I have found a new member of the insect plague in my garden. It's not just whitefly, aphids, Japanese beetles, stink bugs, caterpillars ...

My last two aponogeton crispus. How I am going to miss that plant. As the smaller one was even smaller than I had estimated - I would have ...

I fed the window tank fishes after dark, again. Perry was faster nipping his individual bits of flake off the surface, then he immediately w...

to doing a few things the way I used to. Thinking how much better my old garden did than this one. It's not just the lack of attention I...

I rubbed seed off the orange/pink celosia flower. Here's a tiny tuft of it. Also this week gathered tithonia seed from a few flower h...

butterfly on tithonia. they are frequent visitors, but this is the first time I managed to get decent photos. Next year I am planting...

I saw the cat outside looking at something intently in the grass. I went over, thinking it had found a snake or large insect. It was a chipm...

I'm still occasionally finding a pile of deer droppings in the back yard. The hanging soap seems to be working? at least, my chard and...

Well my ten-gallon has one fish in it now- This week it was getting too cold at night; I moved over the little otocinclus. Here he is- at...

for my main tank. I ordered from a different company this time- WetPlants- figured it would get to me quick as they are located relatively c...

Night before last I fed Perry his flakes topside, then slid a few sinking wafers in for the cories, after dark. Perry must have noticed afte...

This is the striped kuhli I was so worried about, always thinner than the others. Not any more! I really think it is from two things: once...

I'm noticing more changes since I took out those large apono crispus. (Cool weather is the best to ship plants- I mailed subwassertang t...