What’s Blooming – My Key West Garden in May
It’s great to head outside, write my morning papers anytime of the year and check out what’s blooming all year long. I have a tiny…
Gardening
Varieties of Florida Flora and Fauna
Key West Garden Club had their semi-annual sale and I was one of the first in line and straight to the orchid house. Have you…
Potting Orchids from Redlands
I have been looking for the Renantheres since last year when I spotted on in full bloom. It was red, and I mean blood red…
The Case of the Disappearing Bananas
Anyone who lives here, knows the score – if you grow bananas, you watch them develop with trepidation knowing that yours are not the only…
March Garden
This has been a nearly perfect winter. After the cold and wet season of 2010, there was only a single period in January that was…
Garden Stories – Montreal Roots
I have always been fascinated by gardens. Entering a garden or a nursery is a thrill, a destination, not a chore. It took me some…
Early February Garden
Two weeks ago the city cut down two of my neighbor’s Coconut Palms to put sidewalks in. The palms weren’t really in the way, I…
Free Orchid Classes in Key West
If you have received what looks like an expensive and difficult plant for Christmas and don’t want to kill it . . . If you…
December Garden
I just did a small garden clean-up and planting to usher in 2011. I still have to take out the leaf blower to tidy up….
Eclipse Unnerves Local Flora, Fauna in Key West
This image of the total eclipse of the moon, photographed from a rooftop in Key West, ushered in the winter solstice. A total lunar eclipse…