Anna Campomanes

Lucky me! A coworker invited me to learn how to pin insects she and her husband had collected on a camping trip. I got a lovely tour of the University of Kentucky greenhouses and saw a lovely collection of tropical plants, including these carnivorous plants! Next thing we crack open a bottle of Zombie Dust (a coveted beer, I hear) and start to sticking! I learned that the seventeen year cicaida was four years early and that spiders are soft bodied and don't really pin that

I've started an experiment! Rather unscientific, but I do have a control group! Olives: symbols of peace, victory, brides and apparently virgins? I don't know. Anyway, I've started an experiment in propagating olive trees. A few large ones came into the greenhouse and I needed to make more! Olives are a challenge because they don't readily propagate from cuttings. From what I've read they have a pretty notorious failure rate. So I'm trying a few different things. The c

I work at Michler's Greenhouses in Lexington, Kentucky. Sometimes, I take photos. #plants #Michlers #Greenhouse #Lichen #sempervivum #hensandchicks #moss #blueberries #flowers #blossom #euphorbia #fern