Caring for Your Orchid

Caring for Your Orchid

Caring for delicately scented Japanese orchids is a bit different than for most other garden flowers. They are epiphytes, which mean that rather than growing in soil, their roots are exposed to the air. In the wild orchids grow on other plants, using them for mechanical support. Orchids are not parasitic. They get their nutrients [...]

February 13th, 2010 by Paul Masterson 

Buttercups and Bonsai…

Buttercups and Bonsai…

I had an early morning walk this morning (9am is early to me) and noticed that this year must be the year of the Buttercup. Every year I watch the cycle of the weed invasion on the percolation area. Last year it was the Thistle and the nitrogen fixing Gorse the year before that.

May 23rd, 2009 by Paul Masterson 
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