Well, this post may not really contain much green in it since most of it is purple. Some of the shades of green on the larger leaves are pretty cool though. What you see in the photo is about the size

​The amazing avocado tree that never should have been. This is an update on the tree that was dead and dried up in a pile of old pots. Then found and watered. ​I have never seen an avocado flower. I am

We are starting to get longer days as we break out of winter now. I got out there and saw that about a half dozen of my carnivorous plants have been invaded by this spiky weed. I tried downloading an app

So it's been winter and I haven't really seen anything worth taking a picture of out in my garden. If you don't believe me, just look at the last couple posts and you will see that things were not looking

I am not sure where it came from, but some of my carnivorous plants have been invaded by stinging nettle. You really don't want to touch this or pull on it while weeding. It feels as if you had been burned

I have been waiting for this day all summer and now that we are going into winter and reaching 50-degrees lows at night time, it's time to harvest. I am thinking that we can just go to one branch and get

This post will be about harvesting a right side up and an upside down tumeric or ginger plant which has been going for the entire summer. Trurmeric I would normally let this go until I'm in need of ginger

Good evening everyone. Today I wanted to do an upside down update. Specifically one lone jalapeno pepper, which came from an upside down plant. First of all, do you all remember this post? You can take

Today I have a large venous fly trap plant that has shrunk down as if it were preparing for winter. But when I looked at it today, I see possibly two or three plants that I should be able to separate.

Before we get to the buds, lets find out how to generate more of those wonderful nuggets...

This one is an update on the ill fated cabbage plant from this post back in October of last year - five months ago. The cover photo is its condition now. from Oct. 2025 This one lived on my front terrace

One week ago, I had comments similar to the title of this blog post. It is not that simple, but today I am going to show you how start to finish. This will answer all the questions I got last week. Here

No buds on either of the two plants I have. But I am seeing sap? or something forming sporadically on the leaves here and there. Then, I guess, the wind blows and I get several leaves stuck together in

I have consolidated the three trays in which new plants come into existence. I am using a much larger trey now and the babies have all moved to the new location, all in one tray, and am going to try to

These plants do not need umbrellas, they are 100% hydrophobic right from nature. I was able to find a places where a bit of water was stuck in a place where all sides went up, in a bowl of sorts, and it

What did you eat? Pitcher plants are limited to what fits or what does not. The Sarracenia is doing quite well, each pitcher is about seven to eight inches tall. There are two tall leaves on this plant.

I made a lot of posts featuring something planted upside down over the last year. Today, I thought I would update you on a few of those experiments. Here's one. But you say, "This one is planted

There was a plant already here when I moved in. It was an invader really. It belonged to the neighbor next door, so the roots were taking up water from over there. The wall between us is 8 feet high and

Fixed that - Quick update on the 3D printed, luxury, high-rise condo-complex, for my carnivorous plants. The first topic is that it takes hours to print each one of these funny looking odd shaped pots

It is that time. I am always looking for a way to save space and towers of plants is one of those ways. So let's see if growing vegetables in a tower is even possible. This could get messy - I started