THE FRINGED GENTIAN™

A PUBLICATION OF FRIENDS OF THE WILD FLOWER GARDEN, INC.

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Current Issue of The Fringed Gentian™

Summer 2023. Vol. 71 No. 2

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The next issue will be published in fall 2023.

Feature articles

The Ovenbird- wild spaces; Using invasive plants for food - Wild Parsnip; Should invasive plants be eliminated?; Revisiting the wild bee survey; the president's notes of getting children to the Garden; Susan Wilkins discusses volunteer efforts; New fencing and shrub planting at the Garden - FIPAG contributions; Donor support and memorials.

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Spring 2023. Vol. 71 No. 1

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Using invasive plants for food - Garlic Mustard on the menu; Garden Curator's notes on the Christmas Bird Count; Special rare, endangered and deceiving spring plants in the Garden; The Roberts Bird Sanctuary; president's experiences with the Christmas Bird Count; donor and volunteer notes; Garden connections with visitors and volunteers in 2022.

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Fall 2022. Vol. 70 No. 3

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Highlights of Dr. Lee Frelich's talk at the Friends Annual Meeting - “Could climate change turn Minnesota into the new Kansas?”; the Green Darner Dragonfly; Inside the Quaking Bog; re-discovery of a lost Twayblade in the Garden; president's letter on the use of plant identification guides; Garden Curators notes on 2022 Garden staff and the new entry kiosk; donor support information; new Board of Directors; historical numbers for Friends support for the Garden.

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Summer 2022. Vol. 70 No. 2

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Spring 2022. Vol. 70 No. 1

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Feature articles

What It's Like to be a Bird - What they do and why.

Warblers in the Garden - The May migration. Photos.

The Trilliums at Eloise Butler - A view of those in the Wildflower Garden, now and historical.

Re-elected MPRB Commissioners.

25 years ago - a Friends project completed.

Jennifer Olson's President's Letter: Rosalie Edge and Hawk Mountain.

Spring Garden Notes by Curator Susan Wilkins.

Donor support page. Donations and memorials.

Spring Garden open hours.

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Fall 2021. Vol. 69 No. 3

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Feature articles

Caught on Camera - the busy life of Garden inhabitants after dark.

Get to know our Region Better - John Moriarty's Field Guide to the Twin Cities.

Our Oak Trees - Will their dominance last?

There's Something in the Water - Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities

New Directors

Jennifer Olson's President's Letter; 2021 How the Garden is doing by Curator Susan Wilkins; Donor support page, donations and memorials.

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