The other day looking online we found someone practically giving away a tall cactus. I don't know my cactuses well enough--is this is ...

A " Lazarus species " is a species that has long been thought to be extinct, but then it turns out that someone discovers that t...

The other day we were out by the pawpaw trees and NJ pointed out a few pawpaws that had fallen prematurely.  I picked them up and car...

In late April we left Utah for about a week and went to Washington DC for a conference. During the trip, we went to the National Museum of ...

The pawpaw naturally grows in the eastern United States Meanwhile, the black-chinned hummingbird lives in the western United ...

At the end of April, I walked into the yard one morning and the sun was hitting the pawpaw blossoms just right. What does it mean for the s...

For fairly extensive discussion of pollinating pawpaws, see this blog post from a few years ago. For a few pics from this year's work ...