Published October 10, 2015 Bee Handyman Carpenter bees are the tiny handymen of the insect world. When the honeybees have a party and leave honey stuck all over […]
Published July 7, 2016 Living Fossils Cycads are the oldest insect pollinated plants. The Jurassic is known as the age of the cycads, when these then […]
Published May 3, 2016 Abundant Azaleas I am named for my father’s sister, Ruth Happel Smiley, who for most of her life worked on the gardens at Mohonk […]
Published February 12, 2016 Winter’s War February is winter’s battleground, a month reluctantly moving toward spring. As the days grow longer, the sun gets stronger, but at night […]