My Life Among the Lithops (and Other Strange Plants)

Oh, the Brexit.... Anyone else ever felt this way? Now it's so hard  to forget what I fought so hard for so long to remembe...

I've been getting up earlier these days so that I can watch the sun rise. It's worth it. Really. This new habit has become a reali...

Tillie of the Month is back! Today's Tillie of the Future is T. araujei, a hard-to-spell and harder-to-pronounce (ahr-OO-zhay-ee), thin ...

Pauline and Henry, Ravens-in-Residence at Wellesley, had a nest of five eggs, and four of those were viable and hatched. Three of the young ...

This is turtle nesting season, so for us, it means no outdoor lights from dusk till dawn, and for our local university students, it means co...

Guest Poet Andrew Adar wrote this to go with today's post about palms. And it's true, palms are close relatives of corn and turf gra...

I've been training in herbalism for a while now (I'm an RN and I go by "Nurse Mary") and I really love it. I prefer to go ...