Nature – Page 37 – Father Pitt

More Corn

You will pardon old Pa Pitt if he has been getting a bit corny lately, but Zea mays is a very picturesque plant.

August 3, 2020

Sun Shining Through a Corn Leaf

Corn in city gardens and farms is getting tall enough that we can look up at the leaves.

July 26, 2020

Daylily Stamens

Stamens covered with pollen in a daylily flower from an unnamed hybrid seedling.

July 8, 2020

Every year these daylilies bloom at the end of May, often while the last tulips are still blooming, and weeks before most of the other daylilies in the city appear. They came from an unnamed hybrid seedling.

May 25, 2020

Purple Archangel

Old Pa Pitt is trying to teach himself to call this beautiful little weed “Purple Archangel,” because it is much more poetic than the name he has always used for it, “Purple Dead-Nettle.”