2023: Year of the Rudbeckia
Who doesn’t love a mass of bright yellow flowers that are humming with pollinators in the summer garden? It’s noContinue Reading
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When you think about it, it’s pretty amazing to be able to cut off a piece of a plant toContinue Reading
The 10 Best Indoor Houseplants to Help You Sleep?
The 10 best houseplants to help you sleep? More like the zero best plants! There is so much misinformation outContinue Reading
How to Differentiate Haworthias and Gasterias?
The interest in succulents often begins with the purchase of a few “too cute” little plants simply identified as “assortedContinue Reading
Dead Flowers
You can send me dead flowers. Dead Flowers by the Rolling Stones Whether you grow your own or just pickContinue Reading
Gardening Book of the Month: January 2023
Houseplants for All: How to Fill Any Home with Happy Plants By Danae Horst Danae Horst, founder of Los Angeles-basedContinue Reading
Bananas: Expiration Date in Sight
The end of the banana as we know it may be near. Far be it from me to be alarmist,Continue Reading
2023: Year of the Celosia
Celosia is a unique annual for the garden with its brightly colored flowers and textures that beg to be touched. WonderingContinue Reading
Nature Didn’t Make Cacti and Succulents on a Whim
Nature did not make cacti and succulents on a whim. They are the product of a long evolution that tookContinue Reading
Back to the Garden
I have fond childhood memories of the seed catalogues my father received in the mail. There were all kinds, shapes,Continue Reading