When I was young I grew a cape sundew ( Drosera capensis ), it lived for many years and was rather large by the end.  It was the first carni...

You don't see many non-photosynthetic plants, which is probably a good thing.  I am not talking about fungi, they are not plants.  I am ...

This year I grew some buckwheat.   I grew buckwheat mostly for the flowers, it was planted so late that the frost will likely kill it before...

I decided to start recording flowering times each week over a year, this helps me to know when my bees have ample food and when they may str...

When I was young I heard amazing stories of how sunflowers ( Helianthus annuus ) turn their flowers throughout the day to follow the sun. T...

There are very few red fleshed apple varieties available in Australia at the moment.  One is called 'Red Love'.  Apparently there ar...

Recently I received an email from someone who claimed to work for Sparpeia.ch offering to nominate my blog for the "Flower Blog Awards...

This past year I grew a rare variety of pea named Marshall’s bananaphone . What an amazing name! I grew them in the hope of building up se...

Last year I tried to do a bit more wide plant breeding.  I have a few things I am trying that may or may not be worth doing, but it is fun ...

Earlier I wrote a post on strawberry x raspberry hybrid experiment update , now it is time for a description of the berries (botanically the...

It is time for an update on my strawberry x raspberry hybrid experiment.  Strawberry x Raspberry hybrid semi double flower (it is missing...

Recently when I have had a few conversations with people, often they are self-confessed "foodies", and I have mentioned that we us...

A while ago I found a bee forage map .  You can drag it to your address, change between miles and kilometers, zoom in and out, change betwee...

Have you ever heard about kumato tomatoes? For years I have heard how amazing these tomatoes taste and how very sweet they are. I read...