Plants & Such

Slapped up the 13th Purple Mom/Black Dad flower that came up. You can find it here:  Cross-Pollinated Bearded Iris (Black and Purple) 05...

You know, I think crossing bearded irises might be more fun than crossing amaryllis/hippeastrum... I started a new 'page' on this bl...

Have you ever established a garden bed and then hated it later? I am going through that right now. The beauty that is my long amarylli...

Orange-tipped Oakworm moth I have to admit I was surprised to find the name of this one. Usually I do a search and can never find any...

Oops. Totally slipped my mind. I took a picture of the cross-pollinated iris this afternoon and meant to go out to take a better picture whe...

Ah, Cherub's Smile (Van Zyverden) has bloomed at last. Do you remember the  personal note I left to myself  to remember the name of the ...

I wasn't going to originally post any pictures until all had bloomed but, man, it's taking forever. Some of the flowers have been pe...

Besides having a ton-bunch of bark mulch and oil-dri sitting around after repotting my adenium obesum, I had some poultry grit left over in ...

I finally got a Desert Rose (Adenium Obesum) from Lowe's. March 29, 2013 - Desert Rose After doing lots of research on the gritty...

I was asked about how well my cross-pollinated Iris were doing. In 2011 I had finally successfully cross-pollinated a purple iris with a bla...