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Pennywort Antifreeze
How will the Virginia pennywort survive the single digit temperatures tonight?
Kristin Bailey Wilson
Feb 20, 2025


Green and White Dining
This green and white native plant combination is perfect for a patio planting.
Kristin Bailey Wilson
Feb 13, 2025


Old MacDonald, just for fun...
Tennessee Coneflower (Verse 1) Old MacDonald had a prairie, E-I-E-I-O, And on that prairie, he grew grasses, E-I-E-I-O, With a...
Kristin Bailey Wilson
Feb 10, 2025


Hope You Make Exercise Soon
In the interest of reusing, I often drag out a box of old cards that were my grandmother’s. I cut out images or words from the old cards...
Kristin Bailey Wilson
Feb 5, 2025


It didn't sprout. Hmmm. Wildflower Seed Mixes
“I bought a package of wildflower seeds and planted them, but nothing came up.” Hmmm. I heard this repeatedly as I sold native plant...
Kristin Bailey Wilson
Jun 23, 2024


A Rose by Another Name: What's in RoundUp anyway?
I am a firm believer that chemical use for aesthetic purposes is wanton and environmentally harmful. If you want your lawn to be a...
Kristin Bailey Wilson
Jun 19, 2024


Milkweed Patches
I spent about 45 minutes taking pictures at two common milkweed patches on the farm. The first is at an edge between a wooded area and a...
Kristin Bailey Wilson
Jun 9, 2024


Floppy Ticks with Powder
I have a love-hate relationship with Lanceleaf Coreopsis. Coreopsis lanceolata L. is native to my home state of Missouri, and commonly...
Kristin Bailey Wilson
Jun 2, 2024


Winter Hiking: Cedar Sink Trail
Note: This is a blog I wrote for another purpose in December 2022, but it wasn't published, so I decided to pop it here. There's still...
Kristin Bailey Wilson
Mar 3, 2023


The Beleaguered Monarch and the Mosquito Fogger
I took the picture above of a beleaguered looking monarch in late September. My thought as I snapped was to wonder if he'd make it to...
Kristin Bailey Wilson
Oct 11, 2022


Pappus All Over the Kitchen: Common Milkweed
As a teenager, my parents took us on a family vacation to Rome. It was a rare treat made even better when my dad bought me, my sister,...
Kristin Bailey Wilson
Oct 8, 2022


Partridge Pea and Your Cholesterol
Beans, beans the musical fruit. The more you eat, the more you toot. Partridge pea or Chamaecrista fasciculata is a legume eaten by deer...
Kristin Bailey Wilson
Oct 7, 2022


Suzie
Suzie arrived in Cadiz, Kentucky at our house in 2011. I drove her there from St. Louis, wild and scared. I'm not sure how all this...
Kristin Bailey Wilson
Sep 9, 2022


Maud, the white oak
Everyone should be in an ongoing relationship with a tree or five. Maud is a Quercus alba, a white oak. She lives on our farm in strip of...
Kristin Bailey Wilson
Sep 9, 2022
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