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Photo Essay of Wagner Fens
It was a cold and rainy day on June 8, 2024 when ENPS volunteers Patsy Cotterill, Manna Parseyan and Susan Neuman ventured out into the...
Susan Neuman
Jun 16, 20241 min read
End of an Era for ENPS – Last Days of the John Janzen Nature Centre Demonstration Bed
This evening (June 11) marks the last Tuesday night ever that I shall journey to the John Janzen Nature Centre (JJNC) demonstration bed....
Liz DeLeeuw
Jun 16, 20243 min read
Plant Profile: Saskatoon, Amelanchier alnifolia
A shrub of variable height in the rose family (Rosaceae), saskatoon is probably one of the best-known and loved native species in the...
Patsy Cotterill
Jun 16, 20242 min read
My Native Gardening Adventure
My "adventure" with native plants in my garden.
Margriet Van Laarhoven
Jun 15, 20241 min read
Habitat Garden in St. Albert Botanic Park
The St. Albert Botanic Park is a city park dedicated to many varieties of botanical plants in themed garden beds such as the Dahlia beds,
Lorna Duke
May 26, 20242 min read
Plant Profile: Jewelweeds – Jewels of the Later Summer
Most people encounter the balsam family, Balsaminaceae, through busy lizzie, Impatiens walleriana, the common annual of municipal garden...
Patsy Cotterill
Apr 2, 20244 min read
Naturalization – Bringing More Nature to the City – or Not?
Naturalization is a term that Edmontonians are hearing a lot these days, especially now as the City of Edmonton launches its new...
Patsy Cotterill
Apr 2, 20243 min read
Native Gardenscaping
Native Ground Covers Common wild strawberry, Fragaria virginiana, is a low-growing perennial that forms excellent ground cover and is...
Patsy Cotterill
Apr 2, 20242 min read
Commercial Bio-inoculants in Native Soil Systems
Originally published June 2023, Wildflower News. “Contrary to large organisms, studies on the impact of microbial invasions are less...
Kate Wilson
Apr 2, 20245 min read
Playing in the Sand: A Seasonal Diary of Restoration Work at Bunchberry Meadows - Part 1
I have been growing native plants for a long time, but it has only been in the last few years that I have had a chance to experience and...
Cherry Dodd
Apr 2, 202410 min read
Nisku Prairie: An Aspen Parkland Remnant in Central Alberta, Canada: Conservation Challenges
In the Interior Plains of North America, aspen parkland extends as an arc some 200 to 250 km wide from the foothills of the Rocky...
Patsy Cotterill
Mar 22, 20248 min read
Grasses of the Edmonton Region, Part Two
Some Spring-flowering Grasses Identifying grasses depends first and foremost on what they look like, of course, but other characteristics...
Patsy Cotterill
Mar 22, 20246 min read
Grasses of the Edmonton Region, Part One
grassland ecologist Lysandra Pyle presented on the subject of the Grasses of the Edmonton Region.
Patsy Cotterill
Mar 22, 20249 min read
The Role of Non-native Plants in Butterfly Communities
The Research On September 13 I watched a presentation with the above title given by Dr. Heather Kharouba of the University of Ottawa,...
Patsy Cotterill
Jan 12, 20246 min read
Hark, hark the larch: its leaves are turning golden as fall progresses!
By Patsy Cotterill The onset of autumn and a misidentification in a draft version of the October WN got me thinking that larches might...
Patsy Cotterill
Jan 12, 20244 min read
Plant Profile – Our Local Members of the Dogbane Family
By Patsy Cotterill, WF News, July 2023 In this article I’ll take a look at the three species of the dogbane family (Apocynaceae) that are...
Melanie Watson
Jul 1, 20233 min read
Native Plant Primer
By Patsy Cotterill ENPS has acquired several new members in recent months and it has been suggested that a primer on native plants and...
Melanie Watson
Jun 1, 20236 min read
Fall Seed Collecting, Cleaning and Storage
Plant seed collecting is easy, once you follow the main rules.
Cherry Dodd
Oct 1, 20228 min read
Gibbons Prairie and the Sturgeon River Badlands
Article and photos by Patsy Cotterill Wildflower News, February 2013 Originally published under “Parkland Plant Notes” in The Parkland...
Melanie Watson
Sep 2, 20224 min read
Grasses of Peatlands and Calcareous Habitats (Part 8)
by Patsy Cotterill. All photos by author. WF News, Sep 2022 Slim-stemmed reedgrass, Calamagrostis stricta We have already encountered the...
Melanie Watson
Sep 1, 20225 min read
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