Between Life and Death: The Seed That Defies Time
Welcome to this special edition of the Laidback Gardener’s Big Circus tent. That’s right! Your cheers were so deafening thatContinue Reading
Category: Halloween
Trick or Treat? Both for These “Carnivorous” Plants!
You’re back, dear audience, for the apotheosis of our Great Plant Circus of the Laidback Gardener! It’s a pleasure toContinue Reading
This Halloween, a Carved Pumpkin… Asian Style
On the eve of Halloween, many children, and adults too, will take great pleasure in carving pumpkins into gargoyles: sometimesContinue Reading
Create a Gothic Garden
Does the idea of wandering through a cemetery at night enchant you? Do you like Victorian aesthetics? Do the strange,Continue Reading
Ephedra: Cure or Poison?
Come one, come all! The fourth show in the Halloween series is about to begin at the Laidback Gardener’s GreatContinue Reading
This Deadly Plant Has Its Doll’s Eye on You
This week’s show promises to be an emotional one. The Laidback Gardener’s circus of plants will stop at nothing forContinue Reading
Hydnora: Fact or Fiction?
Welcome back to the big top for an extraordinary act by the great Laiback gardener plant circus. If you missedContinue Reading
Illuminate your garden this Halloween with the Chinese lantern
There are Christmas plants, Valentine’s plants, Easter plants. And now there’s a Halloween plant. Yet the plant itself is nothingContinue Reading
A predator faster than the eye: the bladderwort
October at last! Are you ready for my traditional Halloween series? After unloved animals in the garden in 2022 andContinue Reading
Aconitum Napellus: Queen of Poisons, a Plant Born From the Saliva of Cerberus Himself.
To round off this Halloween series on poisonous plants, I’d like to offer you an article on a plant that’sContinue Reading