This has been a wonderful week for my orchids. Although very hot and dry until today’s afternoon shower, I managed to keep all the orchids well fed and watered. At first I was watering all of the orchids every ten […]
Did you know there is a very special orchid that smells just like chococolate? Let me tell you more about it and show you two of mine. Please LIKE, COMMENT & SUBSCRIBE to my Youtube channel: Youtube.com/therainqueen for more videos […]
I can’t explain exactly how it came to be, but a couple of weeks ago I fell head-first into the orchid hobby. I have always associated orchids with elegant ladies, massive greenhouses and similarly massive amounts of effort and time […]
We are currently enjoying a week of humidity, precipitation (a bit of hail and lots of rain) and cool temperatures after last week’s heatwave. On this time last week the max temp hit 42.5C in some parts of Pretoria. I […]
I finally managed to get hold of not one but two types of edible amaranthus, aka morogo and have started to propagate some cuttings in water. I wildcrafted these from plants *growing outside of my office. The plants are common […]
I haven’t been doing much gardening or elaborate cooking lately due to the heatwave, work and academics. Since the previous post I’ve been so lucky to find more unusual / new to me plants. Some were even gifted to me. […]