The Phytophactor

The calendar says February is the shortest month, but where did May go?  It's a terribly busy month for gardeners, transitioning from sp...

If the two previous posts were not teasers enough, having a new Magnolia flower is always a wonderful thing, especially when the magnolia...

Well this Friday Fabulous Flower is sure taking long enough, but that is just the way with nature. The big flower bud shown yesterday is o...

TPP is going to have a wowser Friday Fabulous Flower, and never before has this generated more anticipation for this author, do here's...

Can you trust someone who has never gardened or even grown a plant?   It takes a certain amount of mental and emotional maturity to apprec...

A front rolled in this AM early announced by thunderstorms and an alarmed cat alarm (scared of thunder). So after nearly a week of quite w...

Mrs. Phactor likes Iris, and while she exercises considerable patience in their cuture, she appreciates a good Iris as much as the next p...

While reading the news, TPP noted that it is rumored that the President will appoint a non-scientist, someone wholly without scientific cred...

It's human nature, so we all do it.  And a steady diet of unpleasantness begins to depress TPP.  In terms of nature, 2017 has been great...

Is there anything better than having a cool magnolia flower in your garden?  Magnolia sieboldii , Oyama magnolia, is pretty near its c...