Over the years I have grown a lot of things from seed that I have been told are not possible, or are too difficult, or will have poor result...

A number of years ago I found a small herb for sale that was labelled as: native river mint - Mentha australis . There are about 25 species ...

A few years ago a Golden orb weaver ( Nephila edulis ) spider made her web on our deck.  She grew huge.  Her web was largely out of the way ...

Parsley ( Petroselinum crispum ) is a great plant that is highly nutritious, undervalued, and underutilised. It should be grown and used as ...

Have you ever looked closely at the skin of a red apple?  Have you ever noticed how it is red where the sun hit and green where it was shade...

Azolla is a free floating fern that has a symbiotic relationship with a filamentous cyanobacteria called Anabaena.  This symbiotic relations...

The other day someone linked to my post on strawberry x raspberry hybrids on Reddit and my blog post got a lot of views.  While this was re...

Years ago we bought a small plant called Pineapple Sage ( Salvia elegans ) .  It was amazing, my kids loved it, I loved it, and it grew well...