Colorful finger limes

ALL FOR A SLICE OF PIE

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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.
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Jumanji

JUMANGI!!!

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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 that plant surely had to be no more than a moviemaker’s fantasy. Well, let me tell you, that odd looking plant bore an eerily strong resemblance to a real plant. The moviemakers did not have to stray too far from botanical accuracy to make…
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Macrocarpa, wintergreen planted as ornamental, Bryn Mawr

A WELCOME TOUCH OF GREENERY

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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:
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Cabbage kin

UGLY WORD, NICE PLANTS

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Did you ever bite into cultivar? Sure you did. Many times. Probably planted one even. So what is a cultivar?
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Kumquat

THIS CITRUS HAS IT ALL

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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:
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staghorn fern

GIFTS FOR GARDENERS

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Yes, I have some suggestion for gifts for gardeners. Three categories: plants (of course); expendables; and endurables. Details in my latest blog post, here:
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White footed mouse

MOUSEY THREATS AND SOLUTIONS

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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:
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Interesting and unique pruning of forsythia

BUSH RESCUE

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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.
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Growing breadcrumbs

STUFFED

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Grow turkey stuffing. Make turkey stuffing. Stuff yourself. I only address the first, with suggestions from trees on down. Read about all this in my latest blog post, here:
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