Suzan Bellincampi

Rose Mallow

Philadelphia horticulturist Bernard McMahon, who also happened to be Thomas Jefferson’s garden consultant and mentor, knew a good plant when he saw it. 

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Naming Names

British entomologist Francis Walker was a divisive figure.

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Stick to It

Leave it to cleaver to overtake a yard.

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Look Sharp

Looking sharp is the perfect compliment for an Atlantic needlefish.  

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Fleeting Creatures

If it looks like a hummingbird and sounds like a hummingbird, it must be a hummingbird, right?   

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Allium Bounty

My garden doesn’t stink even if my breath will. Blame it on a healthy harvest of garlic. 

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Beetle Babies

What is the point? The point in question was at the end of a surprisingly long appendage emerging from the underside of a surprisingly large beetle.

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Mushroom Madness

Eighteenth-century British statesman and politician Robert Walpole made a cynical and apt connection between folks and fungus that could be relevant today. 

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Devil's Hair

Basil should grow with no strings attached. So, it was clearly a string of bad luck that befell an Edgartown gardener when she noticed strange threads on her herbs. 

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Megisto Cymela

Pieter Cramer was a man of means with time to spare. And he spared it on insects.

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