Meadow Grasshopper

This Meadow Grasshopper (Chorthippus parallelus?) kept visiting my Vervain plants for a snack, delighting my son for a few days.

Wormwood in bloom

The victor of the chariot races of the festival of Latinae was given a decoction of wormwood to drink, Pliny records, since he was a person worth keeping alive. Hildegard named it the ‘principal remedy for all ailments’. Yet this is no sweet-smelling rose, but a herb of pungency and

Echinacea flowering, Part Two

An Echinacea purpurea flower, unfolding.

Flytrap Seeds

Ripe Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) fruits crack open revealing clusters of black seeds.

Hide and Seek

Hide and seek (in a tansy flower)