miscellany
Susan Albert is looking for information about how the plant called "poverty weed" or "Roosevelt weed" got its names. I recall hearing a story once about it being used for erosion control during the Dust Bowl years. Anybody know anything more about this?
As a follow-up to my story on red spider lilies, it turns out that a blurb on the same plant was posted at Zanthan Gardens on the same day. I especially liked the picture of the lilies against a purple ground cover. I have some of that purple too, but it had not occurred to me to combine it.
I am a "spatial thinker," according to this test I took, following a link at The Coffee Sutras. Qualities of spatial thinkers are Tend to think in pictures, and can develop good mental models of the physical world
Think well in three dimensions
Have a flair for working with objects
