By Tommy Clarkson from the August 2010 Edition The creator Snoopy of that Loop popular-in as much cartoon as Charles strip once Schultz,owned the all of the property around it – and the highway whose bayside shoulder drops almost immediately onto the Santiago Bay’s beach, is a mangrove . . and much, much more! Howard, […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the August 2010 Edition ……..discusses some basics in starting a tropical garden The lush and colorful vegetation which abounds in west coastal Mexico is mind bogglingly beautiful. Around here we have a vast, highly diverse and simply sumptuous array of plants, flora and trees from which to choose. Perhaps the biggest […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the August 2010 Edition There once was a sixty-five year old man who refused to think that he was that age. He was 190 pounds, e’rrrr, or so, and he liked to eat. He was not – shall we say – intolerant of alcohol consumption. And years as a jogger had […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the August 2010 Edition (The following is a slightly embellished and bit fictionalized account of an almost real event!) . . . it may be a brother-in-law, next door neighbor or that particularly irritating high school bully badly who has gone badly to seed. You know the kind – those guys […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the August 2010 Edition There once was a sixty-five year old man who refused to think that he was that age. He was 190 pounds, e’rrrr, or so, and he liked to eat. He was not – shall we say – intolerant of alcohol consumption. And years as a jogger had […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the August 2010 Edition (The following is a slightly embellished and bit fictionalized account of an almost real event!) . . . it may be a brother-in-law, next door neighbor or that particularly irritating high school bully badly who has gone badly to seed. You know the kind – those guys […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the July 2010 Edition This morning, sometime between my second cup of coffee and my much anticipated breakfast of a big bowl of fresh tropical fruit and Patty’s newly made granola, a time warp continuum influx seems to have taken place –right there in our very own home here in Santiago […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the July 2010 Edition • . . . . Cut palm fronds (leaves) off until there are fully yellowed, brown or clearly dead – in which state they can no longer provide a conduit for nutrients to the palm. Not dissimilar to our organs, along with the roots, they are an […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the July 2010 Edition ( Roystonea regia ) Family: Arecacea Subfamily: Arecoideae The genus was once referred to as Oreodoxa but was changed to honor an Army engineer General Roy Stone who served in the Caribbean around 1900. There are approximately 22 species in this Roystoneas genus. However, the following comments […]
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By Tommy Clarkson from the July 2010 Edition As many who read my column “Planting Roots in Mexico” know, nearly every day I can be found – along with my faithful friend and plant pal, Paco – working in our tropical gardens. But at some time this morning, mid-frond trim, the semantic question hit me. […]
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