Pebble Plants

Lithops

• these little ground nubs grow all across Nambia, South Africa, Botswana, and perhaps also Angola

Darwin’s Orchids

This fascinating flower is perhaps the best example of an equally fascinating phenomenon called coevolution.

Planting that Bradford Pear Tree Is a Terrible Idea and Here’s why…

Cranberry Bog

Cranberries are a very strange fruit. They like to grow in long trailing vines in bog beds made up of sand, acidic peat moss, gravel…

The Great Sargasso Sea

The Sargasso Sea is located in a gyre, or a system of rotating currents, in the middle of the north Atlantic Ocean. The…

Cycads

Hey, why is that palm tree sitting on the ground? And why do those pineapples look like pinecones? Let’s take a look back in time, shall we?

From Medicinal Tea to Crystal Meth

This kind of just looks like a pine bough or a mass of matted grasses, but it is neither. This…

DRAGON BLOOD TREE

• it’s in all caps simply because it’s a cool name
• the scientific name for this plant is Dracaena…

Grow a Fern, Become a Shaman

a psychedelic plant friend

Me? Invasive?

Box elder trees are native to North America, but are considered invasive in some parts of the continent. They’re so good at invading…