A year ago this month I discovered a white, spherical flower growing beside a narrow creek. Seven months later I bought a used kayak, and now I meet buttonbush all the time along lakes and rivers.
pollination
Hibiscus With Clouded Sulphur
Oxalis Sips
Hold on.
Classroom Carnivore Blossom
Click here to see last year’s blooms.
February Pollination
Dune Daisy Alien Spotted on New Smyrna Beach
Flowers in the Hood
This afternoon I walked to school to check on our class vegetable bed and take some photos along the way. During the school year, the morning walk takes between ten and fifteen minutes. Avian neighbors’ songs become familiar, as do annual changes in foliage, and the comfortable smells of breakfast. Continue the tour…
Bartram’s Scrub-Hairstreak, Strymon acis
Hopefully one of these guys pollinated the honeydew plants this morning.
Eastern tiger swallowtail, Papilio glaucus
During field day, some students noticed this butterfly while waiting to walk across a slackline.
Passion Flower, Passiflora
Southern Magnolia, Magnolia grandiflora
Venus Flytrap, Dionaea muscipula
A second grade teacher from across the hall enjoys giving me a hard time for being vegan with multiple carnivorous plants in the classroom. He also has a venus flytrap, so we decided to do a little pollinating. See how it turns out…
Oxeye Daisy, Chrysanthemum leucanthemum
Pedagogy of the Plants 
