If it is possible, do a rotation between groups of plants to be displayed in your lift landing. After being displayed for a week or two in the dim lift landing, you can shift them to a brighter place to recuperate. Note that many sun-loving plants will quickly deteriorate when they are...
Over the years, I have acquired a list of favorites that sing to me as I garden. Learning the songs of birds is an easy way to know who is near without having to see them. Today’s technology makes this easy because recorded bird songs are available online. Or download an app that...
Both of these groups use more nitrogen than their plants really need, while unintentionally delivering excess nutrients that wash into waterways and harm aquatic ecosystems. The Organic Fertilizer Group relies on fertilizers composed of organic plant or animal matter. These fertilizers include commercial ...
A close acquaintance with cultivated plants and with the multitude of types and their differentiation into geographical groups as well as their frequently sharp physiological isolation from each other compel us to refer the very origin of cultivated plants to such remote epochs, where periods of 5-...
These are often referred to as ‘symbiotic relationships’ (where these organisms have a close association with one another, that may benefit one or both of these groups). You may be familiar with some of these associations, which often involve a honeydew producing insect (such as an aphid ...
For this reason, we have excellent plant sales during the fall, offered by non-profit garden groups that support your gardening success, and of course want to earn money for their activities. These sales offer California natives and other plants that thrive in the Monterey Bay area’s summer-...
but the most beautiful of all was a walled garden in which every flower was blue. There were all the obvious things like delphiniums and acronitums and larkspurs, but the most beautiful blue of all came from the groups of cabbages - the ordinary blue pickling cabbage. Set against the blaz...
In late April one of my groups announced that there were three babies who needed rehoming in Tennessee. I was the closest person available to go get them, so I did it. Two of them did not make it. The finder told me they were looking bad while I was still on my way there and whe...
Only two groups could be responsible: 1) the U.S. government, where a bunch of bureaucrats who make $50 to $100k pre year wade through reams of red tape and rules to try to run an organization with ever more arcane and intricate rules and regulations, or 2) Crooked thieving oligarchs ...
Then there was this really spiny Aloe at Walmart on May 6 I put in my cart (not alone). This one was unlabeled and I had a heck of a time deciding what it was. I put photos on a couple of Facebook Groups and it seemed, at first, one of the suggestions forAloexspinosissimaco...