Plants & Such

USDA Unveils New Plant Hardiness Zone Map / January 25, 2012 / News from the USDA Agricultural Research Service Thought I'd pass this ...

I love how my iris seedling is starting to look like an iris. It seems 'big' in this picture but it is incredibly tiny in the pot...

Wow... I was surprised to see these two poking out of the ground. Dragon Arums. Already? What also surprises me is that these two used ...

My order finally came in! I bought Green Dragon Amaryllis in honor of 2012 being 'Year of the Dragon'. Candy Floss was tossed i...

I'm not one of those lucky people that have a big south-facing window with shelves to help plants gets sun during the winter months so I...

It appears the cutting company is done removing the pine trees from the woods that butt up against the backyard. For us, the focus is now on...

The weather has been really nice for a while. It's 71 degrees right now as I write this. It's shorts-wearing weather. Little gnats s...

Saw this video on Weather.com and just had to share it!

So I go out back while muttering about Old Man Winter's tardiness, see? What do my eyes see? No. Yes. What? Wait... Is this s...

I hope everyone had a very merry Christmas! For Christmas, I received an Amaryllis Bulb kit from Smith and Hawken. It contained a Minerva Am...