Matt Mattus, Author at Growing With Plants

Daily Awesome – Geissorhiza or Hesperantha

March 28, 2011

OK, to be honest, this is another one of those lost tag seedling pots, which I know is at the very least, an Irid,…

Spring Close-Up’s with the new lens

March 28, 2011

Crocus sieberi ‘tricolor’ The coral-bark Maple, has branches that virtually glow in the dull landscape of March. A golden needled pine. It’s at its…

Spring Alpine House Bulbs

March 25, 2011

Bellevalia speciosa? Hardly. Sometime when one orders unusual or rare bulbs from a supplier, things become mixed up, and that it what I beleive…

Daily Awesome – Fritillaria meleagris

March 24, 2011

A pot of forced Fritillaria meleagris, or Snakes Head Lilies is neither a lily nor the ‘snakey head’ form of F, meleagris,for without the…

Planting Containers – Cool Specimen Plants

March 23, 2011

There is nothing quite like a tall massive container of Cyperus papyrus. This weekend we picked up some 4 inch pots of a very…

Old Fashioned Annuals from Seed

March 21, 2011

Nemesia, Salpiglosis, Schizanthus, Larkspurs – want old fashioned annuals? Always start your own from seed, follow directions and pray for a long, cold, spring….

Starting Seeds? Do your homework, then sow.

March 21, 2011

It’s just about time to sow tomatoes, any earlier, and you are compromising your crop From Old Fashioned rarely seed garden annuals to the…

Crocus in New England

March 20, 2011

A spectacular meadow of naturalized Crocus tommasinianus at our friends Mike and David’s new house in Woodstock, CT. Here, they planted hundreds of crocus,…

Gladiolus watsonius, I presume?

March 20, 2011

Gladiolus watsonius We rarely get to see wild Gladiolus here in North America, but the species forms from South Africa which must be grown…

For all of my friends in Japan

March 14, 2011

Thoughts on Japan. With the recent horrible events in northern Japan, and the Miyagi Prefecture where I have spent so many days over my…