My Ginger seems to be thriving. It has sent up a second green shoot, a thin piercing spike pointing at the sky. I was wondering when it woul...

A few weeks ago I cut out the crown of my oldest african Violet. It's now regrowing, a circle of tiny new leaves around the edge of the ...

Still no photos to show, but a little report on my garden that got move to friend's back deck. Turns out even the fuller sun there wasn...

My Croton is growing vigorously, and the rooted piece in water has a new tiny baby leaf! Toddler says of its multiplying root growth: "...

I upended most of my ailing plants on the balcony. And found that their demise has mostly been my error. I recall now, I had read somewhere ...

I still like to keep track of what's going on with the plants, even though there are no images to grace the pages right now. Of note, la...

I have removed all the old petioles that were rooting in plastic sub-irrigated containers, and gently separated out the baby African Violet ...

My camera died. Not surprised, it was kinda old and had been dropped several times. And I have a not-smart phone that doesn't take any k...

I haven't made note of my little fishy friends for a while; mostly because I always feel frustrated at getting good photos to share, and...

My Stevia has once again broken in the wind. I haven't done a good job at keeping it cut down. So instead I've tried starting cut...

This plant continues to grow and grow. It flops over when too lengthy so I often give it a trim just to keep it standing up, if I'm no...

There are still some good things happening on my balcony. The miniature Rose seems to be reviving well. My Sage is sprouting new growth a...

Lately I feel like all the notes I make about plants here is about failure. I have lost more. The heat gets to me and then I tend to forget ...

I've finally moved this most recent of the Spider Plant clan off its parent stem and out of that grouping, to a corner in my bedroom w...

All the chances and experiments I take with plants, only some work out. I tried germinating Orange seed a month ago, and only got mold. Trie...

Another tall stem of my Stevia plant has broken. Lying sideways. All is not lost; it appears to be regrowing small shoots from where the ...

My coneflowers have been visited recently by fat bees and a few butterflies, but of course I reacted too slow to get a picture. There see...

One of my favorite herbs to put in eggs. Now that I've cut back all the Green Onions (recently eaten in enchiladas- yum!) can see thei...

I just love all the different little variations in shape and pattern of Fern fronds. Not sure what the species is, but very pretty! ...

Potted up again; it's growing fast!