One of the world’s most famous garden designs is Vita-Sackville-West’s white garden at England’s Sissinghurst Castle. This landscape favors white shades in both blossom and foliage color. A comparably monochromatic effect could be developed with any of several other colors, but the more popul...
When I took the plants to the front porch, I checked bothAmorphophallusby sticking my finger in the hole where the petiole (stem) was before. Both had sprouted but it takes a while for them to emerge from potting soil. After a while, one came up but the other was still way down in ...
Tweit “For nearly seven years, I wrote and read “WildLives,” a weekly nature of life commentary on public radio in southern New Mexico and West Texas. Then my late husband and I moved home to a small town in the rural Southern Rockies, and with no public radio station nearby, the...
The genusLasiahas been believed to be a monotypic genus until 1997 when a wild population of anew species,Lasia concinna, was discovered in a paddy field in West Kalimantan in Indonesia. LikeLasia spinosa, the farmer there had been growing them for its edible young leaves. ThisLasiaspecies had...
The thirtyish West Wing transvestites who have actually been running the country since January 20, 2020. “Hold his hand steady. Make the loop on the ‘J’ bigger.” Is it possible Jeff Dunham is the president? The victims kind of asked for it. They live in Baltimore. It’s like ...
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Hoya polyneura lives in this West facing (bathroom) window with my variegated String of Hearts. #3 – Philodendron gigas– I haven’t had a chance to grow my plant into a large specimen plant yet, but it isn’t hard to see its potential for greatness. The leaves actually shine. I’m...
Sunday, Oct. 6 8:00 am-1:00 pmPlanting and WeedingCentral Park Sunday, Oct. 13 1:00 pm-5:00 pmHarvesting and CompostingRiverside Park Sunday, Oct. 27 9:00 am-2:00 pmGarden Clean-UpWest End Park 1. What is the aim of the Community Gardening Initiative?
" "Rebel Without a Cause," and "West Side Story." By the time she was 25, Wood had beennominated for three Oscars. Wood continued to work in the industry up until her mysterious drowning at the age of 43. In 2018, Wood's husband, the actor Robert Wagner, wasnamed as a "person ...
Before settling down to resume his medical career Friedrich decided to make an extended journey into the farthest West. Scraping together his meager savings, he left the banks of the Mississippi in the spring of 1839 as a member of one of the annual expeditions of the Rocky Mountain Fur Compa...