Indoor Plant Care Tips Guide

Paphiopedilum Memoria Larry Heuer is a cross between Paphiopedilum malipoense (previously) and Paphiopedilum emersonii. I don't think I have any particularly strong feelings about it one way or the other.

After hearing a while back that Cordyline glauca was a man-made hybrid, I attempted to track down its origins for this post, and found a few sites implying that it wasn't a hybrid at all, that it was actually a variety of Cordyline brasiliensis. So then I went looking for information about Cordyline brasiliensis, but GRIN has never heard of C. brasiliensis, Plant List was apparently broken

Spent a lot of yesterday moving plants outside, and then (after looking at the weather forecast) back inside again. The location is sort of new: the husband poured a slab of concrete on the north side of the garage last fall, which means I've got a decent-sized, mostly-shaded, level surface to fill up with plants this summer. Unfortunately, they're not accustomed to outdoor light yet, so even

DISCLAIMER 1: I was not provided a copy of this book for review by Timber Press, and am a little irritated about this because they knew I wanted one. Instead, I paid for my copy. Like a commoner. DISCLAIMER 2: I know Tychonievich as an e-mail and blogging acquaintance, and we're on friendly terms as far as I know. (If that's changed, he's neglected to tell me about it, but obviously he's been

The 2013 orchid show was smaller than previous years, it seemed like, and a larger percentage of the orchids they had were in roped-off displays. Not the worst thing in the world, but inconvenient for taking photos, since most of the plants they had were too far away for me to photograph. So at one point I asked a lady sitting behind a table, who seemed official (though I'm not sure who she was

It's been a very long time since I've mentioned Gerberas here. And there's a good reason for that: I don't like them very much. Some of this is because they were hard to keep in the greenhouse (too wet and they mildew, too dry and they wilt), but even the healthy ones seem a little bit too much, in a bad way. Aggressively cheerful motivational speaker types, almost. Like if gerbs could talk,

I was excited about this for about five minutes, when I first saw it. But this is just more foliage, not a flower bud, right?

I've had this particular variety of Haworthia since August 2004. It's never done anything mind-blowing, and it hasn't even looked particularly good for the last several years, but it's survived all kinds of really non-ideal locations for nearly a decade. As you probably know by now, I will happily sing the praises of any plant that happens to be durable, whether or not it has any other redeeming

This one's pretty much what it says in the title; I don't have a lot to say about it. If you're looking for more than this, and how could you not be, check out these links: orchidspecies.com phals.net

It's been a couple weeks now since the first Coffea seedlings emerged from the vermiculite, which may be a good time to report on what's happened since then. The news I find most interesting is that, of the two groups of seedlings (those dried for eight weeks prior to sowing, and those dried for only four or five days prior to sowing), the eight-week group is clearly and obviously doing much