Growing With Plants

Let me start with this statement – one will never truly appreciate the presence of an epidemium in the garden unless one plants one…

Time for a new garden! So, an excuse for a Rototiller smack-down. Troy bilt’s in the shed emerged for a one-on-one race to see…

I presume that most of us suffer the same plight  during these spring days – that of little time, and lots of chores. Once…

Here is a view of that incredible Davidia involucrata ‘ Vilmoriniana’ , along with D. involucrata ‘Sonoma’, one of the newer selections of Davidia…

As you grow with plants, sooner or later you will confront – –  the trough garden. Stone, hypertufa or slate sinks or troughs filled…

Green with envy yet? Meet ‘Sword’ a rare double exhibition auricula primrose once cherished during Victorian England, some were on display at the New…

A hedge of English Hornbeam (Carpinius betulus) gets trimmed twice a year, once in June, and once in September, but every few years it…

Primula elatior (this one grown by primrose expert Amy Olmsted in Vermont) as dug from the garden for a primrose exhibition, proves how resilient…

Those pots of Nemesia that I sowed in September, but then fussed a bit over by adjusting their pH, and monitoring their magnesium and…