The Phytophactor

Monday started early when a cat woke TPP to tell him that a thunderstorm was approaching, a fact he would find out himself in another 10 to ...

TPP thinks he's on to something. First, let's assume you have a ceramic garden gnome because you cannot find anything more interesti...

Next week is the 4th of July?  What?  Where did June go?  Dang, guess we've been busy because June just evaporated. Several signs sugges...

Usually we await the opening of flower buds to see how the flower looks, but sometimes, the flower bud itself is pretty attractive. This flo...

If you've never seen, or smelled, an Amorphophallus in flower , it's something to see (see if you can figure out the name).  Like a...

The Phactors pride themselves on having a wild-life friendly yard; it provides lots of cover, water, and food.  This is why so many critters...

What is biodynamic wine?   A reasonable question, but TPP had never heard of such a thing.   Biodynamic is one of those words that doe...

TPP could not believe it, but there it was, Osmundastrum cinnamomeum , cinnamon fern with a new name!  Dang, it's happened again!  TPP a...

This has been a great year for certain weeds, weeds that are generally no so much of a problem. Thousands of sugar maple and red bud seedlin...

A visit back to upstate New York triggered some nostalgia, and quite by chance TPP stumbled upon one old memory, our high school English tea...