I really like maidenhair ferns.  They are one of the few ornamental plants that I will happily grow.  They don't have any use other tha...

Last year I bought a "Big Vigorous" Venus flytrap. The few pictures I had seen on the internet made this look like a great plant, ...

Last year we bought a purple cauliflower from the markets.  I am not a huge fan of cauliflower, but I liked that one.  It was a bit sweeter ...

I grow some varieties of micro tomatoes, the plants themselves reach about 10cm (4 inch) tall.  I also grow another variety of tomato with w...

The other day I was sitting outside talking with my daughter.  I saw something move, and it was a tiny baby praying mantis.   My daughter pu...

Miner's lettuce ( Claytonia perfoliata ) is a delightful short-lived annual leaf vegetable that only grows in cooler weather.  It is not...

Mache ( Valerianella locusta ), also called lamb lettuce, or corn salad, is a small annual leaf vegetable.  It is used raw much like lettuce...

Years ago I grew pymgy sundews, I really liked them.  I had a lot of species back then.  Strangely enough, even though they come from Austra...

A couple of years ago I taught myself how to grow grape hyacinth Muscari armeniacum from seed .  Growing grape hyacinth from seed was reall...

I have grown plants for decades, strangely I have never used a greenhouse.   I once tried those tiny plastic covered ones, the plastic did n...

There are three species of native perennial root vegetable called Yam Daisy (also called Murnong), the one I am growing is Microseris walter...

I have grown a lot of varieties of thyme over the years.  People often describe a variety, yet irritatingly no one ever seems to compare dif...