Archive | September, 2010

Growing Carnivorous and Insectivorous Plants

By on September 3, 2010 in Flowers and Plants

Carnivorous plants are not as hard to grow as you might imagine. There are several ways you can grow interesting displays of these consuming plants. If you want to grow Pitcher plants similar to those above read Easy Carnivorous Pitcher Plants. Tips for Growing and Displaying The top Gardeners tip for these plants is to [...]

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Fine and Fantastic Fruiting Fungus

By on September 2, 2010 in Flowers and Plants, Green Gardening

The mushroom we see is the fruiting part of a fungus that distributes the spores of the fungus for its own reproduction. Fungus Facts Most fungi are small microorganisms that live in soil, on dead matter, or as a symbiont of plants or animals. Fungi perform an essential role in the decomposition of organic matter [...]

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Garden Fiction on Gardeners and Gardens

By on September 1, 2010 in Books

‘The Garden of Reading: An Anthology of Twentieth-century Short Fiction About Gardens and Gardeners’ edited by Michele Slung. I was going to write about brochures, bulb and seed catalogues, but then I came across this book. At least the anthology collects works that set out to be  fiction, whilst gardening brochures presumably did not. On [...]

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