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Drip Tips
- Posted July 28, 2021
- by rickvuyst
Everybody talks about the weather. People talk about weather because it’s safe if you need filler for a lagging conversation. This is especially true when it gets hot and humid. Humidity is the relative amount…Continue Reading
Get the New Year off on the right “root”
- Posted December 29, 2020December 29, 2020
- by rickvuyst
So it’s time to pack away the Christmas decorations. Auld Lang Syne and Happy New Year. Now that the old tannenbaum is out of the house and the baubles and ornaments are nestled in storage…Continue Reading
Monstrosity
- Posted October 29, 2020October 30, 2020
- by rickvuyst
For Halloween weekend and the full “blue moon” I thought I would post the scariest thing I saw this past week. Here it is: Plants need to breathe too! Covers if necessary for a landscape…Continue Reading
I Just Wet My Houseplants
- Posted September 15, 2020September 24, 2020
- by rickvuyst
In my book ‘I Just Wet My Plants’ I note that water is the number one killer of houseplants. Usually too much. We kill them with kindness. I took the following pictures to illustrate a…Continue Reading
Quintessential
- Posted April 8, 2020April 9, 2020
- by rickvuyst
The word essential in the dictionary includes as part of the definition the phrase “being such by its very nature or in the highest sense; natural; spontaneous” such as essential happiness. It causes me to think…Continue Reading