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.

Random ramblings – September week 1

September 7, 2006

Ipomoea platenseThis relative of the common morning glory look more like a cactus than a vine, but once it blooms, one can easliy see…

Clerodendron bungeii

September 5, 2006

Clerodendron bungei Fast growing tropical plants with magnificent late summer displays like this Clerodendron bungei, were at one time, only found only in botanic…

Bye bye, Summer and a new computer

September 1, 2006

Tulbaghia blossoms – last of the seasonFall is allabout new clothes, fresh pencils, and new computers. It’s back to school time. But, for me,…

Old School Daffs:The Miniature Winter-Blooming Narcissus

August 24, 2006

August is the time to plant these tiny precious and rarely seen Narcissus species. I grow many of the bulbocodium types of Hoop Daffodils…

A walk in the garden – August

August 23, 2006

The intensely fragrant Cestrum nocturnum shares it’s scent only at night Since I am so busy working on my book on design trends, which…

Zephyranthes- Rain Lilies

August 19, 2006

Zephyranthes ‘Labuffarosa’ I never intended on collecting Zephyranthes, to be honest, one comes across them in many specialty bulb catalogs, and even sometimes in…

Madagascar Summer

August 16, 2006

Uncarina grandidieri has 3″ wide flowers Caudex or Caudiciform plants are perhaps the strangest plants which are collected by enthusiasts. What often look like…

Oh… whoa… whoa… it’s magic, (I know)

August 11, 2006

Around the world Epyphyllum oxypetalum bloom precisely during the full moon of summer HAWAII, HONOLULU, SEPTEMBER 1981……. I attending college in Hawaii. (yeah, I…

GARDEN TRENDS: Hello Japan 1

August 9, 2006

The Samurai Orchid, Neofinetia falcata Gardening and collecting plants is an experiencce which is so deeply personal to each of us, often rooted just…

Brugmansia Fragrance

August 7, 2006

Brugmansia cultivars love the heat and humidity A week ago today, the buds on this yellow Brugmansia were only an inch ,ong or so,…