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1. They eat what? Carnivorous plants don’t eat meat, really; they eat insects and spiders and other arthropods. One of the larger carnivorous plants, Nepenthes rajah,
1. You have to eat a peck of dirt before you die. Fortunately, that old saying does not apply to plants, which in fact, do
1. Plural. You can say “crocuses”, “croci” or “crocus” when you have more than one. Personally, I think “crocuses” is the clearest. 2. Fall-blooming crocuses.
Photo: Hansicanada, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 1. What’s blue, grows on a bush and melts in your mouth? Honeyberry or haskap (Lonicera caerulea) is an
1. Sour grapes. The expression ‘sour grapes’ originated from Aesop’s fable about the fox and the grapes; a hungry fox tries vainly to reach some
1. Hellebores. One of the early spring flowers, Hellebores, are poisonous, as are many plants in the garden. The sap and seeds, interestingly, will turn
1. Sunflowers for Ukraine. Sunflowers grow well in Ukraine, owing to its hot dry summers. The flower was widely planted by Peter the Great in
1. Dew of the sea The name rosemary has nothing to do with roses or anyone named Mary. It is from the Latin: ros, meaning
Sequoia National Park, California 1. What kind of big? You can measure the biggest trees as the tallest, the thickest at breast-height, the largest amount
1. The story of Molly, Tom and their confused friend, Gib. We all know that male cats are called Toms, but that females are called
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