My Life Among the Lithops (and Other Strange Plants)

Here in the tropics, and in many other places, prescribed fire means life. I'm not talking about the horrible conflagrations that come f...

High temp records have been tumbling all over the globe this summer and last night I think there were a record number of tropical cyclones a...

I have been gearing up for the start of the new school year, which is coming very early in 2015. Not much going on in the gardening world, t...

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...