An Enrichment Post: Forcing Paperwhite Bulbs
Today, I find myself in a quandary about what to write. I have a couple of ideas but both stem from irritations, one regarding education and one regarding sportsmanship. I…
Category: Life Science – Garden Club Lessons
Dutch Goes the Photo Challenge: New
Since the Weekly Word Press Photo Challenge has been discontinued, I have been surfing around the blogosphere for other photo challenges in which I can regularly participate. Dutch Goes the…
An Enrichment Post: Those Amazingly Awe- Inspiring Carnivorous Plants!
One of the best gifts I received this holiday season was a PBS documentary video called, “Plants Behaving Badly”, in which two types of amazing plants – orchids and carnivorous plants…
The Amaryllis Project 2017
Last year, a parent donated 220 Amaryllis Kits to the after school garden club I ran at our local elementary school. It was not the first time she had made…
Flower of the Day – Amaryllis: Cee’s Photo Challenge
The following are my postings for Cee’s Photo Challenge: Amaryllis for December 18th, 2017, The amaryllis is a large, colorful flowering bulb that is popular at holiday time. For the…
Monarch Count
During the last week, I have resumed care of my monarchs in very stages of their life cycle. Right now, I have the following: 8 Chyrsalises 4 Larvae in J…
Tiny Charges
Earlier this week, toward the end of the vacation my husband and I took to the island country of Bermuda, I remembered to ask my sister-in-law who was staying with…
Inspection Time
Late last week I spent some time looking at my milkweed patches for signs of monarch caterpillars. It is one of those activities that no matter how many times I…
