Our typical weekend does not usually begin with elbowing our way through thousands of people, in search of both ammunition and a little house-protector in the form of a 20 gauge shotgun, but today, unfortunately, it did. –Let me just take a moment right here to emphasize that gardening and cooking are not the sum […]
Posts Tagged ‘pitcher plants’
Chatty Cathys
I love my pitcher plants. Not only are they very good at denuding the local insect population, but they’re just amusing to look at. See? They look like a group of little old ladies sitting around having a good gossip. Myrtle (left) has just told a particularly racy joke to Gladys (right). Hester, […]
Eat You Up, Yum
I’ve been in love with pitcher plants since we came across a log-potted growth of them at Bok Tower Gardens a few years ago. I bought two earlier this summer to place on the back patio, partly to see if they’d make a dent in the insect population, but mainly because they’re just gorgeous. […]