Growing With Plants

Plant Trials

Growing Annual Vines in Pots

Plant Trials

My Surprising Nicotiana Trial Results

Plant Trials

Salpiglossis Techniques and Trials

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A Comprehensive review of all the wrong ways to grow Salpiglossis found on the Internet.

berrylicious

November 17, 2008

Nothing “says autumn” like berried plants, and never really appreciated until the leaves fall here in New England, are the berried plants which for…

Late Bloomers

November 17, 2008

Back in February, while attending the World Orchid Grand Prix in Tokyo, you may remember my complaining that my Coelogyne cristata has never bloomed,…

Massachusetts Orchid Society Show

November 6, 2008

LAst weekend ( halloween weekend here), our local Orchid society held its annual show at the Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, Massachusetts, an…

Narcissus viridiflora

November 1, 2008

Another autumn flowering Narcissus, the green flowered Narcissus viridiflora is currently in bloom. Every fall I seem to want to post a photo of…

Training Pine Trees -The Japanese Art of Niwaki

October 26, 2008

Last spring I bought the this wonderful book by Jake Hobson called Niwaki – Pruning, Training and Shaping Trees the Japanese Way published by…

The First Narcissus of Fall means…I’m bored?

October 26, 2008

Narcissus serotinus I get bored easily. This is not a very practical trait, but then again, no one will ever label me a one…

New York Botanical Garden – more autumnal inspiration

October 21, 2008

Here are a few more photos from our trip to the New York Botanical Garden. Above, the giant Queen Victoria waterlillys, with pads large…

KIKU – The Art of the Japanese Chrysanthemum at the New York Botanical Gardens

October 20, 2008

Chrysanthemums, trained to Ogiku style or ‘single-stem’ forms, are a traditional method of training certain chrysanthemums which require careful pinching, and disbudding throughout the…

Nerine Timey

October 13, 2008

Nerine sarniensis as cut flowers indoors. (The mural in our kitchen was painted by my dad in 1948, it features all of my brothers…

Moving Plants into greenhouse

October 7, 2008

We spent last weekend moving plants and tubs of trees into the greenhouse, since I will be traveling next weekend.Check out the size of…