Growing With Plants

With only one quarter of the new vegetable garden and yet-to-be-named, blue and gold garden dug and planted, the Salvia planted last year is…

Well, it’s more like Lilium lost-the-lable-um.Please, if any of you know…..share your thoughts. My best guess is Lilium monadelphum, a turkscap-or, pendant lily natic…

A beautiful giant Allium ‘Gladiator’ blooms in the front yard garden. Too bad the honey bees arrive in a week, ( we bought two…

Primula sieboldii from Japan, blooming in the back vegetable garden. We received the collection three years ago and each of nearly forty named varieties…

New Troughs ready to plant with Alpines Corydalis solida before setting seed three weeks ago Corydalis solida seed capsules ripe and ready to harvest….

HAPPY….MOTHER’S…Day!!

Our lovely yellow magnolia ‘Gold Finch’ in now more like a Gold Finch in drab winter plumage. That Pelargonium bowkerii seedling I grew for…

Arenaria montanaOK….sure, this could be a Farrer Medal winning plant from any well-known potted alpine plant exhibit in the UK, but it’s not…..it’s from…

Pelargonium bowkeri Of the 230+ species of Pelargoinum, 185 are concentrated in the winter rainfal area of the south esters tip of South Africa….