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February First – winter gardens
Garden Learning has been in hibernation for the last few months. For two reasons one a broken wrist made it hard to type and take pictures but more importantly in Minnesota the ground is white and frozen, the air is … Continue reading
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Tagged beginning seedling, garden journals, grow lights and heat mats, phenology journal
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Spring has sprung – can you name that flower?
Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden in Minneapolis, Minnesota opened last week (April 15th). It means that spring is really here. It may still be chilly but so much warmer that two months ago. It is time to put on your jacket, … Continue reading
Posted in journals, observation, observational drawing
Tagged hepatica, skunk cabbage, snow trillium, trout lily
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Flowers and Bees and Honey
It is summer and the garden is wild with flowers and green plants. The spring rains have made a big difference but we need more than just sun and rain. We need some friends to help our plants along the … Continue reading
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Tagged drawing, journals, science notebooks
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Variations
After looking so closely at our drawings of leaves I started looking at trees not just leaves and noticed that there are lots of things that are the same and different. I noticed that there are many varieties of evergreen … Continue reading
Posted in Garden Learning, journals, science notebook, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged characteristics, journals, science notebook, tree
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Is a Bog the Same as a Swamp?
I know that a swamp and a bog have lots of water, green plants and you really can’t walk in them. Well, unless you are someplace like Theodore Wirth Park in Minneapolis where the quacking bog has a floating walkway. … Continue reading
Our flowers have genes?
The garden has now moved past the early spring flowers. Those flowers are long gone and there are large green leaves and new flowers everywhere. This new group of flowers have characteristics that tell them to bloom in late May … Continue reading
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How do gardens change?
One way a garden changes is by the work people do to care for the garden, another way is by diseases that plants get and then die away. Another way is through storms and tornadoes. On May 22 Eloise Butler … Continue reading
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How are plants different from each other?
After a day of thunderstorms and cold weather in mid May ( well May 16th to be exact) it was surprising to walk through the wild garden and see all the changes. I thought things might not look that different … Continue reading
Posted in Garden Learning, journals, Reflections
Tagged characteristics, variation in plants
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Answering Questions: how do I learn the names of plants?
Last week my journal ended with lots of questions and pictures of plants with no names. So how do you learn the names of plants in a wild garden? I discovered there are many ways at Eloise Butler. One way … Continue reading
How do I remember all the things I see in the garden?
Keeping a Nature Journal Today was cold and very windy when I got to the garden. I was sure I would not see much change since it had only been a week and the weather had been cold and not … Continue reading
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Tagged gardens, journals, wildflowers
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