Category Archives: Ecology-Biodiversity-Integration

A healthy environment starts with a healthy human making the best of what is available and adding to what is possible.

Flexibility and Stability:Wild Apple

Posted on April 23, 2024 by Biologicalenrichment

Malus pumila var. niedwetzkyana I received this seed from an overseas arboretum collection many years ago. It is a white flowering form of a normally red flower and red flesh crabapple. I only had one tree of it at the … Continue reading →

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The Species Pear: Balancing Act

Posted on April 22, 2024 by Biologicalenrichment

If you dare to look into the taxonomy of pears, you will find some treasures hidden in the mountains in France far outside cultivation. These are not “escaped” pears but subspecies that someone in taxonomy has gone to the trouble … Continue reading →

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The Oregon Grape Holly

Posted on April 21, 2024 by Biologicalenrichment

This particular species of broadleaf evergreen is part of a broad range of species as well as hybrids used as ornamental landscape plants. One of my ‘seedy’ friends sent me several types of seeds harvested from older arboretum collections. I … Continue reading →

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Perennial Solutions to Annual Problems

Posted on July 26, 2015 by Biologicalenrichment

One of the constant challenges when faced with any horticultural endeavor is finding ways to eliminate or greatly reduce plants that are competing with your crop plant.  Here are a few examples of ways to enhance what nature has already … Continue reading →

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Wood is Good:The dream of the American Chestnut

Posted on November 12, 2014 by Biologicalenrichment

It was only by accident that I found an American chestnut tree one summer while doing yard work for a little extra money in my senior year in college.  The dried burrs I found beneath it made a great ornament … Continue reading →

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