The Phytophactor

  OK but first a shout out to Earth Day.  TTP remembers the first Earth Day, but mostly because of all the other struff that was going on, m...

 Sometime every spring right around the first of April, our garden's "lawn" turns blue.  This is caused by several thousand Sc...

 It's the first week of March and a few things do flower this early, but not very many native plants.  One of the cutest is the snow Tri...

 It's the third week of February, the high temperature will be in the 40s and the weather is presently a thunder storm.  Very much unlik...

 Wow! 2023!  Who would have thunk it?  TTP's family is not known for their longevity, so it is quite a surprise to find myself still aro...

 Sorry  for TTP's absence; stuff happens and my attention has been elsewhere.   Now that the considerable leaf fall is done a couple of ...

 October is not a great month for flowering, but a few plants flower in the fall.  This little perennial is generally hard to raise, at leas...

 Orchids are funny, and a number of even botanists are obsessed by them.  It is one of the largest families of flowering plants.  Among the ...

 TPP has been occupied, so sorry.  Having technical problems with images.  Here's part of the back log that doesn't need illustratio...

  The Phactors have two pet cats who own this house.  The older one, a rescue cat, just turned 17 and it was like the meter had run out.  Sh...