LOOKING AND LEARNING AT MICHIGAN WILDFLOWER FARM By Ruth Oldenburg, WORC Communication Chair A hearty THANK YOU to Esther Durnwald and her crew at Michigan Wildflower Farm (MWF)! On June 19, over 30 Wild Ones and friends walked through the perfectly planted farm fields in Portland, about 40 minutes from Grand Rapids. What a pleasant evening […] Continue reading "LOOKING AND LEARNING AT MICHIGAN WILDFLOWER FARM"
NATIVES TO KNOW American Spicebush, Lindera benzoin By Joyce Tuharsky, WORC Member Consider spicing up your landscape with native American Spicebush, and you can spice up your morning tea as well. A deciduous shrub, Spicebush is a member of the laurel family. It grows 6–12 foot tall, has many trunks, and spreads by roots. The leaves […] Continue reading "NATIVES TO KNOW: American Spicebush (Lindera benzoin)"
Hart’s Tongue Fern, Asplenium scolopendrium L. var. americanum By Joyce Tuharsky, WORC Member The Niagara Escarpment is a limestone ridge that stretches in a huge arc from New York through Ontario, upper Michigan, Wisconsin, and into Illinois. It was formed from lime mud deposited from corals on an ancient sea floor 430 million years ago. The ridge that […] Continue reading "Natives to Know: Hart’s Tongue Fern"
Native versus Nativar: What’s the Difference and Does It Matter? By Linda Shuster, WORC member One dilemma that native plant gardeners face is how and where to acquire plants. As Heather McCargo notes in her article for Maine’s Wild Seed Project (https://wildseedproject.net/2022/02/navigating-the-nurseries-how-to-find-native-plants/), the number of small growers of nursery stock of any kind has shrunk […] Continue reading "Native versus Nativar: What’s the Difference and Does It Matter?"
MANOOMIN: THE STORY OF WILD RICE IN MICHIGAN * Notes from Sr. Lucille Janowiak OP with additions by Linda Shuster, WORC Members I do not recall paying much attention to the growing of Manoomin (wild rice) in Michigan, but I paid attention to researcher and author, Barbara J. Barton, as she shared her findings and stories […] Continue reading "Manoomin: The Story of Wild Rice in Michigan – Program Recap"
