"I wanted orchids all my life, but they didn't do well in Lake Tahoe, where I lived and worked in a nursery," said Saundra Parker. "Now I'm into container planting."
Potted ferns and palms, a...
In my next life I want to be born as a residential building component.
Each of these items revels in being a kaleidoscope of characters throughout its life. Either that, or they have the worst...
Honeybees and beetles fertilize the clustered white flowers of the sugar apple (Annona squamosa.) However, unlike most Florida flowers, they are prudish to a fault, keeping their blossoms tightly...
Asmall room like a powder room or an entryway is often overlooked when sprucing up a home. We might take great care to decorate it when we first move into a house, but these spaces often stay...
Torchwood (Amyris elemifera) has such strong resinous properties that it was named after them both in the scientific name and the more familiar common name. Elemifera means resin bearing in Greek....
Lou and Kingsley Zerbel are ahead of their time. Back in the 1970s, they started vacationing in the Florida Keys, well ahead of most Yankees, who didn't yet get that the chain of islands was attached...
It's 'who you know' that's important in botanical nomenclature.
Potted cane begonias (Begonia x coralline) produce profuse flowers that hang like chandelier earrings in large, drooping clusters...
Just start shaking your head now. Because you still haven't heard it all. Even if it is legal, it still reeks like a full refrigerator 30 days after electricity was shut off.
Here's the deal. The...
Bindy and Mike Blatt are on their third kitchen -- an almost natural spinoff from 29 years in the same house. The most recent kitchen makeover at 3003 Airport Road was finished last year and it "was...
After two intense years -- 2010 to April 2012 -- Jeff and Julie Cornfeld's remake of the prominent house at 426 Elizabeth St. is complete, and its structural strengthening and redesign by Bert Bender...
