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...
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Cherry Dodd
Apr 210 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...
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Patsy Cotterill
Mar 228 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...
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Patsy Cotterill
Mar 226 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...
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Patsy Cotterill
Mar 229 min read
Grasses of the Edmonton Region, Part One
grassland ecologist Lysandra Pyle presented on the subject of the Grasses of the Edmonton Region.
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Patsy Cotterill
Jan 126 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,...
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Patsy Cotterill
Jan 124 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...
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Melanie Watson
Jul 1, 20233 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...
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Melanie Watson
Jun 1, 20236 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...
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Cherry Dodd
Oct 1, 20228 min read
Fall Seed Collecting, Cleaning and Storage
Plant seed collecting is easy, once you follow the main rules.
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Melanie Watson
Sep 2, 20224 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...
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Melanie Watson
Sep 1, 20225 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...
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Melanie Watson
Apr 1, 20223 min read
Sowing Wildflowers Outside in Spring
by Cherry Dodd Native wildflowers are perennials, but they are always more of a challenge to grow than garden perennials. One of the...
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