17 Jan I Love Rudbeckia hirta
Name: Rudbeckia hirta aka black eyed Susans Type of Plant: Biennial that is sometimes grown as an annual. Grows 2 to 3 feet tall, often self-hybridizing and appearing with a...
03 Jan How To Grow Anthuriums Indoors
Name: Anthurium species and varieties, aka flamingo flower (or so I read…everyone I know just calls them “Anthuriums.”) Type of Plant: Herbaceous epiphytes that grow in tropical areas from Central...
01 Jan A New Year’s Television Detour
If you're only here for the plants and gardening, skip this post. But on this New Year's Day I'm looking at the offerings on selected television stations and thinking about...
27 Dec I Love The Long-Blooming Patrinia scabiosifolia
Name: Patrinia scabiosifolia aka patrinia Type of Plant: Long blooming perennial with upright flower stems that grow to about four feet tall. The flowers and their calyxes are a bright...
26 Dec Expectations and Mail Order Plants
(This piece was originally posted ten years ago on my first blog, Whole Life Gardening.) My first experience with mail order was in the mid-1950’s. In the back of my mother’s...
20 Dec I Love Billbergia nutans aka The Queen’s Tears
Name: Queen’s tears bromeliad, aka Bilbergia nutans, or friendship plant. Type of Plant: An epiphytic bromeliad native to South America. The shallow roots are used for anchoring the plant onto...