Today I’m planting a tuber of the Dragon Lily (Dracunculus vulgaris). This arum grows around three feet tall and produces a large blood-red inflorescence that gets about eighteen inches long. When it blooms, it smells like rotting flesh, attracting flies to assist in pollinating it. Depending on how potent the scent becomes, it may find…
Year: 2025
Day 2 – April 2, 2025
Like yesterday, today I placed five seeds each of four different plants into plastic baggies on damp paper towel. They are Balsam, Cypress Vine, Squirting Cucumber and Yukon Chief Dwarf Sweet Corn. Balsam is an old-time favorite of mine. It’s in the Impatiens family and grows as bushy plants that have a very lengthy bloom…
Day 1 – April 1, 2025
Here I am at Day One once again! I honestly was starting to think I’d never get this opportunity again. You see, fourteen years ago I owned this domain, my namesake, and I wrote a fun indoor gardening blog until a series of events led me in another direction. I allowed the domain to expire,…