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Horticulturist Matt Mattus shares gardening expertise, research and science from his home garden and greenhouse.

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A hardy gloxinia -Sinningia tubiflora

July 13, 2010

I think I have finally mastered growing Sinningia tubiflora, one of the many new ‘hardier’ gesneriads, those plants in the African Violet family, which…

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so what’s this about ‘woo-woo’? a video explains

July 13, 2010

Margaret Roach, gardener, author, good digital friend and former Martha Stewart Editor shares what makes gardening so Woo Woo for her. Check this out….

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Black Calla Lilies and Green Zinnia’s

July 12, 2010

This weekend I picked some of the black and green flowers in the garden, in an effort to make an arrangement for a dinner…

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Garden Folly

July 8, 2010

I have so many plant show ribbons, that fill my closets and potting shed, which I just adore because of their wierd, innocent, naive…

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Christmas in July? – go Pohutukawa!

July 7, 2010

Metrosideros excelsa – The New Zealand Christmas Tree It’s funny how off I am sometimes. I go and buy these plants, with the idea…

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Japanese flower prints circa 1900

July 7, 2010

I love how the artist focused on these Lupine seed pods. I just found this wonderful reproduction Japanese wood block prints on Winter Works…

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Eucryphia glutinosa

July 6, 2010

In bloom today is rather rare, if not unusual small tree, Eucryphia glutinosa,  a Chilean tree with white, camellia-like blossoms, many of which have…

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Lily, Lily, Rose, on the Fourth of July

July 5, 2010

Downfacing Asiatics are something that I cannot resist, although they are not that easy to find, at least at retail garden centers. One must…

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The perils of travel, Plant Loss and Recovery

July 5, 2010

I lost many plants to bad plant care, while in Switzerland for two weeks. But the container garden has been reset, and any losses…

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Primula in these Alps of the Bernese Oberland

June 27, 2010

A yellow Primula auricula, growing on the upper slopes of the Eiger, in a damp snow run-off with Ranunculus glacialis. This trip brought us…

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