Wendy’s Whimsical Garden Collections

09/02/2026

Happy to see you! Carnivorous pitcher plants are so much fun!

09/02/2026

09/02/2026

I may take a trip next spring to heal my pancreas and gallbladder and liver anything everything! I dream of going! I became plant based when i got sick! Dr sebi saved my life even though he has passed away his legacy lives on!
Alkaline foods mucus free diet and detox !

09/01/2026

Canceled wed market due to rain wind ! Can come out to greenhouse and shop

08/31/2026

Ten times stronger than the chemical in most commercial repellents, and it grows wild in backyards. That's not a marketing claim — that's what controlled laboratory testing revealed when researchers put catnip oil head to head against DEET. The numbers were so lopsided that scientists ran the experiments again just to be sure.

Here's what's actually happening inside a mosquito when it gets near catnip. A mosquito doesn't see the way we do. It hunts almost entirely by smell, following invisible chemical trails through the air — carbon dioxide from breath, lactic acid rising off warm skin, dozens of other molecular signals the human body broadcasts constantly. The insect has specialized smell receptors tuned precisely to those frequencies, like a radio antenna locked onto a single station.

Catnip oil doesn't just add noise to that signal. It floods the entire system. The compound responsible, called nepetalactone, hits so many of those smell receptors at once that the mosquito's ability to read the chemical landscape collapses completely. The human standing three feet away might as well not exist. The signal is still there — the mosquito's sensors are simply too overwhelmed to distinguish it from the roar of everything else.

That confusion window holds for roughly two and a half hours under laboratory conditions. Citronella, which most people think of as the gold standard of natural repellents, manages about forty minutes of strong protection before its oils disperse into the air and the effect fades. The difference in staying power between the two plants is almost as striking as the difference in raw potency.

And here's the layer that makes this genuinely strange. Cats lose their minds over catnip because that same nepetalactone triggers an ecstatic response in feline brain chemistry. The same molecule that sends a house cat rolling across the floor is, through an entirely different biological mechanism, shutting down one of the most precise hunting systems in the insect world. One compound. Two completely opposite reactions. A predator enchanted and a predator blinded, all from a single garden herb that spreads like a w**d if left alone in summer soil.

Plants cannot run. They cannot hide. So some of them learned to chemically rewrite the senses of whatever comes for them.

The quietest defense is sometimes the one nobody sees coming. [HX961]

08/30/2026

Lakview fair sep3-7 and burns harney fair sep9-12
Will be gone two weeks at fairs! Going to be an adventure ! Booth setup will be amazing ! Im
Almost ready to go!

08/30/2026

Canceled due to rain and wind 😞 Wed farmer market coosbay i will have many many pitcher plants for sale they are rare beautys!

08/29/2026

So much to go ! Come shop the greenhouse two days left mon and tues then can come in two weeks after fairs .