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Cool Crocus Sex Fact!

March 21, 2012

The crocus egg is hanging out safe underground. To get to her the sperm has to travel first in a grain of pollen to the pistil of the flower (the dark orange part in the photo), then it has to travel down a tube through the stem of the flower…

Garden Friend or Foe?

March 16, 2012

Last week I found this cool half-inch long beetle on the move here across my doorstep. It’s one of the good guys, an immature predatory beetle, which specializes on hunting one of the most troublesome garden pests, snails! The business end of this beetle is quite elongated and narrow, very…