black magic re-potting

Last weekend, I bought a Black Magic plant at my nursery.  It’s commonly called ‘taro’, and from what I’ve read online, it’s in the arum family and is related to the calla lily.  The Black Magic plant is very beautiful.  It has large velvet-like  purple-y black leaves. When I bought it, it was healthy but…

the colour of summer

What does summer mean to you? Warmth? Hotels? Beaches? Travel? To Guyanese, summer is known as “August holidays”.  Regardless of what it’s called, it’s when weeks stretch languidly into each other, the vacation all children dream of.  That feeling of what summer embodies starts in childhood and perhaps it never leaves us.  It’s the time…