If you are seeking a new, vibrant pop of summer color for your garden, how about trying a Canna plant? The Canna, also known as Canna Lily* (Canna × generalis), is resilient and easy to grow in your garden. These beauties provide a dazzling show of large, ruffled flowers that are like Iris plants. The…
What Are Rodents?The scientific name Rodentia comes from the Latin word rodere, which means "to gnaw." Rodents include:RatsMiceVolesGophersSquirrelsWoodchucksChipmunksPorcupinesNutriaBeaversRodents are important but need to be controlled when they infest homes and buildings; they damage crops, transmit…
When perusing the indoor plants at nurseries and home centers, you can’t help but notice the increase in popularity of tillandsias, a genus of hundreds of species (650+) in the Bromeliad family, better known as air plants.Air plants require no soil or medium of any kind - they just sit wherever you place…
Once again, hunting season in my yard is open - for female black widow spiders and their webs. It happens every year, beginning in late spring and through the summer months, into the warm fall season.We live at the end of a court in a typical residential neighborhood; however, there is no house on the…
It was not my intention to be surrounded by spider plants in my home. I don’t dislike spider plants, but they aren’t my first choice for a houseplant, perhaps because I grew up in an era where spider plants were everywhere, from festooning macrame plant hangers to growing outside under a local Monterey…
