Whenever I get a call from my mom that starts with "Jennifer, I need for you to come over and do" whatever is on her mind in her yard at that moment, I get a little worried. This time, she wanted me to come over to "take care of the little Japanese maple sprouts.
Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist, is known as the Father of Modern Taxonomy, which is the science of identifying, naming and classifying organisms. He is known for formalizing binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms.
I'm always on the lookout for unusual plants, vegetables, and fruits to grow, so imagine my surprise when I found the book of my dreams, Grow Something Different To Eat (weird and wonderful heirloom fruits and vegetables) by Matthew Biggs.
Lupine or lupin from the Latin word lupus meaning wolf, although I can't see anything wolf-fish about this stunning beauty. Previously, I wrote about nitrogen-fixing plants. Plants that take nitrogen from the air and fix it to be available for plants as fertilizer.
I just returned from a several week trip to Borneo, which is located in the South China Sea, in Southeast Asia near the Phillipines. So you know it is far away. It is very hot and wet and humid, so as you can imagine if you stand in one place for a while you are bound to throw down roots.
