Photo of the Week: Limited Edition Vernors Boston Cooler

A 20-ounce plastic bottle with a white label of Limited Edition Vernors Boston Cooler featuring Woody the gnome with a green hat sits on a dark walnut shelf ledge.

When I learned Vernors was launching a limited edition of Vernors Boston Cooler flavor this summer, I knew I’d be checking it out.

For sale only in Michigan and Toledo, Ohio, I discovered the limited edition would only be available from July through September 2025.

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Next Steps for Nature: Free Webinar on October 16, 2025

Bright orange butterfly with black veins, a black border with white spots and black body has its wings outstretched as it perches on a cluster of small orange florets of a butterfly weed milkweed

Mark your calendar!

Next Steps for Nature, a free webinar featuring the renowned Dr. Doug Tallamy and hosted by Wild Ones, will be held Thursday, October 16, 2025 at 7:00PM Eastern Daylight Time.

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Photo of the Week: Chrysler Imperial Hybrid Tea Rose

A red hybrid tea rose with multiple layers of deep red petals forming a spiral shape. Deep green leaves under the flower on a background of a white wall.

I suspect this beautiful red Chrysler Imperial rose will be our last hybrid tea rose to bloom in our yard in 2025.

The Chrysler Imperial rose has a citrus scent. It’s an heirloom rose which won the American Rose Society’s James Alexander Gamble Rose Fragrance Award in 1966.

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