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Summer Rainbow Border

August 29, 2007

Summer Bulbs in Containers

August 27, 2007

Surely not very exciting to most growers unless you are a collector, I share with you a collection of summer-growing South African bulbs. Relatively…

Samurai Orchid

August 19, 2007

Neofinetia falcata, or the Samurai Orchid, is a tiny, fragrant, and highly collectable orchid from Japan, where it has many fans, and clubs organized…

High Summer, hello autumn?

August 15, 2007

The tropicals front of the greenhouse continue to mature in the late summer heat of last week. I think Fergus can smell the brugmansia….

Hot Plant Trend alert- Welcome to Crocosmia

August 8, 2007

Crocosmia – the Gladioli of the millenium. Well, more acurately, the Irid of the Millenium. These members of the Iris family are the South…

The rest of the family

August 6, 2007

Our newest – Meet the Homing pigeons. Rollers, actually. Just realized that I havn’t posted in a week and a half, guess that’s what…

About Color and Planning

July 24, 2007

OK….I admit it….I really never, ever took the time to either create color palettes or plan any garden in my life before. I’m not…

On being a plant snob.

July 16, 2007

Daylilly – ‘Siloam June Bug’I never really think of myself as someone who grows flowers. I mean, I hate it when friends at work…

True Blue, it’s true.

July 9, 2007

It used to be held by morning glories, then, but Forget-me-nots, but today, the title-holder for more-in-demand flower, goes to not to these blue…

The Primula of the Alps

June 26, 2007

Two years ago while botanizing in the Italian Dolomites, I was advised by our friend Ed Buyarski, president of the American Primula Society, that…

Growing With Plants

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