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amateuranthecologist:
Hi everyone! this is where I'll post links to my latest blog post! It's a blog about native plants in SW Oregon, [rock] gardening, growing plants from seed, pollinators, pollinator plants, ecology, and pollination ecology. It's a wide variety of topics, plants are usually at the center of the discussion, but sometimes I diverge and focus solely on pollinating insects. I was originally inspired by Ian Young's Bulb Log. Have a look, there's something for everybody!

Stout Grove is an old growth redwood grove located in the Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park in California near the Oregon border. I hiked (more like a strolled) the trail recently and did some botanizing. Even though there were few flowers, it was plant-geek nirvana!

Check it out:

http://amateuranthecologist.blogspot.com/2015/09/stout-grove-adventure-in-botanical.html

Tony Willis:
We have been there three times over several years,once in early spring to see the trilliums in flower and twice more in July when the Clintonia andrewsiana was looking superb.

It is a magical place.

amateuranthecologist:
The Amateur Anthecologist  - Autumn and the Full Moon

Hi,

Just posted a group of seemingly unrelated plant photos and stories from the past few weeks to my blog. The photos didn't really fit into other posts, but I still wanted to share them.

Autumn is my second favorite season, if not for the relief from the heat of Summer (in the 100F range here in SW Oregon), then for the unique flora of the garden and growing wild. Leaves change color, bees prep for hibernation. Wind. And the clear nights recently gave me a good photo opp! But the red moon was too dark to get a good pic.

See the post here:

http://amateuranthecologist.blogspot.com/2015/10/autumn-and-full-moon.html

Thanks!

amateuranthecologist:
Last August, I wrote about an obscure yet hard to miss SW Oregon native Trichostema lanceolatum, vinegar weed. The name refers to the strong smell, which to me smells more like gasoline (aka "petrol"). On warm days the odor wafts through the air, detected long before the source is sighted. The plants are small, annual, reaching a height of around 8", but they carpet the ground in areas they are well adapted to (poor soil, I imagine). See the original post, updated with some new bits of information:

http://amateuranthecologist.blogspot.com/2015/08/trichostema-lanceolatum.html

amateuranthecologist:
Echinacea is one of my favorite herbaceous perennials, and here I show the last flower of the year (and how to collect seed of Echinacea). Also see some of the other things blooming now in my garden, including my Nicotiana (not for smoking). Many bulbs are also appearing, new leaf growth and seeds germinating. I'm growing around 30 pots of seed this year, mostly bulbs, and a few are germinating now. Then I discuss the confusion I faced with Scilla latifolia (not to be confused with Scilla autumnalis ssp. latifolia)!

Newest post is about the few things that continue to bloom in my recently neglected garden. Follow the link:

http://amateuranthecologist.blogspot.com/2015/10/flowers-seeds-and-bulbs-in-autumn.html

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