This week I bought a lovely little butterwort, Pinguicula sethos (an intergeneric hybrid between P ehlersiae and P moranensis ).  It is in...

Huacatay ( Tagetes minuta ), is also called Peruvian Black Mint, is an annual herb commonly grown across the Peruvian Andes and less commonl...

A few years ago I heard of a plant called banana mint.  It was said to be a mint plant (either a Mentha species, or hybrid of several Ment...

When I was younger I grew a lot of carnivorous plants.  I loved them.  I started with Drosera capensis, gained some skills, and slowly bui...

We got my son some Spiny Leaf Insects ( Extatosoma tiaratum ) as a Christmas present.  I have never kept these before, so it is an adventure...

My wife likes candles.  I have beehives and I have collected and rendered some beeswax from them.  I bet you can guess where this is headed....

I have been growing potatoes from true potato seed for a while now.  I grow a few diploid potatoes, some tetraploids, and I have a wild rela...

I love mulberries.  I have a few mulberry trees and really should get some more.  They are such an underrated tree and they have so many use...

Drosera capensis was the first carnivorous plant that I ever grew successfully.  I got my first plant when I was a school student, I tended...

I grow a few different varieties of venus flytrap.  I like them.  When grown from seed they tend to display a lot of genetic diversity and e...