If it helps any, it is a rhizomatous begonia. The stems will have reddish 'hair' if it is. They need filtered light (I am looking in my Better...
Allergic or not, some plants are just plain ol' poison, such as hemlock. I keep forgetting if it was Plato or Aristotle, but they made one of...
Anything ORGANIC that gets rid of tomato horn worms ?
To my knowledge it is only the poke berries that are poisonous. However they do make lovely dye. The bigger the leaves though, the more bitter...
I will look for more of it and try again.
No sign of them at all. I guess they died.
I have been confused by the pictures of white daisies on chamomile pictures, and they look very much alike. A friend posted on FB about how good...
That is awesome... Lucky you!
The fawn went with its mother in the night... I was surprised that it was just out of reach of my dogs. My dogs were quite excited, and the fawn...
Yesterday, my dogs were carrying on for a long time, so I finally went and looked. There was a new fawn just a short distance from them. They are...
I am planting marigolds all over, but they do not seem to be effective at repelling Japanese beetles, or tomato cutworms.... I refuse to use...
A few weeks ago, I was looking up the name of a common 'weed' here, that actually has some good uses. It is Purple Deadnettle (lamium purpureum)...
I had totally forgotten this post. I have 2 herbal books, "The Green Pharmacy" by James A. Duke, PhD, which I like best of the two books. I...
Would this also be the spot for medicinal herbs? (some are thought of as 'weeds')
I don't care to use rosemary in cooking, but would like to try making soaps with it. I love the smell, just not so much the taste. I do LOVE...
To keep cats and pets out of house plants, you can sprinkle black pepper on the soil around your houseplants. It doesn't take more than a few...
I just used a spike from an old solar light to mark where I planted them. ... today I mowed about 1/2 of my yard which is very large -- 3...
Those are pretty. I have peonies, pink phlox, bee balm, larkspur planted in the bed my Astilbe is in. Plus there are wild violets, 1 Dame's...
I always thought they grew from bulbs, but yesterday at church, I was given a packet of seeds for Easter lilies. Has anyone grown them from...
Most of my plants are doing well. I still have not seen my horseradish from last summer. It is the first time I have grown horseradish. There are...
