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 Guess most people DO love Poinsettias for the Advent and Christmas season. But do you know its history? Poinsettia Day  ←click link The dat...

On Tuesday, September 15, 1998 we both traveled again to India for consulting service to a new mushroom company in Pune,  A business ma...

THANK you all for the many Birthday wishes; here and on FB!  Most of my readers do know that we have worked and lived on the islan...

Poinsettia Day  ←click link  December 12th is Poinsettia Day . The date marks the death of Joel Roberts Poinsett, an American botanist,...

History of the Poinsettia In 1825, Mexican Ambassador and Charleston native, Joel Roberts Poinsett found a pulchritudinous red flow...

In our garden we do have this special pink-blooming tree: Pinckneya Scientific name ( Pinckneya pubens ) Common name - Fever tree; ...

On this day in 1993 I got my  United States Citizenship! So this is my 17th birthday... as a proud American. We got up very early at...