Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Carnivorous plants go vegan!

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The carnivorous common sundew ( Drosera rotundifolia ) traps insects by attracting them with its bright red color, getting them stuck to ...
Monday, June 11, 2012

Stinky

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A Titan Arum ( Amorphophallus titanum ) blooms in January 2011 in  Cairns, Australia , for the 1st time in 5 years. Below are some of the ...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Pleistocene plant

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Like me, you may have seen this on the news last night ( video here , scroll down ), but the brief report left me wanting more details. And ...
Friday, January 13, 2012

New carnivorous plant

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Remember the genuflecting plant I blogged about in September? Well, this newly discovered one has an even neater trick. It may not look lik...
Friday, December 23, 2011

Frankincense & myrrh

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" And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when th...
Thursday, November 17, 2011

Imprisoned pears

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Thanks to another e-mail* making the rounds, I learned that the full-size pears in pear brandy are grown inside the bottle. Curious, I went ...
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Sunday, September 25, 2011

Geocarpy a.k.a. genuflecting

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A new word for today: Geocarpy n . Botany. A method in which some plants distribute their fruit by injecting the ovary into the soil though ...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Proud gardener

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“ Obviously I am over the moon. Winning these competitions is great, but in the vegetable growing world, the heaviest onion title is t...
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Monday, August 8, 2011

Some SEM seeds

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Do you remember the Sesame Street song " One of these Things is Not Like the Others... "? Appropriately enough...
Sunday, July 31, 2011

Heart-shaped potatoes

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" Buh-day-duhs ," as my maternal grandfather John P. Dunne (1911-1994) used to pronounce them, grow in many anomalous shapes - whi...
Sunday, June 12, 2011

Our garden

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Despite a lot of greenery to choose from, I have decided which of the plants in our luscious garden is my favorite: the canna lily . There i...
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