When you buy perennial plants, it’s really the roots that you’re planting; this is what allows the plants to return year after year. If you’re buying the plants, it’s usually either: Container-grown perenni
Densely erupting Milkweed shoots like those pictured above can be thinned to give individual stalks more space, without harming the spreading underground rhizome network. Depending on the specific conditions surrounding them, stalks packed in this tightly may even fall over as they grow to full hei...
Turmeric keeps popping up in many dishes and I am beginning to develop quite a fondness for it. In its raw form it is a rhizome that looks like ginger. Long before it was used in cooking; it mainly served as a potent dye for obvious reasons. As a staple of herbal medicine, it has ...
Vivien Goldman released her first full-length album, “Next Is Now,” produced by Youth of Killing Joke. Following its release, Goldman hit the road in support of the record. Last August, Goldman teamed up with DC duo Dunia & Aram for a special outdoor concert at Rhizome DC. ...
“Augured sump drain/root channel bores” are simply modified French drains. French drains serve to move free water (i.e., water that is not in soil pores) somewhere. Where “somewhere” is in this case is unclear. French drains and other drainage systems do NOT reduce the amount of wate...
A new owner ruled here with absolute authority, a man of puissance and influence, his secret organization growing like the greedy stems of a fast spreading rhizome plant, everywhere the undiscerning soil of humanity permitted it to flourish. The tyrant of this hidden empire purchased the entire ...
Rhizome Salve n. A usually horizontal stem that grows underground, is marked by nodes from which roots grow down, and branches out to produce a network of new plants growing up from the nodes. [sæv] A soothing ointment prepared from n. beeswax combined with oil, usually medicinal oil,...