Like many succulents, aloes are easy houseplants. This one is lace aloe. It’s small and fits nicely on a windowsill where it gets full sun.
Read more →Ponytail palm, Beaucarnea recurvata, isn’t a palm at all. It’s an interesting houseplant though, like a Dr. Seuss tree with long, flowing, grass-like leaves on top of a stick on a bowling ball.
Read more →This poor moth orchid (Phalaenopsis) js in deep trouble. It isn’t dead, yet, but the roots have rotted because water can’t drain out of this container.
Read more →Chinese evergreen, Aglaonema, is one of those nearly foolproof houseplants widely used in interiorscaping of shopping malls, hospitals, and other public spaces. It’s a gorgeous addition to any home as well. Keep it away from pets and kids, it’s an aroid.
Read more →Aluminum plant is a handsome little houseplant with metallic silvery blotches on the leaves. Ours is now about one foot tall and wide. It sits on an east windowsill in quiet elegance.
Read more →Here’s another Anthurium (A. crystallinum) that makes a great houseplant. This one is grown for the fantastic foliage, however, not the flowers.
Read more →Anthurium, aka flamingo flower, makes a wonderful flowering houseplant that blooms continuously. Flowers come in red, pink, orange, white, and lavender. We have a pink one that’s been flowering non-stop for more than two years.
Read more →Leeks, kale, and Brussels sprouts are still growing in our garden despite several days of freezing temps in the mid-twenties F. Still have a couple cabbages too.
Read more →Looking forward to our blueberries on a very cold winter morning. We have 12 blueberry bushes on our little urban farmette and, in summer, we harvest enough to freeze. Delicious with our homemade yogurt!
Read more →Freeze fresh figs as soon as they’re ripe to make figsickles to enjoy any time of year. We’ll have figsickles today, New Year’s Day 2016, as part of our feasting celebration.
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