“How’s that Burl Ives plant doin’?” Dad would ask. He sort of remembered the name of only one of my plants, which is far better
Author: Planted in RI
I first saw this guy online in someone’s video. They were supposedly a little hard to come by, so I had few expectations and little
I really like epiphytes, and I have a good number of them. But Dischidia ovata, Watermelon Dischidia, is one of my favorites. It’s too bad
I have only ever purchased two orchids. I have twelve of them. You mention that your orchid is blooming again. Someone mentions that theirs never
My mother had a Philodendron hederaceum, and I’ll be the first to admit that it looked far better than either of mine do. It was
My grandmother grew African violets. I remember tables of them in the big bay window of the old house where they lived. There were so
I’d only ever seen Hoya caudata ‘Sumatra’ online, and I wasn’t sure that I liked it. More accurately, sometimes I liked it, sometimes I didn’t,
I had an old strawberry pot that I didn’t want to replant. I needed a bit of evening lighting in my enclosed porch. I had
An unlooked for lucky find; that’s what it was. I was at a local nursery earlier this week, looking for something else. And as one
I didn’t like Syngonium; the muted colors, the chaotic vining, the frilly leaves. Then I saw this one at a local nursery and that all