The Friends of the Wild Flower Garden.

A chronological listing of new postings to the web site.

  
  Postings may be entirely new articles, additions of older material appearing on the web site for the first time or major updates to previously published work.  
Posting Month Document description  
May 2013 History: The Upland Garden addition to the Eloise Butler WildFlower Garden.  
  Plants: Cedar Apple Rust, The Five Earliest Spring Blooming Plants.  
  Revised Plant Information Sheets: Bastard Toadflax, Fringed Loosestrife, Fumewort, Minnesota Dwarf Troutlily, Moneywort, Prairie Smoke, Queen of the Meadow, Queen of the Prairie, Tufted Loosestrife, Whorled Loosestrife, Wood Anemone  
  Revised Plant Information Sheets: False Rue Anemone, Rue Anemone, Hooked Crowfoot, Kidneyleaf Buttercup, Swamp Buttercup, Tall Buttercup. New Plant Information Sheet: Cursed Crowfoot.  
April 2013 Revised Plant Information Sheets: Prairie Dogbane, Spreading Dogbane, Maltese Cross. New Plant Information Sheets - Historical Plants: Aromatic Aster, Pasque Flower, Wild Sweet William  
  Revised Plant Information Sheets: American Germander, Hedge Bindweed, Gray Dogwood, Red Osier Dogwood.  
  New Plant Information Sheets - Historical Garden Plants: Catnip, Field Bindweed, Marsh Hedge-nettle, Spiny Sow Thistle, Virginia Spring Beauty, Water Hemlock, White Campion. Other Plants: Bulblet Water Hemlock, Field Sow Thistle, Fool's Parsley, Japanese Hedge Parsley  
  The Joys and Disconcerts of April at Eloise Butler, Memorials in the Martha Crone Shelter.  
  New Plant Information Sheets: White Vervain, Wild Poinsettaia. Historical Plants: Beaked Hazelnut, Curlycup Gumweed, Roundleaf Greenbriar, Sneezeweed.  
March 2013 New Plant Information Sheets: Bitternut Hickory, Black Ash, Black Nightshade, Bur Oak, Devil's Beggartick, Gray Goldenrod, Green Ash, Hog Peanut, Musclewood, Northern Pin Oak, Northern Red Oak, Shagbark Hickory, Sugar Maple, Swamp Beggartick, Thin-leaved Coneflower, Wild Mint, Willowherb, Yellowwood.  
  New Plant Information Sheets: Common Cinquefoil, Common Ragweed, Eastern Bluestar, Fringeleaf Wild Petunia, Giant Ragweed, Harebell, Lanceleaf Figwort, Longleaf Chickweed, Marsh Bellflower, Mouseear Chickweed, Northern Water Plantain, Poke Milkweed, Prickly Lettuce, Rough Cinquefoil, Starry False Solomon's Seal, White Clover, Whorled Milkweed, Wild Garlic.  
  Information sheet: Willow Pine Cone Galls  
  New Plant Information Sheets: American Basswood, American Elm, Black Locust, Black Willow, Box Elder, Cottonwood, Hoptree, Mock Orange, Norway Maple, Quaking Aspen, Red Maple, Silver Maple, Speckled Alder, White Ash, White Oak.  
  History of the Garden and The Friends from 100, 75, 50, 25, 10 years ago - Spring season 1913, 1938, 1963, 1988, 2003.  
February 2013 New Plant Information Sheets: Paper Birch, River Birch, Yellow Birch, Glossy Buckthorn, Black Walnut, Butternut, Eastern Hemlock, Red Pine, White Pine, White Spruce, Crested Wood Fern  
  New Plant Information Sheets: American Hazelnut, Broadleaf Arrowhead, Downy Serviceberry, Motherwort, Northern White Cedar, Pin Cherry, Southern Arrowwood, Western Poison Ivy, Wild Lupine.  
  New Plant Information Sheets: Aniseroot, Common Plantain, Creeping Charlie, Prairie Ragwort, Riverbank Grape, Smooth Rockcress, Virginia Creeper, Woodbine.  
  Plant information sheets revised: Eastern Red Cedar, Pussy Willow, Saskatoon Serviceberry.  
January 2013 New Plant Information Sheets: Canada Thistle, Bull Thistle, Prairie Trillium, Carolina Rose, Prickly Rose, Priaire Rose, Smooth Rose. Thistle ID Key, Wild Rose ID Key.  
  Plant information sheets revised: Blue Flag, Bugbane, Climbing Rose, Field Thistle, Wild Blue Phlox, Drooping Trillium, Large-flowered Trillium, Nodding Trillium, Purple Trillium, Snow Trillium, Yellow Trillium, Yellow Flag, Woods' Rose.  
  History of the Garden and the Friends: 1913, 1938, 1963, 1988, 2003  
  Revised Plant Information Sheets: Common St. Johnswort, Swamp White Oak, White and Yellow Sweet Clover, Wild Bergamot. New Plant Information Sheets: Great St. Johnswort, Purple Bergamot.  
  New Plant Information Sheets: Heart-leaved Aster, Ontario Aster, White Panicle Aster, Bracken Fern, Christmas Fern, Cinnamon Fern, Goldie's Fern, Lady Fern, Royal Fern, Silvery False Spleenwort, Spinulose Wood Fern.  
December 2012 Plant information sheets revised:White Arrowleaf Aster, Calico Aster, Sky Blue Aster, Smooth Blue Aster, Silky Aster, White Heath Aster, White Wood Aster, Tamarack.  
  Plant information sheets revised: Prickly Gooseberry, Prairie Dock, Burdock, Fern Talk  
  Plant information sheets revised: Dark Green Bulrush, Flowering Spurge, Showy Goldenrod, Smooth Oxeye, Trailing Wild Bean, White Arrow-leaf Aster, Wild Lettuce, Zigzag Goldenrod.  
  Plant information sheets revised: Butter and Eggs, Butterfly Milkweed, Canada Goldenrod, Cardinal Flower, Clearweed, Flat-top Aster, New Jersey Tea, Nodding Bur Marigold, Pale Touch-me-not, Purple Loosestrife, Spotted Touch-me-not, Stiff Goldenrod, Turk's-cap Lily.  
  Plant information sheets revised: Buttonbush, Lesser Purple Fringed Orchid, Purplestem Aster, Purple Giant Hyssop, Red Clover, Rough-fruited Cinquefoil, Sky Blue Aster, Smooth Blue Aster, Wild Calla.  
  Plant information sheets revised: Ohio Buckeye, Nannyberry, Gray Dogwood, Whorled Loosestrife, Wild Plum, Winterberry.  
  History of the Garden and The Friends from 100, 75, 50, 25, 10 years ago - winter season 1913, 1938, 1963, 1988, 2003.  
November 2012 Plant information sheets revised: Large-flowered Trillium, Dewberry, Eastern Daisy Fleabane, Heart-leaved Four-o'clock, Foxglove Beardtongue, Golden Alexander, Mayapple, Red Baneberry, Shooting Star, Red Osier Dogwood, Solomon's Seal, Swamp Buttercup, Tall Meadow Rue, Blue Flag, Common Milkweed, Smooth Sumac, Black Chokeberry, Red Chokeberry, Carrion Flower, American Cranberrybush, Canada Elderberry, Grecian Foxglove, Foxglove Beardtongue, Water Horsetail, Yellow Lady's-slipper.  
  Plant information sheets revised: Maidenhair Fern, Hairy Bead Grass, Yellow Foxtail Grass, Switchgrass, Allegheny Blackberry, Hawthorn, Prickly Gooseberry, Jack-in-the-pulpit, Live Forever, Mountain Maple, Striped Maple, Virginia Bluebells, Eastern Swamp Saxifrage, Heart-leaved Aster, Common Virginia Strawberry.  
October 2012 Plant information sheets revised: Groundnut, Climbing Nightshade, Bottle Gentian, Witch Hazel, Smooth Blue Aster.  
  Photos from the 2012 Autumn Buckthorn pulls.  
Sept. 2012 Green Herons - article by MPRB Naturalist Tammy Mercer (pdf file)  
  Profile of volunteer Liz Anderson (pdf file)  
  Update on Garden Plantings funded by the Friends in 2012.  
August 2012 History of the Garden and The Friends from 100, 75, 50, 25, 10 years ago - Autumn season - 1912, 1937, 1962, 1987, 2002.  
  Plant information sheets revised: Prairie Cordgrass, Hairy Woodland Brome, Prickly Ash, Gray-headed Coneflower, Green-headed Coneflower, Tall Bellflower, Wild Onion, Black-eyed Susan, Prairie Blazing Star, Common Milkweed, Virginia Mountain Mint, Prairie Dogbane, Agrimony, Ironwood.  
July 2012 Showy Lady's-slipper rescue mission  
  Plant information sheets revised: Blue Vervain, Black Cherry, Bugbane, Butter and Eggs, Chokecherry, Cow Parsnip, Clustered Bellflower, Eastern Wahoo, European Bellflower, Garden Currant, Lopseed, Pointed-leaved Tick Trefoil, Queen of the Prairie, Thimbleweed, Wild Leek, Dodder, Paleleaf Woodland Sunflower  
June 2012 Plant information sheets revised: Veiny Pea, Eastern Wahoo, White and Yellow Sweet Clover, Sweet Fern, Black Cherry, Kentucky Coffeetree, White Avens, Carrion Flower, Alumroot, Pagoda Dogwood, Sensitive Fern, Ostrich Fern, Interrupted Fern, Hedge Bindweed.  
  New Plant Information Sheet: Woods' Rose  
  History of the Garden and The Friends from 100, 75, 50, 25, 10 years ago - Summer season - 1912, 1937, 1962, 1987, 2002.  
May 2012 Plant information sheets revised: Goatsbeard; Buckthorn; Prickly-ash; Asparagus; European Cranberry; Common Fleabane  
  Plant information sheets revised: Early Meadow Rue; Foam Flower; False Rue Anemone; Drooping Trillium; Nodding Trillium; Yellow Trillium; Fumewort; Rue Anemone  
April 2012 Plant information sheets revised: American Plum; Canada Violet; Toothwort  
  Plant Information Sheets. New: Blue Squill; Revised: MN Dwarf Trout Lily, Ostrich Fern, Snow Trillium  
March 2012 History of the Garden and The Friends from 100, 75, 50, 25, 10 years ago - Spring season - 1912, 1937, 1962, 1987, 2002.  
  Plant information sheets: Swamp White Oak, Dark Green Bulrush, Wild Cucumber, American Lopseed, Spotted Beebalm, Starry Campion.  
  Finding the White Cypripedium from "Experiences in Collecting", May 1914 by Eloise Butler  
  New Birdbath from "Annals of the Wild Life Reserve, June 1917 by Eloise Butler  
Feb. 2012 Plant information Sheets: Norway Spruce, Minnesota Dwarf Troutlily. Historical Plants no longer extant: Lesser Yellow Lady's-slipper, Lesser Purple Fringed Orchid, Maltese Cross, Northern Green Orchid, Red Chokeberry.  
  Occult Experiences of a Wild Gardener, by Eloise Butler, part of the series "Annals of the Wild Life Reserve."  
  Friends Garden Project - 2011. Details and photo of the Violet Way planting funded by the Friends.  
Dec. 2011 New Plant Information Sheets: Ironweed, Chokecherry, Black Chokeberry, Black Cherry, Burdock, Prickly Ash, Purple Giant Hyssop  
  New Plant Info Sheets: European Cranberrybush, Staghorn Sumac, Fragrant Sumac, Smooth Sumac. Dodder, Asparagus, Wild Lettuce, Rattlesnake-master  
Nov. 2011 History of the Garden and The Friends from 100, 75, 50, 25, 10 years ago - Winter season - 1912, 1937, 1962, 1987, 2002.  
  Updated plant info sheets: Yellow Lady's-slipper, Big Bluestem, Little Bluestem, Wild Rye, Reed Canary Grass, Sideoats Grama, Eastern Bottlebrush Grass, Indian Grass, Prairie Cordgrass, Smooth Brome.  
  New Plant Information Sheets: Downy Phlox, Elm-leaved Goldenrod, Ostrich Fern, Sensitive Fern, White Baneberry.  
Sept. 2011 Late Blooming Flowers Dot Meadows with White, Blue and Gold; Asters, Gentians, Lobelias, and Sunflowers Greet Field Lovers by Eloise Butler, Published Sept. 10, 1911  
  Acrid Taste Gives Name to the Smart Weed; Miss Butler Describes Wild Grasses in the Park.by Eloise Butler, Published Sept. 17, 1911  
  History of the Garden and The Friends from 100, 75, 50, 25, 10 years ago - Autumn season  
  Fringed Gentian, Termed Loveliest of Blue Flowers, Now in Bloom; Asters and Goldenrod Indicate Autumn Has Reached Minnesota by Eloise Butler, Published Sept. 10, 1911  
  Virgin Minnesota Prairie in Full Bloom Surpasses Flora of Tropics; Earth’s Tapestry Shows a Riot of Color before Autumnal Frosts by Eloise Butler, Published Sept. 3, 1911  
August 2011 Prickly Armor Furnishes Protection for the Thistle; Caterpillars Crawl by and Browsing Horses Shun Plant by Eloise Butler, Published August 27, 1911  
  Wild Balsam Occupies Low Places in Wild Gardens; Leaves Shine Like Silver When Put in the Water by Eloise Butler, Published August 20, 1911  
  Common Plantain Is Compared with the Alisma Plantago, Otherwise Known as the Water Variety by Eloise Butler, Published August 13, 1911  
  Tramp Plants, Migrants from Foreign Lands, Thrive in Minnesota; They Often Pre-empt Ground, Crowding Out Native Citizens of Soil by Eloise Butler, Published August 6, 1911  
  Plant information pages: Pale Purple Coneflower, Blue Vervain, Hoary Vervain.  
July 2011 Flowering Spurge Graces Roadside and Prairie in Late summer; Varieties of Yellow Blooms Classed as “Sunflowers” Confusingby Eloise Butler, Published July 30, 1911  
  Mint, Abundant in Minnesota, Delights the Senses; Miss Butler Tells of Wild Flowers in Glenwood Park Garden by Eloise Butler, Published July 23, 1911  
  Summer Issue of The Fringed Gentian™, Vol. 59 #3. with President's letter, Garden Curator's Notes, article "Eyeshine", Volunteer spotlight on Joy Davis. (All pdf files)  
  Lily Declared Crowning Wild Flower near Minneapolis in July; Miss Butler Describes, Also, the Blossoms That Kept it Company by Eloise Butler, Published July 16, 1911  
  Milkweed Flowers Much in evidence during July, Harebells, Ox-Eyes, and Water Lilies Also Bloom in Abundance by Eloise Butler, Published July 9, 1911  
  Blue Flag, Native Minnesota Iris, Classed as Richest of Lilies; Early Meadow Rue and Larkspur Treated by Miss Butler by Eloise Butler, Published July 2, 1911  
June 2011 Plant information sheets on Tufted Loosestrife and Showy Beardtongue  
  Painted Cup Notable among Wild Flowers Found near Minneapolis; Bog-trotter’s Zeal Repaid by Orchids and Other Swamp Blossoms by Eloise Butler, Published June 18, 1911  
  History of the Garden and The Friends from 100, 75, 50, 25, 10 years ago - Summer season  
  Wild Roses Know When it is June, According to Miss Butler, Who Describes Blossoms that Delight the Rambler Out-of-Doors, by Eloise Butler, published June 11, 1911  
  Hawthorn of World Fame through Poetry and Prose of England, Virginian Waterleaf, White Lily and Geranium Featured in June by Eloise Butler, published June 4, 1911  
May 2011 Geum, Early Meadow Rue, Lousewort, Phlox, and Hoary Puccoon Are Described as Wild Beauties in Miss Butler’s Weekly Article. by Eloise Butler, published May 28, 1911  
  Photo page of tornado damage to Garden and Wirth Park area on May 22, 2011  
  Beautiful Large-flowered Trilliums Grace Minnetonka Wood in May; Violets, Forest, Hillside and Prairie Varieties Flourish Near Minneapolis by Eloise Butler, published May 21, 1911  
  Plum Blossoms, Skunk Cabbage, and Modest Jack-in-the-Pulpit among May Arrivals That Please Lover of Life in the Woods by Eloise Butler, published May 14, 1911  
April 2011 Spring 2011 issue of The Fringed Gentian™, with President's Letter, Garden Curator Notes, article - What's in a (Flower's) Name? (All PDF Files)  
  Bloodroots, Marsh Marigolds, Adder’s Tongues and Dutchman’s Breeches Among Spring Blooms that Delight Eye and Heart, by Eloise Butler, published May 7, 1911  
  Anemones, Hepaticas and Buttercups Prominent in Crowfoot Family Here, by Eloise Butler, published April 30, 1911  
  Notable Features of my Wild Garden, Part II, by Eloise Butler, March 1915  
March 2011 Notable Features of my Wild Garden by Eloise Butler, March 1915  
  History of the Garden and The Friends from 100, 75, 50, 25, 10 years ago - Spring season  
  Plant Infomation sheets - new and major updates: Common Milkweed, Kidneyleaf Buttercup, Tamarack  
  Clinton Odell's essay on the significance of the Garden and why the Friends were founded.  
  Reflections of Bill Toivonen. A friend, now age 100, experiences the Garden and compares to Thoreau's Walden.  
  Posting of volunteers in "The Spotlight" from the past 11 years. See list on Volunteering Pg.  
February 2011 Grasses of the Garden  
January 2011 New plant information pages: Rough Bedstraw, Fragrant Bedstraw, Large-headed Blazing Star, Ontario Blazing Star, Prairie Blazing Star, Rough Blazing Star, Shaggy Blazing Star, Carrion Flower, Dewberry, Meadow Goatsbeard, Minnesota Dwarf Trout Lily, Purple Loosestrife, Round-headed Bush Clover, Virginia Stickseed, White and Yellow Sweet Clover, White Wood Aster, Wild Leek. Use the Common Name Plant List to access the page.  
  Updates to seasonal plant thumbnail sheets incorporating 133 additional new plant images. Use the photo gallery page to access the thumbnails.  
  Letter From New Mexico - #1 Of Cranes, Geese and Mountain Lions.  
December 2010 History of the Garden and The Friends from 100, 75, 50, 25, 10 years ago - Winter season  
  Historical notes about the Garden - 1911  
  Historical notes about the Garden - 1936  
  Historical notes about the Garden and the Friends - 1961  
  Historical notes about the Garden and the Friends - 1986  
  Historical notes about the Garden and the Friends - 2001  
  Lowland Forest Trees for Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden. A 2010 project funded by The Friends  
November 2010 Then and Now: Photo comparison of Garden scenes -past and present - all segments  
  Then and Now: The Old Cabin Office and the Newer Visitors Shelter - 7 decades apart  
  Then and Now: The old and new office - Winter Views- five decades apart  
  Then and Now: The Site of the Old Garden Office -1935 & 2008  
  Then and Now: Mallard Pool and the Rustic Bridge - 7+ decades apart  
  Then and Now: Hepatica Hill - Fifty years apart  
  Then and Now: Trees and Paths in the Woodland Bog - 1948 & 2008  
  Then and Now: Foamflower in the Woodland Bog - 1952 & 2008  
  Then and Now: East Woodland Path to the Shelter - 1952 & 2008  
  Then and Now: Open Water in the Woodland Bog - 1950 to 2008  
  Then and Now: The Entrance to the Upland Garden - 1948 and 2008  
  Then and Now: Upland Hillside Early Plantings - 1950 & 2008  
  Then and Now: Upland Central Hillside - 1948 & 2008  
October 2010 Ken Avery - Gardener - an expanded article on Ken Avery's tenure as Eloise Butler Gardener.  
  The Bog at Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden - article on history and plant community.  
September 2010 Early History of the Garden - 1910  
  The Great Medicine Spring - The Friends are involved with saving the spring.  
  History of the Garden and The Friends from 100, 75, 50, 25, 10 years ago - Autumn season  
August 2010 White Rattlesnake-root Plant Lore Sheet  
  Saskatoon Serviceberry - Plant Information Sheet  
  Summer 2010 storm damage in the Garden - photos  
  Common Buckthorn - Update to Plant information page.  
  Photos of Eloise Butler's 80th Birthday - 1931  
July 2010 All Photo pages, thumbnails, Common name and Scientific name pages have been updated for newer botanical classifications.  
  Early History of the Garden - 1909  
  Marie Demler - A Friend Extraordinaire - Highlighs of Marie's long tenure as a Garden Volunteer. Article by Donna Ahrens.  
  Notes on the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Friends of the Wild Flower Garden  
  Book Review of two children's books - Flower Garden and Seed Folks  
June 2010 Whorled Loosestrife - Special Concern  
May 2010 Cary George: Fourth caretaker of the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden  
  History of the Garden and The Friends from 100, 75, 50, 25, 10 years ago - Summer season  
  A Birdbath on the Prairie. Historical article  
  White-throated Sparrow. Photo page  
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