One: the article I mentioned writing last year for the Old Farmer's Almanac Garden Guide is out; print copies have been available on their website for a few months. I've also heard of print copies being available in actual stores, though I have yet to witness this in the wild. Two: you've probably figured this out already, but I think I'm done writing the blog. Or at least I'm going to stop ..read more

Ready to knock down another eight seedling names in hopes of eventually maybe being able to start on the 2018-19 season? Of course you are. 374A Hi Hungry I'm Dad Seed parent: NOID yellow (batch #1) Explanation: Another non-yellow seedling of the NOID yellow, another comedy-adjacent name.1 Also considered: Idée Fixe, Lawful Neutral, Undefined Expectations 252A Don't Call Me Surly Seed ..read more

Well, there are a couple sort of interesting seedlings here, I guess. Nothing to get too excited about. Anthurium no. 1741 "Charlie Hides" Charlie's first bloom appears to have sort of forgotten how to build a spadix in the middle of the process: I think what's actually going on there is some kind of bacterial or fungal thing -- I feel like I read something about spadix-eating pathogens at ..read more

I may not be back back, but we're getting closer to resuming routine blogging, and closer to the big reveal of what the super secret project was.1 It may take me a while to ramp back up to normal posting, but for the moment there's a Schlumbergera seedling to name, so let's start with that and see how it goes. For reasons I no longer quite remember, I was pretty impressed with seedling 414 when ..read more

Still dealing with the secret project. It's not going well. I'm beginning to suspect that I'm not actually going to get all the seedlings from this year named before next year's seedlings begin to bloom. Here's 136A: It's okay! Not amazing. Really don't need any more white seedlings.1 The name finalists are: Khutulun, Magician's Dove, Pegasus, Serenity Prayer. Khutulun is really interesting ..read more