My Life Among the Lithops (and Other Strange Plants)

My single flower, Mexican Tuberoses are blooming, so exciting! And very, very fragrant.... There are more green facets to fresh tuberos...

I might as well start with the photo.... What a mass of curls! But Tillandsia crocata has even more charms. The small, yellow blooms are ...

Ah, those lovely "silver skins"--not so easy to grow, but so unique and beautiful. One of their colloquial names is "bababoud...

This weekend I was very blessed to learn about (and taste) many of our native plants. Wanna eat a spiderwort bud? No problem, it's good ...

"Reiki For Plants" is one of my all-time most popular posts. Are there any Reiki practitioners out there who would like to try Rou...

The dahlias have regenerated and are blooming again; there are still mites, but they are now part of the system, not bullies: And my firs...

Here's a brief article about how the tropics are expanding as we add more energy to our atmosphere and oceans in the form of heat: htt...