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Those Unruly, Vexing, Delightful Vines: Midwest Natives with Attitude and Impact

Yes! vines can be exasperatingly aggressive: it’s their nature. Even those that grow in shade are always seeking sunlight, and in their q...

Blue State

Blue barely describes a jay’s feathers: the soft ozone blue of its crest and mantle, the jewel-toned panes - lapis, sapphire, turquoise -...

Milkweeds for Monarchs and Other Pollinators

Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) and Butterflyweed (Asclepias tuberosus) keeping company in an old field. A monarch butterfly nectarin...

The Green Way: A New Curbside Composting Service in B-town

Green Camino curbside composting service (greencaminocompost.com) It’s a splendid Sunday morning of newly-arrived hummingbirds and blosso...

Native Viburnums: Form and Function in the Landscape

In a finely-timed spring ritual, a vibrant host of warblers, tanagers and other songbirds have ridden the wave of emerging caterpillars n...

Life Among the Red-cedars: Beautiful and Bizarre

As I strolled along my road this winter, I admiring a row of Eastern Red-cedars dark against the snowfield behind them, I startled a mixe...

Worldwide Day of Botanical Art, May 18, 2018

I'm honored and delighted that my piece "Ohio Buckeye, Spring Flushing" has been juried in to the groundbreaking international exhibit Bo...

Winter Sowing Bee at Fish Creek Preserve

On a frigid Friday in December, folks have gathered at Myriam Wood's Fish Creek Preserve to start the plants of future springs and summer...

Fantastic "Cats" & Where to Find Them

. . . In your own backyard, as it happens, munching the foliage of native trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants. Many caterpillars eat a v...

How the Blue Jay Plants an Ecosystem

by Gillian Harris, Bloomington, Indiana One of the greatest pleasures of living in southern Indiana is wandering our oak-hickory forests ...

Skunk, Jacks & Dragons: The Curious Arum Family

Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum) unfurling in April. As July moved into August of 2016, gargantuan Titan Arums were blooming all ...

Trilliums: Sweet Whites and "Aromatic" Reds

No spring shade garden is complete, in my estimation, without trilliums and their distinctive triads of leaves, sepals and petals. Our na...

Deep Roots Garden Center: A New Source for Local, Organic, and Native Plants on B-town's East Side

With the recent opening of the new Deep Roots Garden Center, blooms are back at Bloomingfoods East—and so are vegetable and herb starts; ...

Life in the Leaf Litter

Harbinger of Spring (Erigenia bulbosa), late February Look carefully at the faded leaves carpeting the forest floor in February and early...

The Christmas Fern: a Fern for All Seasons

I take pleasure in the muted palette of the winter woods: the sepias and silvery-grays of tree bark, the faded ocher of leaves fallen or...

Eco Logic Native Plant Nursery: Growing a Seed Bank for Southern Indiana Gardens and Landscapes

Early autumn at Eco Logic’s native plant nursery brings with it--not pots of symmetrical domed mums, but a riot of pink-purple blazing st...

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GILLIAN HARRIS

Natural History Illustration & Writing