Matt Mattus, Author at Growing With Plants

Duality – Bulbs with Interesting Pairs of Leaves

December 1, 2008

Dormant for one year, this lone, single leaf on a Resnova megaphylla shows how stunning even a single leaf can be. Native ot a…

A Walk in the November Woods and Berry Bowls

November 29, 2008

Partridge Berries (Mitchella repens) in the woods near our house. Once collected for use as a winter Holiday decoration in small, glass bowls called…

What Plant Societies Need to Do to Survive

November 25, 2008

My prototype for a modernized, yet very classic looking Journal design for the North American Rock Garden Society. A website design, for a modern…

November Cheer in the Greenhouse

November 25, 2008

A view of the greenhouse on an unseasonably cold November day. As temperatures hovered near 18 deg. F, ice forming on the glass and…

berrylicious

November 17, 2008

Nothing “says autumn” like berried plants, and never really appreciated until the leaves fall here in New England, are the berried plants which for…

Late Bloomers

November 17, 2008

Back in February, while attending the World Orchid Grand Prix in Tokyo, you may remember my complaining that my Coelogyne cristata has never bloomed,…

Massachusetts Orchid Society Show

November 6, 2008

LAst weekend ( halloween weekend here), our local Orchid society held its annual show at the Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, Massachusetts, an…