Arroz Con Beans

15 April 05 This is an inventory of all my plants. The Spanish or local name is in parentheses. Tomorrow I should be back in business with the camera. Front 4 o’clocks asparagus fern Boston fern bougainvillea cafe con leche Graptophyllum pictum - coleus (verguenza) cordeline roja crotons dracaena fragrans ficus hibiscus impatiens (miramelinda) jade mandevilla pleomele pothos spider plant confederate jasmine Patio and backyard Aloe vera (savila) Banana [...]

I have added a lot of plants. In the front, I pulled up some ugly things and cleared out an area to landscape. I planted a row of Dracaena Fragrans against the house and front stoop. In front of them, I have some Ferns and some Cordeline Roja and Liriope. Toward the front, near the walk, [...]

In the garden, we are all children. How can I complain about my children picking flowers, playing in water and getting muddy when I do the same? Isn’t that one reason we love to garden? We get to be kids again. My mother sent me a packet of touch-me-not seeds. I have already planted some in [...]

Flowers from my garden May 17 2001.I adore the gardenias. The other plants are feverfew and lemon balm.

One of today’s additions to the garden lust list is cundeamor, momordica chantaria or balsamina, depending on who you ask. I lost the seeds I collected from the plants I snagged from off the fence on the road by a beach in Puerto Rico.(How many prepositions did I fit into that sentence?) The other is culantro, [...]