Adkins Arboretum Mystery Monday: Guess the Photo!
Happy Mystery Monday! Can you guess what is pictured in photo #1? The answer to last week’s mystery is black cohosh, Actaea racemosa, pictured in photo #2. The black cohosh is an upright rhizomatous perennial native to eastern North America. This Summer-blooming woodland wildflower has deer-resistant foliage topped in June with tall, narrow, upright spikes […]
Adkins Arboretum Mystery Monday: Guess the Photo!
Happy Mystery Monday! Can you guess what is pictured in photo #1? The answer to last week’s mystery is catchweed, Galium aparine, pictured in photo #2. The catchweed, Galium aparine, also known as cleavers, bedstraw, or the Velcro plant, is a sprawling wildflower in the madder family, Rubiaceae. Found in Maryland forests, moist or […]
Adkins Arboretum Mystery Monday: Guess the Photo!
Happy Mystery Monday! Can you guess what is pictured in photo #1? The answer to last week’s mystery is a wool sower gall pictured in photo #2. The wool sower gall is caused by Callirhytis seminator, a tiny cynipid gall wasp in the family Cynipidae. These strange, woolly growths appear on oak twigs in […]
Wine of the Week: Cantina Marangona Chiaretto
Ciao Tutti! This weekend at Piazza Italian Market, we will taste the Marangona Chiarretto Riviera del Garda Classico DOP ($23.25, ABV 12.5%), from the Cantina Marangona, located in Pozzolengo, on the southeastern shore of Lake Garda in Lombardia. The logo of a bell on the label pays tribute to the name of a bell […]
Wine of the Week: La Capranera Fiano Campania IGP
Ciao Tutti! This weekend at Piazza Italian Market, we will taste a white wine from Campania on the shores of the Tyrrhenian Sea, the La Capranera IGP Campania Fiano ($17.50, ABV 13%) from the Azienda Agricola San Salvatore estate in the Capaccio-Paestum area. The distinctive label of wavy black lines creates a body of […]
Wine of the Week: Easter Trio 2026
Ciao Tutti! As we begin to celebrate Passover, Easter and Orthodox Easter, we are offering several wines for your celebrations; a Rosato’ Ciro DOC ($19.50, ABV 13%); from the Scala Winery in Ciro Marina region of Calabria; a white wine, the Fiano di Avellino DOCG (425.25, ABV 13.5%) from the Rocca del Principe winery […]
Chesapeake Bay Herb Society Hosts Kaitlyn Frase on April 9th
Did you ever wonder what life is like on a flower farm? Come hear Kaitlyn Frase of Vintage Family Farms in Preston discuss life on her family’s heritage and heirloom homestead at the April 9 meeting of the Chesapeake Bay Herb Society. Kaitlyn’s farm specializes in cut flowers and flowertainment. They also grow heirloom vegetables […]
Wine of the Week: Sartorelli Tralivio
Ciao Tutti! This weekend at Piazza Italian Market we will taste the “Tralivio” DOC ($22.25, 13.5% ABV) from the Sartarelli winery in Poggio San Marcello, Le Marche. “Tralivio” translates to “among the olive trees” where their oldest Sartarelli vineyards are located. Sartorelli Tralivio The Sartarelli story begins with the family patriarch, Ferruccio Sartarelli, a renowned […]
Adkins Arboretum Mystery Monday: Guess the Photo!
Happy Mystery Monday! Can you guess what is pictured in photo #1? The answer to last week’s mystery is the stonefly, order Plecoptera, pictured in photo #2. The stonefly, order Plecoptera, sometimes called a winter stonefly or snowfly, is a small but remarkable insect most often noticed in late Winter and early Spring. The name […]
Wine of the Week: Valle Reale Montepulciano D’Abruzzo
Ciao Tutti! This weekend we will taste the Montepulciano D’Abruzzo DOC ($21.99, 13% ABV) from the Valle Reale winery in Popoli, Abruzzo. Being an architect, I am always intrigued when a wine label features a building with an interesting story. Benedictine monks designed and used the medieval building shown on the label, named Sant’Angelo Extra […]