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12/01/10
A little holiday cheer from Terrain
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11/30/10
Tired of the concrete jungle? A garden is a tap a way…
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11/18/10
The many ways to caulk a plant to wood…
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11/12/10
Red and yellow and orange, oh my!
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10/21/10
Cranesville Swamp – just like a quick visit to Canada
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10/09/10
Phallus Impudicus: A Shameless Impersonator
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10/07/10
QE II Botanic Park, Grand Cayman.
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9/30/10
If People Were Taught to Fear Wetlands, People Can Be Taught to Love Wetlands
It's an Izel World
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9/04/10
Seen While Out and About
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9/03/10
Parking Lot Garden
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How cool is this for an idea? GardenSpace is a way for your iphone to to map out all publicly accessible gardens near your current location. Currently this only works in NYC- which is a shame. I often find myself wishing for a little green space when I travel. And really that is when this app would be at it most useful, because when you travel you are unlikely to stumble upon cool little gardens without a local friend to guide you. Or this app.
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Yesterday’s dreary cold rain has me taking stock of my indoor plants and more to the point, my friends’ plants. READ MORE
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Today I went to an ol’ favorite garden, one that’s like comfort food. I’ve been going to Brookside Gardens since I was about 3 feet tall. Fall color was the order of the day, and Brookside had it in spades…
On a hot muggy day, Cranesville Swamp on the border between Maryland and West Virginia is a fun treat. It was a bit cooler than the area around Deep Creek Lake where I had been staying. I was intrigued into going based on Nature Conservancy‘s description of the area: READ MORE
Phallus impudicus, common stinkhorn © Claudio Vazquez 2010
I was introduced to mushroom hunting at age 6, long before I even liked eating those little fungal buggers. At the time, I lived in the French countryside just across the border from Geneva, Switzerland. My parents rented half of a farm house. The other half was occupied the by the owner and farmer, Charles Favre (no relation with the quarterback). He had, of course, been mushrooming his whole life and so had his father, and his father’s father…and it was he who taught me the intricacies of mushroom hunting. READ MORE
I just got back from a visit to Grand Cayman. Calling it a visit might actually be an overstatement seeing that I was there for a grand total of about four hours. Yes, this was a pit stop on one of those floating jail cells called cruise ships. I will not dwell on how this all came to pass, suffice it to say that this method of travel is not my cup of tea. READ MORE
Eastern Shore wetland © Claudio Vazquez 2010
Across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and just an hour drive from our nation’s capital, you enter a unique landscape. The gentle hills of the mainland have all but disappeared and been replaced by flatlands where farms and random development are punctuated by the remnants of once vast wetlands.
Maryland Dept of Natural Resources sign that explains why they don't grow grass in some public areas.
I wish more parking lots would do this, it so much prettier than the usual grass and over mulched tree look.
Wildflower meadow in parking lot.
