The Plant Lady

04/29/2026

Bulbophyllum binnendijkii… a student described the scent as that of a bloated body pulled from a river. I didn’t ask any further questions 😂. Thank you for this one and thanks Ryan for taking good care of it.

04/27/2026

Top 10 Unusual “Vegetables”! Bruce gives his top 10, I give mine! Link in stories. Listen on most podcast platforms or link below

https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/flowerpowergardenhour/id/41021230

04/24/2026

This Saturday!!! 9-1. We have a lot of plants for sale. 97% are indoor plants .. ie HOUSEPLANTS!!! Check out conservatory.ucdavis.edu for exact location and directions ( the conservatory doesn’t have an actual address). We are located close to the campus fire department.

04/22/2026

There’s a lot of people whose jobs keep them up at night but is it because you choose to house the most venomous plant in the world?!! Very exciting for the UK poison garden to reach out to us and to see all the public interest but I’m the one who gets to handle it and take the fall if it goes bad 🥴

The most painful plant on Earth: Gympie Gympie.

Dendrocnide moroides delivers its venomous sting through razor-sharp trichomes.

These tiny hairs inject neurotoxic peptides, called gympietides, into the nervous system. Even intravenous morphine may not fully relieve the pain.

It is valuable for pain research and drug development.

The only publicly displayed one in the U.S. is ours!

04/18/2026

Come visit today for picnic day! As well as donating.. if you can ❤️

04/12/2026

Busy plant weekend. Yesterday I gave a 3 hour houseplant class to the 2026 class of Monterey county master gardeners in Salinas. I recorded an episode of with Bruce last night. Today and then giving a private tour .. somehow I’ll fit in a run, piano practice and feeding 44 cats! If I’m not busy busy I get antsy so it’s a good thing 😂

04/08/2026

Our funding now comes mainly through our plant sales and donations so we are hustling these days 😂

04/07/2026

I give my top 10 veggie garden tips. Bruce gives his. Some of ours overlap but most don’t. Listen in! Click link below

Bruce and I each break down our top 10 tips and tricks for growing a successful vegetable garden — no peeking, no comparing notes beforehand. Just two opinionated gardeners with a lot to say about what actually works. Who has a no-marigold policy on their list? Why heirlooms-only may lead to disap...

04/01/2026

It finally flowered!! We’ve had this specimen for years.. Pseudorhipsalis amazonica .

03/26/2026

Life has been throwing some curve balls lately so nice to get away backpacking. It’s my true stress relief, reset and joy. Filled in a section of the PCT in the desert that I had to skip due to snow a few years ago. Weather was quite different… heat wave this time.

03/19/2026

Latest episode of Flower Power Garden Hour is out! Amorphophallus expert and plant explorer, Derek Carwood, joins the pod to talk everything … Amorphophallus! Listen on most podcast platforms and link in stories. Pic 1&2: pic 3 &4: Titan Arum corms pic 5: Derek with in situ amorph pic 6: mutant Titan discussed in episode