Matt Mattus, Author at Growing With Plants

More Fall Mums

November 15, 2006

Seizan is a yellow, small flowered Mum known as a cascade type, the plants are planted in June as cuttings, and then trained along…

Fancy Chrysanthemums

November 11, 2006

Like so many traditions, the art of fine Chrysanthemum growing is long forgotten in most of the world, replaced with growth-retardent hyper-pinched and fertilized…

tiny Nerine rehmannii

November 11, 2006

Nerine rehmanii This tiny Nerine, is very small, the flowers reach barly four inches high. Nerine rehmannii is native to Swaziland in South Africa,…

Peak Nerine sarniensis bloom

November 5, 2006

A selection of Nerine sarniensis crosses, most from the United Kingdom’s National Collection, kept by Ken Hall at Springbank Nursery on the Isle of…

Nerine sarniensis 1

November 3, 2006

Finally, I am home after traveling for work all month. Hopefully, November will be a little less hectic, although, I do have a book…

Bulbous South Afrifan Oxalis

October 23, 2006

A sandbed filled with blooming Oxalils species The bloom season is peaking for the bulbous Oxalis, and both the species from South Africa and…

The first bulbous Oxalis of the season

October 17, 2006

Oxalis zeekoviensis Over the next month, the collection of Oxalis species that are native to South Africa and which grow from various tiny bulbs,…

Nearing peak bloom in the fall greenhouse

October 14, 2006

oxalis lobata, a rare South African bulbous oxalis speciesNow that I am back from traveling, a busy week at work was finalized by a…

late season brilliance

October 2, 2006

Leonotis leonurus, just starting to bloomThis orange member of the mint family struts its stuff in the ;autumn, jsut before frost. Thankfully, this year,…

More Fall Bloom

September 26, 2006

Clerodendron speciosissimum This striking red flowered member of the clerodendron clan also blooms in the autumn, just before frost. Started from cuttings in april,…