My Life Among the Lithops (and Other Strange Plants)

As all Alert Gardeners know, our planet's climate is a' changin'. We have all had to be much more alert than usual to these chan...

Yes, this was another orchid rescue. I confess, most of my orchids are rescue orchids because I had no confidence in myself as an orchid gar...

This is our storm season and we've really had some whoppers recently. Check out these clouds and double rainbows: Double Rainbow, ...

This last week, I've been visiting with family. We've had some extremely weird cloud formations and storms here on the Family Sand D...

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...