Carrion Flower, Smilax herbacea

Weekly Wildflowers – Bay Bridge Landing Park, Brunswick, ME

We hit here at a very high tide (it was a new moon yesterday), but I finally remembered to bring the correct footwear, so quite a few pictures were taken on a nice wade. While the Kennebec is tidal, this is far enough upstream that it’s no longer at all brackish, so the water was

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Ferncliff Copper dahlia

Garden Notes

Here’s the last of the dahlias that hadn’t bloomed since my last post. They prove an interesting point. My least favorite color is orange, but I’m absolutely a sucker for a good orange flower. Look at the shading on both of these! Hurricane is the one I grew from seed several years ago, and he’s

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