This week I have a pink cymbidium blooming. This is one I got since coming to NorCal. I helped a lady divide and repot some cymbidiums she had gotten from her mother in SF. I would have picked another if I knew it was pink. It is pretty nice for a pink however and because it bloomed for me, it gets a place of honor. So far only my green from the SoCal collection has bloomed here for me but I havn’t given up yet. Ever the optimist, I bought another cymb at the SF Garden Show last week. This one is a beautiful white. At least the mother plant is. I have a start which will take a year or so to reach blooming size.
Keeping Calcium where it belongs as you age
Vitamin’s K and D are important for health and even more important for good health as you age. Earlier posts discussed the fact that most adults today are deficient in Vitamin D and probably never heard of Vitamin K but today’s post is about the importance of both Vitamins working in tandem to keep calcium in the bones where it belongs and out of the arteries where it doesn’t. [continue reading…]
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