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Six Plants I'm Currently Mad At 27 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
This turns out to be a pretty competitive field (wait'll you see the Dishonorable Mentions), but I've narrowed it down to six. By "I'm Currently Mad At," I mean "the idea of throwing the plant away en...
Pretty picture: Cattleya Purple Cascade 25 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
This is the most severe example of my inability to get close to certain orchids at the show. I find these flowers really interesting, and I had hoped that I'd get a usable photo of them from far away,...
Saturday morning frog pictures 24 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
So a month ago, when I posted pictures of a frog I happened to see in the Ananas comosus 'Mongo,' I said I thought the frog in question was only passing through, since it wasn't there the following da...
Unfinished business: Clivia miniata 'Aztec Gold' 23 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
I'd thought maybe, but it looks like I don't get a repeat of the Clivia flowers this year. Ah, well. The seedlings are doing all kinds of different things. Some just sit there. Some get periodically ...
The Black Bees 21 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
I mentioned in June that I've been watching very intently for honeybees this year. I'm not doing it for any particular reason; I've just been curious, what with all the talk of colony collapse disorde...
Question for the Hive Mind: Roadside Weeds / Wildflowers 20 Aug 2013 | 10:23 pm
The second and third of these are technically not roadside plants, but the first one is: I don't recall ever seeing it before, but they're everywhere all of a sudden. UPDATE: it's a Vernonia (ironwe...
Pretty picture: Dendrobium Frosty Dawn 'Yen' 19 Aug 2013 | 02:12 am
I've spent the last five days moving plants in at night and out in the morning -- we had a run of temperatures below 60F/16C. A lot of the plants that are outside will handle that fine (Agave, Strelit...
And then 16 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
And then the scale came back. In a room where I hadn't seen them previously (husband's office; the plant was the parent Pereskia aculeata var. godseffiana). Posting may be a bit off and on for a while...
Random plant event: Sansevieria cylindrica 15 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Blogging in a hurry today, again, because I've realized that the post I'd planned for today is going to require me to get some more pictures; this was also the problem with the post I'd planned for We...
Pretty picture: Hibiscus 'Heartthrob' 13 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Not a lot to say about this one; it was at the ex-job, and I noticed it partly because hardy Hibiscus flowers are very difficult to ignore, and partly because I'd already been noticing them around in ...
