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My Surprising Nicotiana Trial Results

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Salpiglossis Techniques and Trials

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

Holiday Blooms

December 26, 2006

Tis the season. But here in New England, even though, as I miss-informed you in my last posting about the zone changes (I really…

USDA Zone Changes

December 21, 2006

Just in case you have friends who don’t believe that global warming is happening, please note this landmark event— The National Arbor Day Foundation…

Move over Paperwhites… Welcome to the other winter narcissus

December 8, 2006

Narcissus viridiflora, the rare green flowered Narcissis Not all Narcissus are yellow or while, just as not all narcissus are spring blooming. This precious…

Now for the rare stuff…

December 3, 2006

Cyrtanthus species (most likely C. elatus X) This unknown species, or most likely a cross between two species of Cyrtanthus blooms regularly for me…

Final Nerines

November 28, 2006

French Parma Violets I wrote earlier (like in April) about the lost art of growing French scented violets, or Parma Violets, and now, as…

Giving thanks for foliage

November 24, 2006

English Oak -Quercus rober This collumnular english Oak not only produces beautiful slender acorns, it also displays this curios color of chartruse yellow in…

More Fall Mums

November 15, 2006

Seizan is a yellow, small flowered Mum known as a cascade type, the plants are planted in June as cuttings, and then trained along…

Fancy Chrysanthemums

November 11, 2006

Like so many traditions, the art of fine Chrysanthemum growing is long forgotten in most of the world, replaced with growth-retardent hyper-pinched and fertilized…

tiny Nerine rehmannii

November 11, 2006

Nerine rehmanii This tiny Nerine, is very small, the flowers reach barly four inches high. Nerine rehmannii is native to Swaziland in South Africa,…

Peak Nerine sarniensis bloom

November 5, 2006

A selection of Nerine sarniensis crosses, most from the United Kingdom’s National Collection, kept by Ken Hall at Springbank Nursery on the Isle of…