Lili Singer: take two fish emulsions and call me in the morning."How come the ice plant in the trunk of my car isn't blooming?" asked one radio caller in complete earnest. Without missing a beat, Singer shot back, "Well, are you parking in the sun or the shade?" As the David Viscott David Viscott, MD (May 24, 1938 - October 10, 1996), was an American psychiatrist, author, businessman, and media personality. He was a graduate of Dartmouth (1959), Tufts Medical School and taught at University Hospital in Boston. of horticulture on KCRW's amazingly popular The Garden Show, Singer has been tackling such botanical brainteasers since 1982, advising a loyal following of flora fans distraught over their dieffenbachia Dieffenbachia a genus of the plant family Araceae; contains insoluble raphide oxalate crystals, and possibly other toxins, which cause severe irritation of the oral mucosa, especially swelling of the tongue. Includes D. maculata, D. picta, D. seguinae. or befuddled by their bougainvillea bougainvillea or bougainvillaea (both: b  'gənvĭl`ēə) [for L. A. . And with gardening fast becoming the workout of the '90s, her soothing manner and expert advice is more popular than ever. "Basically, I'm a troubleshooter," says the nursery nabob, who comes from a family of green thumbs Green Thumbs is an episode of the animated TV series Beavis and Butt-Head. Characters: Beavis | Butt-head | Mr. Anderson | David Van Driessen | Coach Buzzcut | Principal McVicker | Daria | Todd | Stewart | Cornholio | (her father specializes in growing rare succulents) and now runs her own garden consulting business. She recently began publishing The Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, Gardener, a bimonthly bi·month·ly adj. 1. Happening every two months. 2. Happening twice a month; semimonthly. adv. 1. Once every two months. 2. Twice a month; semimonthly. n. pl. newsletter full of helpful hints for budding botanists, not to mention some chauvinistic flackery for local flowers. "Most books are written for a national audience," she says, "and don't apply to Southern California--even the instructions on seed packets are wrong." Alas, even with her wealth of knowledge (she can tell you the common and Latin name of most plants and fields questions sans reference books), there are some problems even the good doctor can't solve. "I'm real sorry," she had to tell one caller agonizing over an ailing citrus tree, "but it sounds terminal." Oh, and incidentally, she says with a smile, ice plant is a bad choice for your trunk. "Try shade-tolerant begonias instead." |
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