May 5, 2025
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Painted Moutain Corn: A Legacy of Indigenous Agriculture
In honour of Native American Heritage Month 2025, learn about the beautiful Painted Mountain Corn (Zea mays var. amylacea) with me, Dr. Katia Hougaard. Pleaes note that Painted Mountain Corn is NOT a historical indigenous heritage variety, but it was developed from extensive hybridisation of indigenous North American corn varieties with varieties bred by Euro-American colonisers in the 1970s. According to maize expert Stephen Smith (https://www.instagram.com/maizemagician/) Painted Mountain Corn has ancestry from traditional corn varieties bred by the Mandan and Osage indigenous people, and this variety resembles Mandan Bride Corn.
i’m not dead, the executives in my brain are just NOT functioning lately
have a Rawry with a dracaena fragrans 💚
When does a house plant become a home plant? -them
Columbo S9E2 “Columbo Cries Wolf” (1990)
Fern spotted at 0:31! Looks like another lady fern.
Later in the episode we get, not quite the ultimate combo, but still a delight: Columbo in hip waders amid a forest of Kimberly queen ferns.
Bonus plant: a corn plant receiving enough light.
June 2024: Around The Garden
Friday's harvest:
The view from the seating area in the backyard garden:
Looks to the left:
Look to the right:
Our corn is starting to tassel:
Just a house sparrow taking a bath:
A running water feature is the second best thing you can put of to attract birds to your yard:
Saturday's harvest:
Adventures in dog walking - blurry bat photo edition. I think this is my best photo of a bat yet. Based solely on what bats are most common in our area, it is probably a Little Brown or a Tricolored bat (aka an Eastern Pipistrelle as they were formerly called... I still call them that because it is the common name I learned growing up & because I just enjoy saying "pipistrelle"):
Many years ago an ex of mine gave me a poor twig of a plant he had been neglecting. His ex had given it to him long before that. This plant is a Corn Plant (Dracaena). This week it flowered. I didn't even know they did that. The flowers only open at night and have a strong smell that not everyone loves. I have decided that this strong smell, a smell that most find annoying, must be the smell of exes past.
I live in a jungle that just keeps getting more and more full of greenery 🌿🏵️🌿