Archive for January, 2008

Drought Tolerant Beauty

Callicarpa Americana, Beauty Berry I have logged easily 3600 miles plus on foot over the last six years, I must have passed the Beauty Berry countless times, ignoring its presence as its spikes of color beg for attention. Tricked again by others who have cast this plant aside discarding it as a weed species. [...]
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Above still waters

Bullet grass, coastal bermuda grass, creeping panic, dogtooth grass, panic rampant, wainaku grass are all alternative names for torpedo grass. Dogtooth grass is fairly descriptive because torpedo grass is impossible to pull out by hand, it locks into the ground like my chesapeake on a frisbee. The only difference is the torpedo grass [...]
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