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A tale from the Garden
Teachers raid Big Island to get Squirrel Corn. Article.
Basswood
Our versatile native tree with uses from twine to honey to chocolate.
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Garden Plant of the Week
Selected from the many species in, or historical to, the Garden.
Can you identify this Summer flowering plant by the strange looking flowers?
LEARN ABOUT IT HERE
Link on name goes to more information and photos of this plant.
A Seasonal Poem
I saw the light first from the barn well.
The cold water fell into the night-chilled
buckets,
Deepening to the somber blue of the southern
sky.
Over the new trees, there was a strange light in the east.
The light was dawn. Like a man who has come
home
After seeing many dark rivers, and will soon go
again,
The dawn stood there with a quiet gaze;
Our eyes met through the top leaves of the young ash.
Taken from Getting Up Early by
Robert Bly (b.1926)
Reflections
“One is constantly reminded of the infinite lavishness and fertility of Nature - inexhaustible abundance amid what seem enormous waste. And yet when we look into any of her operations that lie within reach of our minds, we learn that no particle of her material is wasted or worn out. It is eternally flowing from use to use, beauty to yet higher beauty; and we soon cease to lament waste and death, and rather rejoice and exult in the imperishable, unspendable, wealth of the universe, and faithfully watch and wait the reappearance of everything that melts and fades and dies about us, feeling sure that its next appearance will be better and more beautiful than the last."
John Muir, from The Tuolumne Camp, My First Summer in the Sierra.
Garden theme items for sale
Downloadable PDF format books.
1907-1933. Companion book to The Wild Gardener
Martha Crone and the Wild Flower Garden
1933-1958. Companion book to the Crone History
John Moriarty's books are available here until December 31.
Field Guild to the Natural World of the Twin Cities
Minnesota's Natural Heritage
Amphibians and Reptiles in Minnesota
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