Like the fire-breathing chimera that was part lion, part goat, part dragon, and feasted on humans, plant chimeras are weird-looking. What’s more, they do, in fact, exist. How do they come about and what is their appeal? Read more about these botanical freaks here:
A bonsai evokes a landscape in miniature. Like any landscape, regular care is needed, even the naturalistic landscape of a bonsai. Of course, the landscape care won’t have you working up a sweat, but you do need to follow three basic steps:
Key lime is not your ordinary lime. And, for an even more extraordinary lime, there’s finger lime. And even more extraordinary is are hybrids of both of them. None are hard to grow, even where winters are cold.
The “True” Jimangi Back in 1995, Robin Williams starred in a rather bizarre movie, Jumangi. The rhinoceroses charging through the living room and the crazed, great white hunter caused more terror than did the bizarre plant that kept threatening Robin Williams. After all, rhinoceroses and great white hunters, even crazy ones, are real enough, but […]
Wintergreen, is it a fruit, is it an aroma, is it a medicine. Is it. . . .well, it’s all of these. And aromatic. And has many names. And . . . adequately covered in my latest blog post:
Did you ever bite into cultivar? Sure you did. Many times. Probably planted one even. So what is a cultivar?
For a potted citrus — or is it a citrus? — I sing the praises of kumquat. Read more about this wonderful fruit for the northern citrus craver in my latest blog post:
Yes, I have some suggestion for gifts for gardeners. Three categories: plants (of course); expendables; and endurables. Details in my latest blog post, here:
Mice are clawing their ways in to where they can find food and lodging. Good for them but not for our plants, and us. Read about the various mousey threats and some ideas about how to avoid problems — in my latest blog post:
Whoaaa! I almost rammed my foot on the brakes to save a plant from being butchered, and more! But I decided to drive on because . . . well, read my latest blog post to see why I almost stopped for plant rescue and why I decided it was, sort of, okay.
