Transport yourself, if you will, to the grassland meadows of the Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa.  Before you the landscape unfurls into verdant carpets of green with stony mountain tops in the background.  The sweeping feeling you are experiencing is…

Australia is one of my favorite plant places in the world.  The plants there are so crazy and cool!  Here’s one that can’t help but be a show off, Chorizema ‘Bush Flame’ commonly referred to as the Flame Pea.  Can…

There are some desert plants out there that leave little to be desired.  Usually their appearance is rather scraggly or scrubby.  For the most part, this is due to survival adaptations.  But then there are some desert plants which adapt…

Here’s a little plucky succulent Euphorbia I came across the other day. Euphorbia greenwayi blue. It looks like something out of a Jules Verne novel but in miniature.  Very not-of-this-earth cool!  It’s perfectly at home in a small vessel on…