How to Grow a Banana Tree

This is only the second summer that i've had my banana tree after receiving it from Amazon in February of 2011. I've been surprised...

How to Grow a Lotus Plant Indoors from a Seed

Taking everything i learned from last year: American Lotus Sprouting Lotus Seeds Lotus in the Sun Final Lotus of the Year I'm trying ...

Bamboo in Heavy Snow

At least once or twice every winter here in Michigan we get a day of really heavy snow. Even though this has been one of the warmest winter...

Final Lotus of the Year

Well as of right now the lotus plants are i n the basement for the winter. I didn't want the roots to freeze so i brought them inside...

Banana Tree Update

Before it gets too cold i thought that i should move the banana tree to a bigger pot. The roots were completely growing out of the old one....

Penny Auctions

A while back i was all fired up about trying to figure out online penny auctions. Since then i sort of gave up, but i wrote down what my ...

Bamboo - 2011

This was a tough winter on the bamboo, lots of leaves turned yellow, overall though they survived. I'm still not sure exactly what typ...