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Tuberose in India

One summer, about 2006, I had the pleasure of visiting a Tuberose farm near Pune. Indian farm plots are quite small--this one was about an acre I think. Marigolds were planted along the edges, and interspersed with the tuberose.Like asparagus, tuberose grows as a single long stalk; not on a bush or tree. There is no relation to Rose--the Latin binomial is Polianthus tuberosa whereas roses all belong to the Rosa ssp.In India, tuberose flowers are primarily used in temples. In fact, about 8 …

Welcome 2022--Let's try something new

The last two years have been device-intense, and that's a mixed bag. On the one hand, aren't you glad we had it?  But enough already. Enough with the constant scrolling. Not only does it take our attention away from our actual lives, but it allows us to be manipulated and spied on, to become an actual product for those giant companies like facebook to sell our data to other giant companies.I'm not saying we should all stop all of this, because we quite obviously can't. But we sure as hell c …

2021 Winds Down

Wow, we are at the end of 2021, and I feel like we should plant our flags in the loamy soil of our souls--our own personal moons. Were you sure we'd get here? This year was insane and so difficult, for so many of us, and for so many reasons. No need to list them. But a lot of us suffered and a lot of us watched people we love suffer. The losses are beyond calculation. But it could still be far worse. I'm not here to remind anyone to "think positive" or whatever. I'm sure we are all trying t …