NOT GOING AROUND THE BUSHES

I HAD A DREAM! Somejuat strange. I was listening to some medium age lady tell the story about what a rip off was the cost of some silk flowe...

Roberto Delgado and His Orchestra - Amapola

THREE AMAPOLAS

What do you know...This clip was chosen among the following: Jimmy Dorsey, I prefer the music of his brother, Lecuona Cuban Boys, Ennio Mor...

A MUSICAL BOTANICAL POST

FROM THE START,  I have suggested the use of botanicals to avoid confusion and time waste when researching. I will present two more examples...

Nat King Cole - Cuba and Capullito de Aleli

3 GARDENIIAS

THE TRUTH is THAT I have 3 Gardenias for all, one in the north garden at home and the two mentioned in this clip from Buena Vista Social C...

DIVA'S 77 BIRTHDAY

What can I say, but to wish my best and constant gardening friend for such a long time than a Japi Belday? I remember our early morning trip...

POTPOURRI POST

IT IS A REAL trip to read so many inane blogs over here and/or over there. They all deal with the same issues, the majority from the news m...

AMIDST SPECIAL NEEDS POPULATION WITH LOVE

YOU HAVE no idea how difficult is to realize one lives among mongrels without imagination, any sense of logic, without any hint of intellige...

UPDATES ON SIDEWALKS, ARCHEOLOGY TERRACOTA AND KNOT GARDENS

I KNOW some fans and foes have wondered about your humbleness. Well, I have been totally absorbed by a couple of projects that have not only...

ROBERTO SANCHEZ VILELLA THE LAST SIGNIFICANT PUERTORICAN

ODD TITLE, after all, my fans and foes may be thinking. Well, yesterday was Borders day. Puerto Rico has no use for libraries as you may kno...

ME QUALITY OF LIFE DOWN THE DRAIN

A COUPLE  of days ago, me life took a sudden an abrupt downhill turn after the Krups expresso coffee machine passed away with the aid of ALT...

THE BOURET HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY PRESENTS THE NORTH GARDEN INVENTORY

The project has been spinning on me mind for some time. What a better present for the day celebrated tomorrow than to present every other dk...

MOCK INTERVIEW THE NORTH GARDEN INVENTORIY IN A CHANGED PERSONA

INTRODUCTION Well, here is is I. Better yet, here we are in the third. A most despicable old fashion manner to say/write things. Even if pop...

IT WAS NINE YEARS AGO...

WELL, to be more precise if I include the days when I lived in Savarona, before the invasion, during college, it should be: It started 3 dec...

THE GARDEN IS NOT A BLOG JUST A MINIMAL PART OF IT

IN 2002 , once I finished the requirements for the Commercial Horticulture Landscape Management from the New York Botanical Garden certifica...

LAST SQUARE STANDING OR FAREWELL POLLOCK HELLO ANTIGONUM

ONE 'DEAR' fellow blogger from Cidra City, a wonderful and sophisticated metropolis in the neck of the concrete/asphalt isle, one ha...

GARDEN UPDATES

I have been mostly designing, measuring, marking, painting for the last couple of weeks. The result went beyond expectation in the north gar...

A WEDDING POST

WATCHING those Rolls, Jaguars, Bentleys, Aston Martin, not so much the Range Rovers,  was divine.  It looked like one of those fast and fur...