Green Roofs: They’re not just for houses anymore!

There are lichen that grow on rocks, organically painting their hard surfaces with a spectrum from fluorescent split pea to brick orange. Others are epiphytes, growing on branches and twigs and making them even more textured and green. Then there are some that colonize the top of a Volkswagen bus.

Yep, my daddy’s 1971 beat-up ride is [...]

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Pollination, Git’er Done! (or, Ephemerals: Part II)

This is the fourth in a series of posts about the trip. Because with over 500 photos, almost all of which — save a few yeti pictures — are devoted to the plant kingdom, there’s a lot to say.

During the first weekend of March, I headed down to Anza-Borrego, California’s largest state park. [...]

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