My Life Among the Lithops (and Other Strange Plants)

Pensive Tuesday got pre-empted by Weird Wednesday, which is possible if you believe, like Dr.  Who, that linear time is an illusion.... An...

Last month, I made a pledge to myself to spend more time with the photos I already have, and to stop piling on so many new ones. I've be...

It's been quite a weekend walkabout already. We live in the middle of a Manatee Zone (Trichechus manatus), but I have not seen any up cl...

For this Pensive Tuesday, I'm once again ruminating on the subject of dirt. Desert dirt, specifically. I've spent long stretches of ...

Those of us who live on exposed, windy dunes and other harsh garden sites are always on the lookout for plants that are beautiful and stay h...

I'm very happy and proud that my first group of Russian Mammoth Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus) were able to complete their entire life c...

Gardener Rika of Lithops Stories had an interesting post this week about Lithops that get...stuck.  They start to regenerate, then just sit ...