Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Acacia dealbata


Acalypha hispida - Foxtail


Acalypha wilkesiana - Ceylon Firedragon


Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Bougainvillea


Indoor Begonia. Care and advice


Aglaonema


Monday, September 28, 2009

Dracaena sanderiana - Lucky Bamboo


Dracaena godseffiana - Gold-dust Dracaena


Dracaena


Sunday, September 27, 2009

Glass house in Christiania, Copenhagen


yume no shima tropical greenhouse


Curitiba botanical garden


Cactuses And Other Succulent House Plants


Saturday, September 26, 2009

Making Indian Vegetable Curry video

One of my personal favourite meals - and this does work.

Nymphaea in the botanical Garden of Braunschweig


Houseplants


Index of House Plants

A Bathroom corner


Friday, September 25, 2009

Growing Citrus in Containers


Epiphyllums


Fatsia japonica


Thursday, September 24, 2009

Geraniums


Geranium Cuttings

Repotting House Plants


Leafshine


Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Nephrolepis -- Sword Fern


Nidularium


Notocactus


Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Fireplace


Bedroom


Basket


Monday, September 21, 2009

Sooty mould


Veltheimia


Vriesea hybrids


Sunday, September 20, 2009

The world's oldest potted plant (article)


Oxalis


Opuntia


Pachystachys lutea - Golden Shrimp Plant


Saturday, September 19, 2009

Kew Gardens Palm House and Koi

Streptocarpus saxorum

http://www.dibleys.com/strep.htm

Syngonium 'White Butterfly'


I've always really liked this form, though I find it does best for me in a bright but indirect light and needs to be kept just damp.

Nerium oleander


Friday, September 18, 2009

Winterizing houseplants



Is 'Winterizing' actually a word ? Still good video.

Neoregelia carolinae - Blushing Bromeliad


Pot of Narcissus


Borneo jungle


Fig tree - Philippines


Mt. Des Voeux - Fiji


Thursday, September 17, 2009

Vancouver - rain forest


Ficus lyrata - Fiddle leaf fig


Ivy pot


Orchid


Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Amazon #3


Amazon #2


Amazon #1


Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Wallace's Flying Frog


Orchid Bee


Mayan Jungle


Monday, September 14, 2009

Amazon


Amorphophallus titanium

wild in Indonesia
http://www.desertsong.com/sgvcss/Amorphophallus.html

Peruvian Jungle


Sunday, September 13, 2009

New Charles Darwin film is 'too controversial' for religious American audiences


A new British film about Charles Darwin has failed to land a distribution deal in the States because his theories on human evolution are too controversial for religious American audiences, according to the film's producer.
Creation follows the British naturalist's 'struggle between faith and reason' as he wrote his 1859 book.

Kew gardens in Victorian times


Lushness


Congo


Saturday, September 12, 2009

Cat Health 101 - House Plants


Early Pineapple


An illustration of one of the first Pineapples brought back to Britain from Jamaica.

Jungle Canopy


Jungle River


Fog Arising by Daniel Sin Gim San, Singapore


CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year 2009 competition winners

Friday, September 11, 2009

Ernest Board - Cacti


oil on canvas

Green Looks Peaceful by Raghav Paul, India


CIWEM Environmental Photographer of the Year 2009 competition winners

Window


Fireplace #2


Fireplace #1


Thursday, September 10, 2009

Sarawak


Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden, Orchid Conservatory


Daniel Stowe Botanic Garden


Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Palm House - Bicton Park


Palm House - Kew Gardens


Lilies in a pot


Musa Sikkimensis in the UK


Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Tropical Butterflies in the UK


Houseplants in a Kitchen


Houseplants on a table


Sezincote



Monday, September 7, 2009

Alocasias


Fatsia japonica

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/gardening/howtogrow/3295666/How-to-grow-Fatsia-japonica.html

Eustoma grandiflorum


Corridor of a Conservatory


Corridor of a Conservatory, engraved by Joseph Constantine Stadler fl.1780-1812 from Designs for the Pavilion at Brighton, pub. 1808
Humphry Repton
1752-1818

Sunday, September 6, 2009

House


Plumbago capensis - Cape Plumbago


Oncidium nubigenum


Coelogyne Orchids


Saturday, September 5, 2009

Colocasia in the wild


Rice


Growing Rice at home

Friday, September 4, 2009

Zoo Zurich - Masoala Forest Hall


Davallia bullata


Ctenanthe oppenheimiana cv. Tricolor


This is the plant I have under this name and it grows well for me in a light position.
But if you google the name on the internet you get all sorts of plants.
(in French)
for instance, this one
which I have as well. Not sure which is right, but they are both lovely plants.
Ctenanthe

Cryptanthus bromelioides 'Tricolor'

http://www.plantcare.com/encyclopedia/dwarf-rose-1121.aspx

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Stressbusting Plants (article)


Indoor plants can reduce fatigue, coughs, sore throats, and other cold related illnesses by more than 30%.

Asparagus Fern


Aloe variegata


Aloe ferox


Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Kigelia africana - Sausage Tree


Lotus


Tropical Waterlilies


Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Pawpaw


Cyperus papyrus in the wild


Tecoma stans - Yellow Trumpetbush


There are 16 species in this tropical climbing genus, distributed from Mexico and tropical America to the Antilles. This species can form a small tree but makes a good conservatory plant.