You'll have to love plants, a lot, to understand my excitement at finding the plants I've been searching for, for a very long time. ...

Bhut Jolokia, The World's Hottest Pepper I've received several inquiries about seed from a couple of plants I grew this past ye...

One of the first signs of spring in the Ozarks is the Spring Peeper. Sometimes we hear them on very warm evenings in January, but the first ...

Plants are tough. How could something withstand the ice of last week, the constant low teens temperatures, then with only a couple of d...

Being without power for a week accomplishes making us all more grateful when the power finally came back on (Tuesday, noon). Thanks to Bill ...

This may go down in the history books as the "Big Ice Storm of 2009." Tuesday it hit, ice all night, then sleet, then some mo...

After days in Little Rock, where it was mild and the fall iris were blooming, the trip to Urbana was for-sure winter. I've been to Chuck...