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  • … Description: Look down into shrubby or woodland areas to spot this migrant flycatcher. …
    Type: Birding
  • … burning and vegetation monitoring. My role includes empowering our seasonal crew in their day-to-day fieldwork.   In my spare time, I lead stewardship workdays at Sante Fe Prairie Nature … restoration is incredibly important, which is why I participate in Skype a Scientist to connect with classrooms around the world.  …
    Type: Staff bio
  • … New! In addition to writing poetry, Emily Dickinson also gardened. She cultivated flowers on her father's property and in the glass conservatory that he added to the family’s home in Amherst, Massachusetts. Explore Dickinson's gardens through excerpts from …
    Type: Item Detail
  • … Botanic Garden $25 nonmember; $20 member Buy Tickets The title of Dr. Sampson’s book— How to Raise a Wild Child: The Art and Science of Falling in Love with Nature —says a lot about how … science communicator believes children learn. Experiences in science and nature are critical to a child’s development, and Sampson helps make that important connection through his new role …
    Type: Event for Calendar
  • … green on top and white underneath, giving the tree a silvery appearance. It grows in full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. Firs are mostly native to mountainous regions, where they grow in rich, acid soil. They are not very tolerant of hot, …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … is a round evergreen conifer that can reach 8 feet in height and width with full sun to partial shade and moderate moisture conditions. The flat, upward-pointing needles are an unusual shade of pale blue-gray. The growth rate is very slow, at two to three inches per year, and the branches grow into irregular patterns. Blooms are …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … shade of mint green. The form is rather irregular when young, and when older will tend to have a flat top. After ten years it can be expected to reach four feet tall and five or six feet wide. White firs are the most tolerant of the firs …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Beautiful five-to-nine-lobed leaves emerge early. The plant grows 18 feet in height with a narrower spread. Use … and does not fade in heat. Fall color is a brilliant clear red. This lovely small tree, native to the Far East, can be grown only in very protected areas if you live in Zone 5. It is an …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … palm is a native of north Africa where it grows in the Atlas mountains of Morocco and Algeria to altitudes of 5000 feet. This palm tree has large silvery-blue fan-shaped frond that have a … tone. This tree is rounded when young but can eventually reach a height and width of 10 to 15 feet. This tree requires very sunny conditions and dryish well-drained soils. It is not …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant
  • … Growing 20 to 30 feet in height, the eastern redbud is an ornamental North American native tree with a rounded habit and branches usually quite close to the ground. It blooms in early spring with cheerful purple-pink, pealike blossoms that appear …
    Type: Garden Guide Plant