Category: Indoor Gardening

Phalaenopsis Birthday Orchid

This beautiful orchid was a birthday gift given to me by my employers. For the last year I have been taking care of their many orchids—as well as the other houseplants in their historic home—so I suppose I deserve the opportunity to try NOT to kill another orchid in my own home. (Yes, in the…

September 26, 2009
Favorite Houseplant

I love this Christmas Cactus! It was given to my mother during the winter of 2002-2003 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time. I have divided it once, and in the future, I plan to make more of them for my family members and others. I call the plant “Mom’s Cancer…

December 17, 2007

Phalaenopsis Birthday Orchid