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White Habanero Chilli Plant with Flowers

My Chilli Plants are doing very well. I am growing different varieties, but this one is the first to flower...

Posted to Member Gardening Photos (Gallery) by sumimasen on 05-14-2008
White Habanero Chilli Flower

My Chilli plants are flowering very nicely now and it's time to pollinate them. I am so looking forward to the fruits...I'll keep you posted.

Posted to Member Gardening Photos (Gallery) by sumimasen on 05-14-2008
February in Bloom

There are times when it seems that all the trouble that I take cultivating indoor plants is not worth it. Then there are times like yesterday. I walked into my dining room--which doubles as a conservatory in the winter months--and there were not only blooms, but good smells. I was inspired. My newest...

Posted to Growing Wise (Weblog) by Elisabeth on 01-31-2008
Tropicals

I love tropical plants--the brilliant flowers, colors and luxuriant plant forms. In my dreams I have a large green house filled with bountiful citrus trees, vibrant bougainvillea, fragrant clerodendrum and gorgeous brugmansia. Some plant or other is in bloom at all times, and many bloom during the darkest...

Posted to Growing Wise (Weblog) by Elisabeth on 01-10-2008
In Praise of Kalanchoe

You may not know its name, but kalanchoe is everywhere right now. Last week I went to the grocery store, the Home Depot and the local garden center and I saw kalanchoe plants in each place. Now that the holidays are over and the decorations are stowed away, most of us are searching desperately for something...

Posted to Growing Wise (Weblog) by Elisabeth on 01-05-2008
Indoor Garden

In the winter my dining room doubles as a conservatory, with the built-in bench that runs along the bowed wall on the south end serving as home to most of my houseplant collection. I am fond of them, but they have always played second fiddle in my affections to the plants that live outside. Lately I...

Posted to Growing Wise (Weblog) by Elisabeth on 12-15-2007
Scratchings

I love my plants and I love my cats. Both cats are great gardeners, supervising the planting, pruning and tending during the growing season and the watering and repotting activities during the winter. Unlike some other pets of my acquaintance, they do not eat plants, which is a great help--to me and...

Posted to Growing Wise (Weblog) by Elisabeth on 12-02-2007
In From the Cold

For the past eight weeks the first floor of our old house has been torn apart as contractors rebuilt the floors. My houseplants spend the late spring, summer and early fall outside, and normally I would have brought them back in sometimes in September. However, most of them spend the winters in the large...

Posted to Growing Wise (Weblog) by Elisabeth on 11-26-2007
House Plants

Now that the garden is somewhat quieter, my thoughts have turned to the state of my house plants. I have quite an array--from a large lemon tree that I have had for more than two decades to a tiny little auricula-type primrose that I bought last spring. I have a Christmas cactus and a large jade tree...

Posted to Growing Wise (Weblog) by Elisabeth on 11-08-2007

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