Today’s post headline sounds like the name of a Prince album or a Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew mystery.   In reality, it’s about a funktastically fab western Australian shrub called Eremophila hygrophana ‘Blue Bells’.  Eremophilas are also commonly referred to as…

The venation in this foliage is so beautiful I can’t stand it!  We’re talking high fashion flora here.  It always amazes me when nature punches up the patterns to create something so spellbinding and so bold.  Here we have a…

As The Plant Provocateur I am a sucker for the rare and unusual.  The kooky and the crazy.  The dreamy and the draizy.  Today’s model comes to us from the Zululand of South Africa.  Once in a great while I’ll…

From across the ocean, from across the floral universe, comes this interplanetary, extraordinary craft.  Have you ever seen such a fantastic flower before?  Maybe.  Well, I must admit, I am seriously crazy about our featured model today.  We’re talking bananas,…