Cereus : The Queen of The Night
Background Cereus cacti are native to South America, particularly east of the Andes Mountains. They are also found in the southern Caribbean islands. Specific countries [...]
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RDG Spring 2025 Summary
Looking at some of our previous posts, we realized that it had been a couple of years since we did a Spring Summary of the RainyDayGarden (RDG)! Some things in the RDG have [...]
Patterns In Bloom @ NEBG
Boston used to host the Massachusetts Horticultural Society‘s huge annual New England Spring Flower Show, which heralded the beginning of Spring. We think the show [...]
Starting seeds collected from pods
A few years ago we began collecting pods out of the flowers in the RainyDayGarden in the hope that some of them would germinate. The experiment was fairly successful, [...]
Urban Safari : Wellesley College Botanical Gardens and Greenhouses
Inspired by some reader emails about “Indoor Blooms” around Boston, we took a short trip out to Wellesley College to visit their Botanical Gardens and [...]
The Fig is thinking Spring
No…that six foot plant without any leaves is NOT dead. It is our fig tree Sookie. The fig tree was a gift from my friend Larry Murray who was up from the Cape for an [...]
Jade blooms
It is not often that both the Christmas cacti and the Jade plants are blooming at the same time! Sure… the Christmas cacti may be more showy, but the delicate little [...]
RDG Winter Prep
When the leaves start falling, it is a signal for the RainyDayGarden crew to go into prep mode for Winter. We have to make sure we have plenty of bird seed, put away all the [...]
RDG’s 2014 Summery Summary
Summer ended about a month ago. The weather was so pleasant this year in New England that we didn’t notice it the season changing until the autumnal colors started [...]
RDG 2014 Spring Update
Now that Summer has officially started, we want to do a quick look back at how Spring went in the RainyDayGarden. April: Because of the long Winter, the plants got going a [...]
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