Strawberry spinach is sort of a dual crop, the leaves are edible raw or cooked and taste much like spinach.  The berries look like mulberrie...

Here in Australia (and a few other countries) we refer to the leaf of Coriandrum sativum as ‘coriander’, and the seeds/fruits of the same p...

Several years ago I was at a plant nursery looking over their various herbs. Among the usual collection of common herbs were ‘winter savory’...

Years ago I used to grow a tomato with the angora leaf gene.  This gene causes extra/branched trichomes on leaves and stems giving them a fl...

The air quality over the last five or so weeks has been pretty bad due to all the bush fire smoke.  So far we have been lucky and there hasn...

Edible chrysanthemum is also known as garland chrysanthemum, chop suey greens, shungiku, crown daisy, Japanese greens, chrysanthemum greens,...

At some stage I will probably write some posts about how I grow carnivorous plants. Unlike most of this blog, the following is not my work...

For a few years I have been growing a pumpkin called "kaempw melon rilon".  I quite like it.  It is productive, tastes good, and i...

Back around August 2018 I started some string of pearls ( Senecio rowleyanus ) cuttings in water.  I removed the lower few leaves (pearls) ...

I haven't grown venus flytraps from seed in years.  I used to enjoy it, so I gave it another go recently.  Growing Venus flytraps from s...

My daughter grew a dahlia (and a bunch of other flowers) from seed last year.  She was proud of herself, I was proud of her too.  We left it...

Spider plants ( Chlorophytum comosum ) have a bunch of fun names including hen and chickens, airplane plant, ribbon plant, spider ivy, St Be...

My lawn is buzzing, but only in the morning.  Then it is silent. Persian speedwell ( Veronica persica ) is one of the many flowering weeds...