Pipevine swallowtail larvae / Photo by Hans Rilling

Pipevine caterpillar, after lunch / Photo by Hans Rilling

George Washington Krentz and the Dutchman's Pipe

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The Dutchman's Pipe

May 26, 2009

Tags: Dutchman's pipe, Aristolochia durior, gardening, native plants

One day last summer I was poking around in the yard with my clippers, eyeing a tendril of American bittersweet that was shooting too vigorously toward a white pine, when a dark spot on the leaf of another plant caught my eye. I turned, blades raised, ready to nip incipient disease in the bud, (more…)
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