POSTED BY KIM — Interesting things are always going on at my little house. I have two crazy kids, two crazy cats, two (new) dwarf hamsters, and butterflies in the kitchen. (Not to mention my husband — don’t get me started!
Every year my kids and I collect Monarch butterfly eggs and caterpillars from [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Tropicals’
October 7, 2009
Butterflies in the kitchen
October 6, 2009
Behold the (trumpets blowing) Colocasia ‘Diamond Head’
POSTED BY KIM — This baby is more than 6 feet tall — it’s a monster! And the black coloring is stunning. Caleb planted two specimens in his garden here, and the one that is on “higher ground” (this means less water, since it travels downhill to this monster) is a few feet shorter. So [...]
September 21, 2009
A quick look at what’s blooming on my deck
POSTED BY KIM — Even though the season is winding down, I was out on my deck this morning and saw my passion flower vine blooming. Yay! It was a bittersweet moment because it was the first bloom of the season, and here we are in late September. I overwintered this plant last year in [...]
August 18, 2009
My Garden Giant
As anybody who’s been around me lately knows, I’m leaving my two garden havens – my home in Perry County and the nursery in Kirkwood – for landscape architecture school in Manhattan, Kansas. These last few days before moving, I’m spending as much time as I can enjoying my plants.
I’m going to miss this big guy…
One [...]
March 5, 2009
Orchids: the bawdiest flowers in the plant world
POSTED BY KIM — I visited the orchid show at the Missouri Botanical Garden earlier this week. WOW. If you are suffering from any kind of seasonal affective disorder (when the gray winter days start getting you down), then RUN, don’t walk, to MoBot and these orchids will *slap you across the face* and yell “SNAP [...]
November 10, 2008
The Great Tropical Plant Experiment of 2008
POSTED BY KIM — I went a little overboard with the tropical plants this summer. That is one of the dangers of working at Sugar Creek — you see all the beautiful plants as they’re unloaded or as they bloom, so you often shop as you work. We all do it — not just me!
So [...]
November 7, 2008
Now Blooming in Zone 10b
POSTED BY PEGGY: I recently had the opportunity to visit Key West, Florida. My visit just happened to fall during Fantasy Fest which is sometimes referred to as “Naked Mardi Gras.” Needless to say, I saw some truly amazing sights.
I stayed with my dear friends Simone and Senor Lobo. Tired of St. Louis winters, they [...]
