Plants that began life in a nursery or have been grown in gardens are very aware of the humans around them. After all, it is the humans that tend them, feed them, water them, protect them by putting them in greenhouse, try to keep pests away from them, and otherwise make the plants' lives and reproduction possible. And think of bananas! -- there ( Read more... )

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http://www.hulu.com/watch/621618#i0,p1,d0

Neil de Grasse Tyson at his amazing best.

Somehow, by some miracle, Shub and Eris, my two rosebushes, are thriving. They've been out on the porch all winter, and are potted roses (so their root systems can't expand very far or run deep down to avoid freezing), yet so far they've survived the winter quite handily. Now, these are Kmart roses; none of the rose bushes I've gotten anywhere ( Read more... )

I need to post something to a Seattle LJ blog -- I have plants I need to find homes for -- and have no idea how to do it. Anyone know?

I have three plants for which I need to find good homes: two baby avocado trees, and one rubber-tree plant. I don't want to just throw them away. But the cold will kill the baby avocados if they aren't taken inside for the winter, and the rubber-tree plant can't live outside, either. Please, anybody want these beautiful plants? My cat is on ( Read more... )

Somewhere on my blog is a post about the morning I woke up to a cascade of sunlight onto my rug (it had been heavily overcast, cold, and endlessly rainy) and a very moving prayer chanted by my roses. I can't find it, and a friend wants to see the prayer as I wrote it up. So here goes again ( Read more... )

http://www.pccnaturalmarkets.com/sc/1109/organic_seed.html

While we may not think about seed when eating breakfast or helping our children into their cotton pajamas at night, seed is the foundational step in feeding and clothing ourselves.