​Natural History Illustration & Writing

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

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

Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) and Butterflyweed (Asclepias tuberosus) keeping company in an old field. A monarch butterfly nectaring on common milkweed...

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

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

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 mixed flock of cardinals...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 still clinging on, ...

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 stars, purplish-blue l...