For years I have wanted an African Violet.  For some reason or another I have never bought one.   Nowhere around here seems to sell them.  I...

A few years ago I had a small aquarium that had no filter and was cleaned using aquaponics.  It was a tiny system with Endler's livebear...

I attempted to hybridise a strawberry with a raspberry, and I wrote numerous blog posts along the way documenting the progress.  I produced ...

I bought my son some spiny leaf insects for Christmas.  They were rather small when we got them.  They have grown so much! My son wants to h...

I grew some glass gem corn with the kids.  I planted the seeds in blocks of similar colours.  Some of the pinks grew almost exclusively pink...

I played around with aquaponics on a very small scale a few years ago.  I had a small tank of ornamental fish in a classroom.  The water sta...

A while ago I looked into a bucket of water that was in my garden and found a fly.  It looks like no other fly I have ever seen.  I once stu...

I love maidenhair ferns, they are such graceful plants.   I got a tiny maidenhair fern back in 2016 as an office fern , and since then it ha...