I had all but given up on the reappearance of my very favorite annual wildflower, jimsonweed, which usually appears in the yard and garden by early June.
Category: Features
Carrboro-born business ‘spreads the word’
David Iberkleid believes in the power of information – so much so that he helps bring all sorts of information to 72,000 Spanish-speaking people every day.
FLORA: They have stories to tell
I don’t think a day goes by that I don’t reflect on Weaver Street Market staff member Teresa Hutson’s response in February.
FLORA: Carolina lily update and hot-pink wildflower sighting
Accompanied by a dozen Citizen readers on July 4, I revisited the Carolina lilies on Occoneechee Mountain.
FLORA: A teaching moment
The Carrboro Farmers’ Market annual Tomato Day this Saturday is a great teaching moment.
Discovering symmetry in sound and design
“Think of a kaleidoscope,†Wes Lachot says in explaining how he sees his work, describing notes and chords and architectural blueprints.
FLORA: Water’s edge botany
After months and months, I finally got the kayak out on the water a couple weeks ago.
FLORA: Searching for the Carolina lily
Dr. W. C. Coker began the Coker Arboretum as an outdoor classroom to supplement classes on identification and ecology of North Carolina native plants.
FLORA: ‘Lived to learn it!’
“Lived to learn it†was A.J. Bullard’s response when I queried him last week about his accumulated mulberry knowledge.
FLORA: Great Aunt Myra Baldwin’s pressed flower
Six weeks ago I was all set to tell a story about sundrops, Oenothera fruticosa, my identification for Jock Lauterer’s great aunt’s pressed four-petaled, yellow, early-May wildflower in “A Thousand Words.â€
FLORA: Mulberry names go round and round
Citizen reader Mary Ayers recently suggested that I might enjoy seeing a beautiful red-fruited mulberry tree out on Union Grove Road at the edge of a farm field.
FLORA: Discover a new trail on National Trails Day
This Saturday is the American Hiking Society’s 20th National Trails Day.
FLORA: Little blue flowers steal the show
Two blue-flowered beauties have taken center stage during my recent walkabouts.
FLORA: Our spectacular Piedmont
This week I was planning a Flora story inspired by the pressed-flower specimen in Jock Lauterer’s Great Aunt Myra Baldwin’s 1943 diary described in a recent “A Thousand Words.â€
FLORA: Eulogy for Polk Place Persimmon
Flora has annually eulogized the university’s 200-plus-year-old “Polk Place Persimmon.â€