
The Flowers of Milton * Giraud, Jane Elizabeth (Lithographer) * sample image * 1846
Pomona Italiana * Gallesio, Giorgia (illustrator); Capurro, Niccolo (pubisher) * sample image * 1839
Iac. Cornvti ... Canadensivm planatarvm, aliarumque nondum editarum historia. * Cornut, Jacques Philippe * sample image * 1635
Eidodendron: views of the general character and appearance of trees foreign and indigenous connected with picturesque scenery * Burgess, Henry William (artist); Hullmandel, Charles Joseph (printer) * sample image * 1827
Flora Rossica * Pallas, Peter Simon * sample image * 1788
Reliquiae Haenkeanae V1 * Presl, Karel Borivoj; Haenke, Thaddaus * sample image * 1833
Reliquiae Haenkeanae V2 * Presl, Karel Borivoj; Haenke, Thaddaus * sample image * 1835
Hymenophyllaceae :eine botanische Abhandlung * Presl, Karel Borivoj * sample image * 1843
Tentamen Pteridographiae * Presl, Karel Borivoj * sample image * 1836
The Hardy Catalpa * Record, Samuel James * sample image * 1906
Flora Sylvatica Koreana Pt 11 Caprifoliaceae * Nakai, Takenoshin * sample image * 1921
Flora Sylvatica Koreana Pt 16 Araliaceae and Cornaceae * Nakai, Takenoshin * sample image * 1927
Flora Sylvatica Koreana Pt 17 Elæagnaceæ, Alangiaceæ, Daphnaceæ, Flacourtiaceæ et Ternstrœmiaceæ * Nakai, Takenoshin * sample image * 1928
Flora Sylvatica Koreana Pt 18 Piperaceæ, Chloranthaceæ et Salicaceæ * Nakai, Takenoshin * sample image * 1930
Flora Sylvatica Koreana Pt 19 Ulmaceæ et Moraceæ * Nakai, Takenoshin * sample image * 1932
Flora Sylvatica Koreana Pt 20 Bambusaceæ, Myricaceæ, Juglandaceæ, Magnoliaceæ * Nakai, Takenoshin * sample image * 1933
Flora Sylvatica Koreana pt. 21 Aristolochiaceæ, Lardizabalaceæ, Berberidaceæ, Pittosporaceæ, Malvaceæ, Empetraceæ, Urticaceæ * Nakai, Takenoshin * sample image * 1933
Identifying Woody Plants (Month 2)
/The Identifying Woody Plants field class I am taking at Missouri State University has met 5 more times since my last post about the field sessions on the campus.
I am continuing to take pictures of items in the classroom before class:
An opened Maclura pomifera (Osage orange) fruit
Some Quercus macrocarpa (Bur oak) acorns
An herbarium page showing Tilia americana (American Basswood) fruit which we have seen in the field, but my pictures were not very good.
Cuttings from two plants were brought in and we were asked to ID them based on our notes – with the hint that the first one had milky sap (hard to see since it had been cut):
Morus alba (white mulberry) – a non-native that is frequently seen as a ‘weed’ tree and Vitis (grape).
Recently the walk from the parking lot to the classroom building has been full of late blooming pollinator plants and fall foliage.
The one session where we stayed on campus added some new trees to our list:
Quercus bicolor (Swamp white oak)
Sassafras albidum (Sassafras)
Carya ovata (Shagbark hickory)
Quercus lyrata (Overcup oak)
We also saw some review trees and I got better pictures of Celtis occidentalis bark (Rough hackberry)
And some add odd growth of a Liriodendron tulipifera (tulip/yellow poplar). The trunk of the tree was growing at a slant rather than straight upward and it had small branches coming out relatively close the ground.
The hikes on campus and further afield have been more pleasant this past month because the temperatures have been cooler. There have been no rainy days in the field either!
Previous posts about Identifying Woody Plants field class
eBotanical Prints – November 2023
/Twenty-four more books were added to the botanical print collection in November – available for browsing on Internet Archive. More than half the publications this month contain color images; I’m always pleased when I find new-to-me botanical books with images like these.
The publication range for this group is 1727-2012; it is interesting the think about how the technology behind publication of books such as these changes over that 200+ years.
The whole list of 2,761 botanical eBooks can be accessed here. The list for the November 2023 books with links to the volumes and sample images is at the bottom of this post.
Click on any sample images in the mosaic below to get an enlarged version. Enjoy the November 2023 eBotanical Prints!
Medical botany; or, illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias: Comprising a poular and scientific account of poisonous vegetables indigenous to Great Britain V1 * Stephenson, John; Churchill, James Morss; Burnett, Gilbert Thomas * sample image * 1834
Medical botany; or, illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias: Comprising a poular and scientific account of poisonous vegetables indigenous to Great Britain V2 * Stephenson, John; Churchill, James Morss; Burnett, Gilbert Thomas * sample image * 1834
Medical botany; or, illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias: Comprising a poular and scientific account of poisonous vegetables indigenous to Great Britain V3 * Stephenson, John; Churchill, James Morss; Burnett, Gilbert Thomas * sample image * 1834
Medical botany; or, illustrations and descriptions of the medicinal plants of the London, Edinburgh, and Dublin pharmacopoeias: Comprising a poular and scientific account of poisonous vegetables indigenous to Great Britain V4 * Stephenson, John; Churchill, James Morss; Burnett, Gilbert Thomas * sample image * 1834
Flora and pomona, or, the British fruit and flower garden * McIntosh, Charles * sample image * 1829
On buds and Stipules * Lubbock, John * sample image * 1899
George Engelmann :botanical notebook 38 : Yucca (Agavaceae) * Engelmann, George * sample image * 1851
On Welwitschia :a new genus of Gnetaceae * Hooker, Joseph Dalton * sample image * 1864
Annales Musei botanici lugduno-batavi V1 (1863) * Miquel, Fredrich Anton Wilhelm (editor) * sample image * 1863
Annales Musei botanici lugduno-batavi V2 (1866) * Miquel, Fredrich Anton Wilhelm (editor) * sample image * 1866
Annales Musei botanici lugduno-batavi V3 (1867) * Miquel, Fredrich Anton Wilhelm (editor) * sample image * 1867
Annales Musei botanici lugduno-batavi V4 (1869) * Miquel, Fredrich Anton Wilhelm (editor) * sample image * 1869
Cycadeae quaedam americanae, partim novae * Miquel, Fredrich Anton Wilhelm * sample image * 1851
Monographia cycadearum * Miquel, Fredrich Anton Wilhelm * sample image * 1842
Monographia generis Melocacti * Miquel, Fredrich Anton Wilhelm * sample image * 1840
Stirpes Surinamenses selectae * Miquel, Fredrich Anton Wilhelm (compiler) * sample image * 1851
Botanicon parisiense * Aubriet, Claude; Boerhaave, Herman; Vaillant, Sebastien; Verbeek, H.; Verbeek, J.; Wandelaar, Jan * sample image * 1727
Botanical review, or the beauties of flora * Donovan, E. * sample image * 1790
Botanical Report * Eduran, Elias; Hilgard, Theod. C. * sample image * 1855
Astragalogia, nempe astragali, biserrulae et oxytropidis * Candolle, Augustin Pyramus de; Didot,; Garnery, Joann. Bapt.; Redoute, Pierre Joseph * sample image * 1802
Botanique (atlas from Astolabe Expdeition 1837-1840) * Hombron, Jacques Bernard; Decaisne, Joseph; Dumont d'Urville, Jules-Sébastien-César; Jacquinot, Charles Hector; Montagne, Jean François Camille * sample image * 1845
Text-book of structural and physiological botany * Thome, Otto Wilhelm; Bennett, Alfred William * sample image * 1877
Khawa karpo :Tibetan traditional knowledge and biodiversity conservation * Moseley, Robert K.; Salick, Jan * sample image * 2012
Advances in legume biology * Stirton, C.H.; Zarucchi, Jame Lee * sample image * 1989
eBotanical Prints – March 2023
/Twenty more books were added to the botanical print collection this month and most are about orchids: 19 volumes of the Australian Orchid Review from 2012 to 2015. I picked sample images that demonstrated the publications’ photography and drawings. I’ll continue browsing more volumes in April! The very first volume on the list is the only one not from Internet Archive; it is a recently published book - Pollinator-Friendly Parks - that I am using as a reference as I reduce the ‘turf’ in my yard. It is available free from the Xerces Society.
The whole list of 2,592 botanical eBooks can be accessed here. The list for the March 2023 books with links to the volumes and sample images is at the bottom of this post.
Click on any sample images in the mosaic below to get an enlarged version. Enjoy the March 2023 eBotanical Prints!
Pollinator-Friendly Parks * Frischie, Stephanie; Code, Aimee; Shepherd, Matt; Black, Scott; Hoyle, Sarah; Selvaggio, Sharon; Laws, Angela; Dunham, Rachel; Vaughan, Mace * sample image * 2021
Australian Orchid Review 2015 (February - March) * Orchid Society of New South Wales * sample image * 2015
Australian Orchid Review 2015 (April - May) * Orchid Society of New South Wales * sample image * 2015
Australian Orchid Review 2015 (June - July) * Orchid Society of New South Wales * sample image * 2015
Australian Orchid Review 2015 (August - September) * Orchid Society of New South Wales * sample image * 2015
Australian Orchid Review 2015 (October - November) * Orchid Society of New South Wales * sample image * 2015
Australian Orchid Review 2015 - 2016 (December - January) * Orchid Society of New South Wales * sample image * 2016
Australian Orchid Review 2014 (April - May) * Orchid Society of New South Wales * sample image * 2014
Australian Orchid Review 2014 (June - July) * Orchid Society of New South Wales * sample image * 2014
Australian Orchid Review 2014 (August - September) * Orchid Society of New South Wales * sample image * 2014
Australian Orchid Review 2014 (October - November) * Orchid Society of New South Wales * sample image * 2014
Australian Orchid Review 2014 - 2015 (December - January) * Orchid Society of New South Wales * sample image * 2015
Australian Orchid Review 2013 (February - March) * Orchid Society of New South Wales * sample image * 2013
Australian Orchid Review 2013 (April - May) * Orchid Society of New South Wales * sample image * 2013
Australian Orchid Review 2013 (June - July) * Orchid Society of New South Wales * sample image * 2013
Australian Orchid Review 2013 (August - September) * Orchid Society of New South Wales * sample image * 2013
Australian Orchid Review 2013 (October - November) * Orchid Society of New South Wales * sample image * 2013
Australian Orchid Review 2013 - 2014 (December - January) * Orchid Society of New South Wales * sample image * 2014
Australian Orchid Review 2012 (February - March) * Orchid Society of New South Wales * sample image * 2012
Australian Orchid Review 2012 (April - May) * Orchid Society of New South Wales * sample image * 2012
eBotanical Prints – December 2022
/Another 20 botanical books in December. I started out the month with 12 volumes about mosses of North America published by A. J. Grout; the Wikipedia entry says that he taught at Curtis High School in Staten Island from 1908 to 1930…and evidently kept his primary focus on mosses for his entire adult life.
This month also includes 2 books by Agnes Arber (a British botanist) and one by her husband Edward Alexander Newell Arber (a botanist/paleontologist). The Wikipedia article on Agnes reflects the challenging research situation for female academics of her time.
George Vasey was a British-born American botanist of the US Department of Agriculture. Three of his books about grasses finish out the December botanical print books.
The whole list of 2,532 botanical eBooks can be accessed here. The list for the December 2022 books with links to the volumes and sample images is at the bottom of this post.
Click on any sample images in the mosaic below to get an enlarged version. Enjoy the December 2022 eBotanical Prints!
Moss Flora Of North America Volume I Part 1 * Grout, A. J. * sample image * 1936
Moss Flora Of North America Volume I Part 2 * Grout, A. J. * sample image * 1936
Moss Flora Of North America Volume I Part 4 * Grout, A. J. * sample image * 1939
Moss Flora Of North America Volume II * Grout, A. J. * sample image * 1940
Moss Flora Of North America Volume II Part 1 * Grout, A. J. * sample image * 1933
Moss Flora Of North America Volume II Part 2 * Grout, A. J. * sample image * 1935
Moss Flora Of North America Volume III * Grout, A. J. * sample image * 1906
Moss Flora Of North America Volume III Part 1 * Grout, A. J. * sample image * 1928
Moss Flora Of North America Volume III Part 2 * Grout, A. J. * sample image * 1931
Moss Flora Of North America Volume III Part 3 * Grout, A. J. * sample image * 1932
Moss Flora Of North America Volume III Part 3 * Grout, A. J. * sample image * 1934
Moss Flora Of North America Volume II Part 3 * Grout, A. J. * sample image * 1935
Water Plants - A study of aquatic angiosperms * Arber, Agnes * sample image * 1920
Herbals, their origin and evolution; a chapter in the history of botany, 1470-1670 * Arber, Agnes * sample image * 1912
Devonian floras; a study of the origin of Cormophyta * Arber, Edward Alexander Newell; Arber, Agnes Robertson * sample image * 1921
The ferns (filicales) V1 * Bower, Frederick Orpen * sample image * 1928
Plant-life * Hall, Charles Albert * sample image * 1915
Illustrations of North American Grasses V1 - Grasses of the Southwest * Vasey, George * sample image * 1891
Illustrations of North American Grasses V2 - Grasses of the Pacific Slope * Vasey, George * sample image * 1893
The agricultural grasses of the United States * Vasey, George * sample image * 1884
Carrollton Yard…before a first frost
/It was fun to see so many flowers in the Carrollton yard – blooming into late October since there had been no frost. I enjoyed the colors and blooms realizing a lot will change soon.
Things could look very different by the time I am there in November.
I always enjoy photographing the red yuccas. My favorite picture from my time in Carrollton in late October is the flowers and seedpod together. The flowers might not get enough time to complete the cycle into seed pods, but the plants have already had a good year producing seeds.
Red Cabbage
/My rule of thumb is to always buy the more colorful version of veggies when they are available – so I always buy the red cabbage rather than green (unless the red is not available)! The extra nutrients in the red cabbage make it worth the little bit of extra cost. However - red cabbage always looks more purple than red to me.
The outer leaves come off easily enough – to roll and then cut into thin slivers for slaw, but the leaves quickly are so tightly wrapped together that they cannot be separated; I cut cross sections through the head and then cut the pile on the board until the pieces are small enough for slaw. I am always fascinated by the patterns of the white and red/purple in the cross sections.
Of course, I never use the whole head at once…and I’ve saved pieces for a few days to see how the patterns change as they age. They shrink a little as they dry…and the purple color may deepen! The white part gets bumpy and begins to look spongy!
eBotanical Prints – February 2022
/21 botanical print books browsed in February and added to the list. The month continued the browsing of Peter Henderson’s “Everything for the Garden” catalogs that I started in January. It’s easy to image people looking at these catalogs in the winters of the first half of the 1900s and planning their gardens. There are books dedicated to conifers and lilacs, two from Yokohama Nursery, and two about wild gardens. The last two books in February were the start another series…the rest will be in the March group.
The whole list of 2,331 botanical eBooks can be accessed here. The list for the February 2022 books with links to the volumes and sample images is at the bottom of this post.
Click on any sample images in the mosaic below to get an enlarged version. Enjoy the February eBotanical Prints!
Everything for the garden, 1926 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1926
Everything for the garden, 1928 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1928
Everything for the garden, 1932 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1932
Everything for the garden, 1934 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1934
Everything for the garden, 1936 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1936
Everything for the garden, 1938 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1938
Everything for the garden, 1940 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1940
Everything for the garden, 1945 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1945
Everything for the garden, 1948 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1948
Everything for the garden, 1950 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1950
Everything for the garden, 1951 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 1952
Everything for the garden, 1952 * Peter Henderson & Co * sample image * 952
Hortus Veitchii : a history of the rise and progress of the nurseries of Messrs. James Veitch and sons * Veitch, James Herbert * sample image * 1906
Veitch's manual of the coniferae * Kent, Adolphus Henry; Veitch, James Herbert * sample image * 1900
The Lilac * McKelvey, Susan Delano * sample image * 1928
Descriptive catalogue of flowering, ornamental trees, shrubs, bulbs, herbs, climbers, fruit trees (1909-1914) * Yokohama Ueki Kabushiki Kaisha * sample image * 1914
The Yokohama Nursery Co., Ltd - 1898 * Yokohama Ueki Kabushiki Kaisha * sample image * 1898
Taming the wildings * Durand, Herbert * sample image * 1923
The Wild Garden * Robinson, William * sample image * 1883
Refugium botanicum V1 * Saunders, William Wilson; Reichbach, Heinrich Gustav; Baker, John Gilbert; Fitch, W. H. * sample image * 1869
Refugium botanicum V2 * Saunders, William Wilson; Reichbach, Heinrich Gustav; Fitch, W. H. * sample image * 1872
eBotanical Prints – December 2021
/20 botanical print books browsed in December and added to the list. The month started with 8 volumes of Edward Joseph Lowe’s Ferns: British and Exotic from the mid-1800s. Later in the month there were 7 books on New York fruits and vegetables (cherries, peaches, pears, plums, small fruits, vegetables, and grapes) from the early 1900s with U.P. Hedrick as the primary author. The range of publication dates was from 1788-1938…150 years.
The whole list of 2,289 botanical eBooks can be accessed here. The list for the December 2021 books with links to the volumes and sample images is at the bottom of this post.
Click on any sample images in the mosaic below to get an enlarged version. Enjoy the December eBotanical Prints!
Ferns: British and Exotic - V1 * Lowe, Edward Joseph * sample image * 1856
Ferns: British and Exotic - V2 * Lowe, Edward Joseph * sample image * 1858
Ferns: British and Exotic - V3 * Lowe, Edward Joseph * sample image * 1858
Ferns: British and Exotic - V4 * Lowe, Edward Joseph * sample image * 1858
Ferns: British and Exotic - V5 * Lowe, Edward Joseph * sample image * 1858
Ferns: British and Exotic - V6 * Lowe, Edward Joseph * sample image * 1857
Ferns: British and Exotic - V7 * Lowe, Edward Joseph * sample image * 1859
Ferns: British and Exotic - V8 * Lowe, Edward Joseph * sample image * 1860
A natural history of new and rare ferns * Lowe, Edward Joseph * sample image * 1871
Sertum Anglicum, seu, Plantae rariores quae in hortis juxta Londinum * Brugiere, J.G.; Didot, Petri Francisci et al * sample image * 1788
Supplement to The ferns of southern India and British India * Beddome, R. H. * sample image * 1876
Burgess flower book for children * Burgess, Thornton Waldo * sample image * 1938
The Cherries of New York * Hedrick, U.P. et al * sample image * 1915
The peaches of New York * Hedrick, U.P. et al * sample image * 1917
The pears of New York * Hedrick, U.P. et al * sample image * 1922
The Plums of New York * Hedrick, U.P. et al * sample image * 1911
The Small Fruits of New York * Hedrick, U.P. et al * sample image * 1925
The Vegetables of New York * Hedrick, U.P.; Tapley, William Thorpe * sample image * 1928
The Grapes of New York * Hedrick, U.P.; Tapley, William Thorpe * sample image * 1908
Chrysanthemums * Stevenson, Thomas * sample image * 1912
eBotanical Prints – November 2021
/20 botanical print books browsed in November and added to the list. There were several topics that show up several times in the list this month: grasses and grasslands, language of flowers, rock gardens, ferns, and plants in particular geographical areas if the US. The age range of the publications is from 1808 to 2007…just under 200 years.
The whole list of 2,269 botanical eBooks can be accessed here. The list for the November books is at the bottom of this post.
Click on any sample images in the mosaic below to get an enlarged version. Enjoy the November eBotanical Prints!
Rich Grasslands for Missouri Landowners * Missouri Department of Conservation * sample image * 2007
The Floral forget me not; A gift for all seasons * H.F.Anners (publisher) * sample image * 1854
The Language of flowers : an alphabet of floral emblems * T. Nelson and Sons (publisher) * sample image * 1858
The Language and poetry of flowers : with beautiful illustrations * Geo. A. Leavitt (publisher) * sample image * 1867
Collectio plantarum tam exoticarum, quam indigenarum, cum delineatione, descriptione culturaque earum V3 * Wendland, Johann Christoph * sample image * 1808
The Gentians of Canada, Alaska, & Greenland * Gillett, John M. * sample image * 1963
Plant studies for artists, designers, and art students * Haite, George Charles * sample image * 1886
Alpines and bog plants * Farrer, Reginald John * sample image * 1908
My Rock Garden * Farrer, Reginald John * sample image * 1907
The English Rock Garden * Farrer, Reginald John * sample image * 1919
Hortus gramineus Woburnensis or, an account of the results of experiments on the produce, and nutritive qualities of different grasses, and other plants, used as the food of the more valuable domestic animals - 1816 * Sinclair, George * sample image * 1816
Hortus gramineus Woburnensis or, an account of the results of experiments on the produce, and nutritive qualities of different grasses, and other plants, used as the food of the more valuable domestic animals - 1826 * Sinclair, George * sample image * 1826
Flora of West Virginia * Millspaugh, Charles Frederick * sample image * 1892
An illustrated guide to the flowering plants of the middle Atlantic and New England states * Stevens, George Thomas * sample image * 1910
Toadstools at Home * Hastings, Somerville * sample image * 1906
The vines of northeastern America : fully illustrated from original sketches * Newhall, Charles Stedman * sample image * 1897
The shrubs of northeastern America * Newhall, Charles Stedman * sample image * 1897
Our Native Ferns V1 * Lowe, Edward Joseph * sample image * 1865
Our Native Ferns V2 * Lowe, Edward Joseph * sample image * 1865
A Natural History of British Grasses * Lowe, Edward Joseph * sample image * 1858
Patuxent Research Refuge – Misc.
/Of course, there are other things besides waterlilies, milkweeds and goldenrod to see this time of year at the South Tract of Patuxent Research Refuge. I did some experimental photography with some grass seed heads and asters…liked the results.
The cattails are exploding with fluff. If it doesn’t float away fast enough it becomes matted around the stalk.
Many plants are going to seed in the meadow.
In the forest there are hits of color…just a few leaves at this point. Green still dominates.
There was an old jumble of trunks…some upright and others leaning over…with shelf fungus in profusion.
There is a bird blind around a collection of feeders but I wasn’t quiet enough to walk up to it without all the birds taking flight. I managed to notice finches on the feeders and mourning doves below.
Sometimes something appears that I don’t expect – like this fire hydrant in the meadow. It isn’t that far from the visitor center but far enough that I would have thought one closer would be more useful and it was surrounded by wild vegetation – a little surprise. It was rusted enough that I wondered if it was still functional.
Overall – every time I got to the refuge, I notice something that I haven’t seen before!
Springfield Yard and Xeriscape Garden
/Last time I was in Springfield, the priority was getting my daughter moved into a new house – exhausting work. This time I am savoring the yard. I walked around several times….marveling at how beautiful it is, noting a few things that need to be done but nothing critical. It is relatively low maintenance. I am starting to think about the various areas as mini gardens.
The Driveway Garden has two hollies flanking the extra parking area – a male and female. The female tree is full of green berries which will be red by winter…pretty and food for birds as well.
The Back Garden has a dogwood that may be problematic (some dead branches and overall not looking healthy) but underneath the Queen Anne’s Lace is blooming and some other plants (that will also provide food for birds. I’ve been watching a small rabbit nibbling on the plants around the brick patio every morning when I nibble my dark chocolate in the garden room. The hosta plants have already finished blooming. There are some legume type plants that are blooming behind some evergreens and a stand of poke weed that will have purple berries in the fall. There is a wood hydrangea that still has dried flowers from last year along with light grene flower clusters on the ends of this year’s growth. Overall – a lot of shrubs, trees and perennials…very little grass.
The Side Garden has evergreens on one side of the stone walk and ferns on the other. I might move one of the yard chairs to this always shady area.
The Magnolia Garden is under a huge magnolia tree. There was some damage to the leaves from the extreme cold from last winter that I noticed last time I was here but those leaves were dropped and the tree looks wonderfully lush at this point - full of shining green leaves, developing seed pods and waning flowers. There are a few ferns and hosta under the tree. My daughter cleared away the thick layer of magnolia leaves and is planning to encourage (or plant) more of those types of plants under the tree.
The Front Garden is dominated by some big trees. The river birch and oak are the largest. The oak was probably planted when the house was built in the 1950s. Many other houses in the neighborhood have a large oak in the front.
There is also an oak leaf hydrangea between the house and the big trees that is blooming; it’s a great shade loving plant!
We took a walk in the neighborhood to a city park that includes a Xeriscape Garden maintained by volunteers. Kudos to the people that do the work there! It is a mini-botanical garden. The arum seed clusters are attention getting! The variety of plants there would make it worth visiting any time except (maybe) the winter. I was pleased to see that goldenrod was included. There was also some sculpture among the plantings.
Overall – the gardens of the yard and the nearby Xeriscape Garden are something to look forward to see during future visits.
Carrollton TX Yard – Plant Curves
/Sometimes when I look at plants….is see the embedded curves rather than the whole plant:
The spiral in the center of a new leaf
The tight role of another leaf…rather like a tortillon I use for smudging when I make traditional Zentangle tiles
The lazy accordion pleats in a narrow leaf (how did that happen?)
The wrapped petals of a swamp iris poised to open into a flower…overlapping curves within the bud framed by leaves.
