Sunday, August 16, 2015

Weekend at Mountain Lake Station, Part I

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Yellow pinesap ( Monotropa hypopitys ) VNPS had announced a weekend at UVA's Mountain Lake Biological Station in southwestern Vir...
Saturday, August 8, 2015

Yellow Fringed and Other Orchids in Fort Valley

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Yellow Fringed Orchid ( Platanthera ciliaris ). A month after the VNPS walk in Fort Valley I returned to see how the Yellow Fringed Orc...
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Saturday, August 1, 2015

Shale Violet and New Works

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Shale Violet ( Viola sororia ), watercolor, 11" x 15". Here is the finished piece, finally -- Shale Violet, photographed un...
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Saturday, July 18, 2015

Fort Valley Plant Walk

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Yellow False Foxglove ( Gerardia flava ). A couple of weeks ago the Piedmont Chapter of VNPS met for a walk at a site in nearby Fort V...
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Saturday, July 4, 2015

A Work in Progress

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Shale Violet ( Viola sororia ) , watercolor 11"x 14". I'm currently working on this small painting of wild violets I foun...
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Sunday, June 21, 2015

Botanica 2015 Reception and Awards

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Certificate recipients at Brookside Gardens. Last Sunday was the opening reception for Brookside Garden's "Botanica 2015: Art ...
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Sunday, June 7, 2015

Glorious Roses

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Rose 'New Dawn' with Clematis 'Etoile Violette.' In late May my garden explodes with bloom, and roses, my mother's ...
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Saturday, May 23, 2015

The Regal Iris

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It's that time of the year when irises bloom. I can't think of a more regal flower, the natural inspiration for the emblem of ...
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