BOTANICAL NAMES JAMBOREE FOR MAKE BELIEVE ENVIRONMENTALISTS

DURING May, it probably rained for 25 days.  I often wonder how do people in monsoon regions handle the problems with floods, sewage and dri...

BEATO SOIL ISSUES PARQUE DONHA INES FLMM SAGA

WHILE reading the above mentioned blogger, BEATO always with inquisitive comments, or inquiries or dissent your humble servant was left with...

BOURET HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY GARDENING REPORT

WELL, it is the first time I will harvest some Carica papaya   from the orchard.  There are 17 hanging in there, but 3 decided to ripen in l...

PARQUE DONHA INES LUIS MUNHOZ MARIN FOUNDATION ALL THE THINGS FORGOTTEN

THERE IS this park, in Trujillo Alto, PDI,  the ball park of the cost? Over six million dollars.  007 Recursos Naturales, Acevedo Vila, form...

ON VINES AND MEN

IT IS amazing.  The amount of vines in the tropics.  However, out of every twenty garden installations, maybe two will be found.  In commerc...

CELEBRATE THE BULLET

24 MONTHS  ago, May 2008, we moved to this house circa 18 January 1940. This month is also remarkable thanks to Diva our mixed Dobber/Boxer,...

ALL THINGS CONSIDERED

SO MANY YEARS , have gone by  that it will cause no harm to mention it for a first time in the 'evening post'. I have the sensation...

PUERCORICO'S ENVIRONMENTALISTS DO YOU KNOW YOUR ASS FROM YOUR ELBOWS

IN MEMORIAN Yuca Manihot On Thursday of 2010,  this creature propagated from cut stems, provided by Crispin, our former good friend and owne...

BLOOMING IN THE BACKYARD

PROBABLY, as a consequence of the frequent rain for the last ten days everyone is happily blooming all over the garden. The indigo blue Comm...

PALOS BORINCANOS OR THE ISLE PLANTING INFATUATION OUT OF THE BLUE

THE FOOLISHNESS, of those believing that good intentions suffice, and the irrational infatuation of planting trees just for the sake of plan...

1876 SAN ANTONIO STREET CONVERSATION WITH TWO DIMWITS

MY INTENTION was to write about 'Palos de Borinquen' or their real name "Arboles de Puerto Rico", but that will have to wa...

GARDENING RUMINATIONS FOR THE FAITHFUL

THIS PLANT collector never pass a chance to add a valuable piece, worthy of merit, according to his criteria.  I had such opportunity yester...

UNIVERSIDAD SAGRADO CORAZON SANTURCE NOISY POLLUTING NEIGHBOR FROM HELL

SAGRADO CORAZON UPDATE 11 JUNE 2010 The feeble minded, down syndrome like administration of Universidad Sagrado Corazon, on top of the alre...

PAYING DEBTS OR BALANCING THE BUDGET WITH ERYTHROXYLUM COCA

PERHAPS YOU belong to that moral, judicial, social, political or backward religious  segment of the population in many countries of the worl...

SO LONG PALMAS DEL MAR GOLF COURSE AND ELSE

WHILE WATCHING the 1972, US OPEN, with Lee Trevino, Chi Chi, Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino and Arnold Palmer I was thinking about the huge envi...