What I Found Interesting: September 24, 2025

Green-colored copper sculpture of girl laying down on her stomach on the ground reading a book, brown mulch surround the sculpture, green-leafed white-flowered shrubs in the background.

Coffee filters providing floodproofing for endangered birds, a successful treatment for Huntington’s disease, and the Seine river in Paris cooling 800 buildings in summer are a few of the interesting stories I’ve read and enjoyed in the past month.

I hope you enjoy them, too!

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Fall 2025 Southeast Michigan Plant Swaps and Sales

Spiky cylindrical flowers comprised of small violet-blue florets rise from whorls of long serrated green leaves on several upright plants. The violet-blue flowers are in different sizes, one appears to be almost three inches in size.

It’s that time of year again. The higher summer temperatures have given way to cool mornings and, in my opinion, better sleeping weather.

Which has me considering plants I want to add to my garden.

While many nurseries have fewer plants (or have closed for the season), local fall plant sales and swaps are happening all over southeast Michigan.

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