I thought I would show some pictures of a few of my little Venus flytrap seedlings.  They don't grow as fast as I would like, but every ...

About nine or ten months ago I planted some sundew seeds .  They were seeds from a relatively common and simple to grow sundew called Droser...

Papalo is an ancient herb that is commonly grown and eaten in South and Central America but is practically unheard of here.  Finding seeds o...

Quillquiña (also spelled quilquiña, quillquina, quilquina, and probably a few other ways) is an ancient herb that is similar to papalo.  Whi...

This summer has been exceedingly harsh and many of my plants did not cope.  One of the few plants that coped this summer was hops ( Humulus ...

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...