My Life Among the Lithops (and Other Strange Plants)

Alert Naturalist Baker named this delightfully fragrant Tillie in 1887. It means "twisted fruit", and that refers to the twisty se...

Alert Gardeners Gail and Ellen brought up a horrible new practice at the big box stores. Spray-painted cacti and succulents. If this isn...

I promise I'll blog about plants tomorrow (really!) but I had to share the evolution of a storm off the beach today. We have no mountain...

Traditionally, orchids in bloom are staked. This keeps the flowers more or less upright, and the plant from lurching out of its pot. But mor...

My beaches are way too hot for walking this weekend; by mid-morning, the sand scorches my poor bare feet. Not into that! So for the Weekend ...

Cacti grow very slowly, bloom once a year if at all, and basically, prefer to be left alone. "Fluffpuff" in bloom, MR Neverth...

The summer heat is on and Fenestraria, aka Babytoes, is celebrating by...you can guess this...blooming! She starts around dawn and her bloom...