You know the sounds of your house, and when you hear something that’s not one of them, you know it. That ain’t right, and I
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If you’re a Hoya head, you’ve heard the whine from other plant people: “Hoya? But they all look the same…” We pay them no mind.

If you’ve decided to take the plunge into plants, it can be tough to know where to start. The selection, even in a big box

We’ve been friends for a long time; a really long time. We don’t always share the same interest in the same plants, but we share

You know how you know what you know, until you know that you don’t. Philodendrons were old lady plants. My grandmother had one. My mother

In the spring of 2020 I saw this Calathea roseopicta ‘Medallion’ in a big box store. I think I stopped in my tracks. I knew

One of my favorite serendipitous finds is this Gasteria ‘Little Warty’. On a visit to a big box store, I decided to scan the trays

Not everyone travels well, and there are all sorts of maladies associated with not having your feet on solid ground. So when my new Dischidia

Freed from the confines of their polyester prison, the new Hoya pubicalyx cuttings were in need of a new home. They needed someplace where they

I remember many years ago, in the early 1960s, my mother bought a houseplant. I was very young. I don’t think I’d ever heard the