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.

Sweet-My First Book is Out – BEYOND TREND

July 31, 2008

OK, it’s not about plants, but it is about design. I thought I would share that my book is out, globally now, I think….

Summer display

July 31, 2008

I inherited these stairs that my friend had designed for her dog, so he could jump up onto the radiators to look out of…

English Sweet Peas

July 23, 2008

‘Tribute’, an intensely fragrant Spencer variety of Sweet Pea It’s only on the odd year that I try to grow the Spencer varieties of…

Mid Summer Flower Show

July 22, 2008

Annuals and Daylilies on the back porchThe Daylily variety is ‘Vintage Wine’Some new Orienpet lilies, planted last fall. Orienpets are newer crosses made between…

Blue and Yellow Garden

July 14, 2008

“Lilium ‘Moonlight Strain’, Lime-Intensely Fragrant Yellow Trumpet signal the peak of the July Lily season.My test plot, corner, for the blue and yellow garden…

Summer Lilies

July 8, 2008

The week after Independence Day is the traditional weekend for Lily Show’s in the North East. When I was a kid, I would grow…

Late June Gardening

June 30, 2008

A Severe Thunderstorm Approaches I can’t remember a time when we have had so many Thundershowers, with storms arriving most every evening, at night,…

My Little Pone

June 25, 2008

A New Garden

June 23, 2008

With overcast conditions, this was the perfect weekend to work on the new garden, in front of the greenhouse. My design has taken three…

Violent Spring…Silent Spring

June 17, 2008

Late Spring Storm DamageLast night we had a squall line of thunderstorms push through before a cold front, bringing to an end, the 100…