Indoor Plant Care Tips Guide

Previously. Miltoniopsis Echo Bay = Miltoniopsis Woodlands x Miltoniopsis Rose Bay

So the Dracaena fragrans 'Sol' that I've had since February 2008 has produced a sucker. This is the first time I've seen a D. fragrans do this, and I actually had kind of forgot that it was even a possibility, so this was a nice surprise. That said, I'm not really sure what to do about it; at one point, the prospect of having propagatable material for this plant would have been fantastic,

The itching came back; last Friday was incredibly bad, though most days have been so light as to have been mostly ignorable, and it only seems to be happening on days when I take showers, so I'm beginning to think that maybe my skin's become allergic to being clean, or something. The contractors are back too, which is less terrible, but we've discovered a big patch of mold in my office, so

The continuing story of Why Is Mr. Subjunctive So Damned Itchy All The Time: Medical professionals have been consulted. Unfortunately, by the time I saw a doctor, the itching hadn't happened for a few days,1 so there was nothing to show anybody, not that they would have seen anything in the first place, because it never looked like anything, but there was even more nothing to see than usual. And

I seem to have accidentally fallen into a blogging-hiatus hole. Among other problems to be detailed below, I'm really coming to despise the plant collection:1 they appear to be playing a game of chicken, to see which of them can have the most and largest problems without getting thrown in the trash. (Currently neck and neck for the lead: Agave desmettiana and Agave americana.) Meanwhile, we've

My last surviving grandparent died last week. This both was and was not a big deal, and consumed enough of my week that I was unable to work much on the blog, so posting will probably be light for a while until I can catch up. Funerals remain horrible things that are not remotely consoling. I really have no idea why anyone would ever want one.1 There was more family politics involved with this