I received an email from a Gabriela in Mexico. She asked,

Con que nombre se le conoce a la ASPIDISTRA en America Latina (Mexico)?

How exciting to know that someone in Mexico is reading my website! Though I do not speak any Spanish I hope that the translation of your question is “What is the name [...]

One of my faithful readers, Stephanie, and her husband are getting excited about Christmas.  Here are three questions she had about Christmas flowers and plants.
1. Are there any pretty Christmas/winter plants for the outside?
2. Besides the Christmas tree and the poinsettia, are there any other nice indoor Christmas plants?
3. Do you happen to know which types of Christmas [...]

The Garden Lady has received a request to speak about a different plant each week. Life is filled with such wonderful things happening, I don’t know if I can find the time to write about a different plant every week; but I will certainly try.
 
The first plant I want to speak about is the Poinsettia.
 

The Garden Lady has received some more questions from different people.  Below are the questions and my replies.  

Here is another question from Stephanie.

Do you have any suggestions for rarely used plant names that would be good names for a baby, names besides Violet, Lilly, Rose, etc.?
Here are my thoughts on this question.
Related Link: baby clothes are just as precious as baby names sometimes, since appearance is the first thing people [...]

A person by the name of Ryan emailed me today and asked the following question: “I want to grow plants in my dorm room at college and was wondering whether you recommend any type of plant and whether I need to take any special precautions.”
Below are some of my thoughts on the topic -

Today when I went out to rake my patio, I was shocked and very pleased to see that for the first time a flower that I had planted a few years ago was in bloom. I was shocked  because it is almost ½ way through October and we have had what seemed like two small [...]

My nom de plume is Lilac.  So what’s in a name?  What’s in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet” from Romeo and Juliette.  But I wondered how many of my readers’s names come from flowers, shrubs or trees? Or, how many of my readers want to [...]