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 [...]

Ah, there is a 3 month gap in posting. My husband dipped and my first husband’s entire town got washed away in Hurricane Katrina,all in the space of a week. I believe I was catatonic for 2 months. But like roaches, I cant be contained or suppressed and made my way back to the internets. By [...]

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, [...]

June 15, 2005 Cuban Oregano is a plant known worldwide by many different names. Indian Borage Jamaican thyme, Suganda, and Oregano Brujo are some of the names for the plant known officially as as Plectranthus amboinicus, Plectranthus aromaticus AND Coleus amboinicus. Cuban oregano is related to other [...]

June 2005 This plant was hard for me to ID. Initially I thought it was Cuban Oregano, known in Puerto Rico as Oregano Brujo. But it didn’t make sense [...]

Cilantro, known outside of the US as “coriander”, has become very popular in the US. In the US the leaves are known as cilantro and the seeds as [...]