Cryptoforestry

  Weeds and Aliens (1961) by Edward Salisbury (the man had more honorary titles than I have teeth) is the absolute classic book that pio...

Without a countryside to go to the plant watchers of West Berlin looked within the city and urban ecology was born out of the surpri...

  Polemochores, 'seeds distributed by dispute'.  Quote from .

The island Surtsey arose from the sea, south of Iceland, in a volcanic eruption that took from 1963 to 1967 to complete. Like Krakatau it...

"Never shall I forget my first sight of the Somme in summer-time. I had left it mud, nothing but water, shell-holes and mud—the most ...

I had completely forgotten about this until I reread it recently. It's from Aldo Leopolds 'Sand County Almanac' (1949). Neighbou...

 " Looking for Ways to Beat the Weeds " is a recent article in the NYT by Carl Zimmer that looks at the way agricultural plants c...

Like in 2012 (plus overview ) I will try to record all species of wild plants that I find growing in my street (excluding grasses and mosse...