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Scadoxus nutans is a plant in the family Amaryllidoideae, but it isn't your grandmother's Christmas amaryllis. S . nutans is endem...

It's been almost a year and my Nepenthes seedlings were beginning to crowd their pots, so it was time to separate them. I selected the ...

When someone mentions the word "orchid," the imagination conjures up images of large, colorful or even gaudy blossoms that ooze ex...

We usually grow plants for the beauty of their flowers or foliage. Sometimes, though, we simply cannot resist the bizarre. This fleshy ...

It's been a while since I updated this blog. I've been finishing a book manuscript (not at all related to plants, alas) and haven...

A few months ago, I acquired a few Oeceoclades from The Huntington Botanical Gardens : O. maculata , O. peyrotii , and O. spathulifera. The...

Peat is ubiquitous in horticulture. A lot of gardeners turn to peat moss as an amendment to loosen up clumpy soil. Those who grow carnivorou...