Author: Matt Mattus

I have to be honest here – there are some very important plant destinations which are near me, and which I have never visited….

No wonder poets, song writers and yes, even garden writers pine on about June. It’s long days are packed romance, vigor, abundance and vitality…

Even if you are not a gardener, or even an outdoorsy-person, I think that it’s safe to say that June is the month that…

Let me start with this statement – one will never truly appreciate the presence of an epidemium in the garden unless one plants one…

Time for a new garden! So, an excuse for a Rototiller smack-down. Troy bilt’s in the shed emerged for a one-on-one race to see…

I presume that most of us suffer the same plight  during these spring days – that of little time, and lots of chores. Once…

Here is a view of that incredible Davidia involucrata ‘ Vilmoriniana’ , along with D. involucrata ‘Sonoma’, one of the newer selections of Davidia…

As you grow with plants, sooner or later you will confront – –  the trough garden. Stone, hypertufa or slate sinks or troughs filled…

Green with envy yet? Meet ‘Sword’ a rare double exhibition auricula primrose once cherished during Victorian England, some were on display at the New…

A hedge of English Hornbeam (Carpinius betulus) gets trimmed twice a year, once in June, and once in September, but every few years it…