https://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2025/11/
A Wandering Botanist: November 2025
Tales of a lover of plants, history and travel.
a wandering botanistnovember
https://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2020/04/names-and-confusions.html
A Wandering Botanist: Names and Confusions
Last month, researching cucumbers ( Cucumis sativa ), I discovered that recent studies show that they were unknown in Europe before the 1...
a wandering botanistnamesconfusions
https://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2015/08/visiting-peruvian-amazon-flooded-forests.html
A Wandering Botanist: Visiting the Peruvian Amazon--Flooded Forests
The Amazon Rainforest! The very name was romantic. And when I was in graduate school in the 1970s, the rainforest was rapidly being cut do...
a wandering botanistperuvian amazonvisitingfloodedforests
https://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2026/
A Wandering Botanist: 2026
Tales of a lover of plants, history and travel.
a wandering botanist
https://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2017/03/
A Wandering Botanist: March 2017
Tales of a lover of plants, history and travel.
a wandering botanistmarch
https://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2023/10/grow-native-plants-part-2-finding-and.html
A Wandering Botanist: Grow Native Plants Part 2. Finding and Growing Native Plants
I wrote last time about the benefits of planting natives in our yards. ( link ) With a few notable exceptions, most American yards, ornament...
a wandering botanistgrow native
https://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2014/05/plant-story-more-reasons-to-like.html
A Wandering Botanist: Plant Story - More Reasons to Like Primroses, Primula
primrose, Primula Primroses, genus Primula , are well-known European spring garden flowers. And wildflowers, since the common English n...
a wandering botanistmore reasonsplantstory
https://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2016/05/
A Wandering Botanist: May 2016
Tales of a lover of plants, history and travel.
a wandering botanistmay
https://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2015/08/grasses.html
A Wandering Botanist: Grasses
Note the grasses. Grasses. They're everywhere, but often unnoticed. Haying a native grassland in Nebraska But if a grass were to t...
a wandering botanistgrasses
https://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2023/03/gardens-and-natives-colorado-is.html
A Wandering Botanist: Gardens and Natives: Colorado is Distinct from the East
I attended Landscaping with Colorado Native Plants conference in February. I came away very conscious of all the differences in gardening be...
a wandering botanist
https://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2022/06/thinking-about-insects.html
A Wandering Botanist: Thinking about Insects
We need to revise our attitude toward insects. It is probably fair to say we've waged war on insects this last half-century in the United S...
a wandering botanistthinking aboutinsects
https://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2024/11/teasel-dipsacus-fullonum-once-important.html
A Wandering Botanist: Teasel, Dipsacus fullonum, Once an Important Tool
Teasels, Dipsacus fullonum and Dipsacus sativus , in the teasel family, Dipsacaceae, for centuries were essential to the clothing industr...
a wandering botanistdipsacus fullonumteaselimportanttool
https://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2025/06/ecuador-galapagos-ii-plants.html
A Wandering Botanist: Ecuador: The Galapagos II. Plants
On my recent trip to the Galapagos I joined park rangers on hikes, and usually I was a laggard. I kept stopping to see the plants. The rest...
a wandering botanistthe galapagosecuadoriiplants
https://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2021/07/under-forest-in-boulder-colorado.html
A Wandering Botanist: Under the Forest in Boulder, Colorado
I walked in the forest of the hills above Boulder Colorado in mid-June.
a wandering botanistunder theforestbouldercolorado
https://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2018/03/
A Wandering Botanist: March 2018
Tales of a lover of plants, history and travel.
a wandering botanistmarch
https://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2013/06/
A Wandering Botanist: June 2013
Tales of a lover of plants, history and travel.
a wandering botanistjune
https://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2022/02/
A Wandering Botanist: February 2022
Tales of a lover of plants, history and travel.
a wandering botanistfebruary
https://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2019/09/denver-area-spectacular-native-plants.html
A Wandering Botanist: Denver Area--Spectacular Native Plants
The Garden Bloggers Fling, a conference of people who blog about gardens, was in Denver in June 2019. What do garden bloggers do at a confer...
a wandering botanistdenver areaspectacularnativeplants
https://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2022/01/
A Wandering Botanist: January 2022
Tales of a lover of plants, history and travel.
a wandering botanistjanuary
https://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2014/05/
A Wandering Botanist: May 2014
Tales of a lover of plants, history and travel.
a wandering botanistmay
https://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2019/12/
A Wandering Botanist: December 2019
Tales of a lover of plants, history and travel.
a wandering botanistdecember
https://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2025/08/
A Wandering Botanist: August 2025
Tales of a lover of plants, history and travel.
a wandering botanistaugust
https://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2025/08/travel-cloud-forest-in-ecuador.html
A Wandering Botanist: Travel--Cloud Forest in Ecuador
I visited the cloud forest of Ecuador in May. As mountains everywhere rise, they block the movement of clouds. Day after day, clouds full of...
a wandering botanistcloud foresttravelecuador
https://khkeeler.blogspot.com/2018/06/
A Wandering Botanist: June 2018
Tales of a lover of plants, history and travel.
a wandering botanistjune