Happy New Year, plant friends! Thanks for your patience with our silence during the holiday season. Let’s kick off the new year with a reader photo. Responding to the bound agave photo we posted recently, Phyllis Fong sent in this photo of a plant that’s been tied up much more gently. Why? Well, that has her perplexed… and us too.
Posts Tagged ‘mexico’
Taxco, Mexico: Aloe with baby bows
Posted in From our readers, Plants worldwide, Questions & discussion, tagged aloe, bows, decoration, houseplant, mexico, potted plant, succulent, urban plants on 9 January 2014| 1 Comment »
Mexico: Jimena Lascurain finds poetry in plants
Posted in From our readers, Plants worldwide, tagged edible plants, flowers, food, mexico, mexico city on 2 August 2013| 7 Comments »
“A branch of a plant that stuck into the wall. The rest of the plant grows in the opposite direction.” In San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. By Jimena Lascurain.
Mexico: I’ve never seen the country, or its plants, with my own eyes. I only know the Mexican-American culture and plants that permeated my youth in California, which I loved, such as seeing edible cactus leaves, fresh tortillas and corn husks in every grocery store and eating paper plates of takeout tacos covered in cilantro. I will visit in person some day. But today, let’s travel there visually, via these urban plant photos shared by Jimena Lascurain in Mexico City.