Must Have Peonies-Itoh Intersectionals June 19, 2006 Itoh Intersectional-‘Garden Treasure’Sure, there are yellow peony available. Many of the tree peony crosses are yellow, as are many of the hard-to-find species coming… Continue Reading
Iris variegata June 17, 2006 After a week away at a conference in the heat of the desert in Las Vegas, it’s nice to come home to late spring… Continue Reading
Shake Your Rebutia June 9, 2006 The Bolivian cactus Rebutia pulchella What’s wrong with people? Why don’t other people grow these? Ther are SO many genus and species of various… Continue Reading
Garden walk in the rain June 5, 2006 Cyrtanthus brachyscyphusThe rain has not kept us from working in the garden, and even though it is flooding, many things we’re still planted since… Continue Reading
Iris gracilipes var. alba May 30, 2006 The Iris is an important flower in Japan. As with many seasonal plants and flowers, the period when the Iris species native to Japan… Continue Reading
Asleep for the summer May 22, 2006 Nerine sariniensis entering summer dormancy This last weekend in May, which is a three-day holiday in America – Memorial Day- marks the start of… Continue Reading
A Plethora of Auricula May 21, 2006 Primula auricula are spring blooming primroses that are hardly ever seen at garden centers or in mail order catalogs. Over the years, I have… Continue Reading
Acquiring a Primrose Collection May 15, 2006 Our Friends garden before we started digging primula The Car Full of Primroses We spent the weekend helping a friend, well, actually, it was… Continue Reading
Anemones and Anemonella’s: More Spring Ephemerals May 12, 2006 Anemonella thalictroides ‘Oscar Schoaf’The wild Wood Anemone, Anemone quinquefolia, which grows in large colonies in the wood behind our our house (and which still… Continue Reading
Bladder pods to Wasabi: Brassicas in Bloom May 11, 2006 Wasabia japonica Anyone who has had the good fortune to eat at a high-end Japanese restaurant, such as Nobu, knows what a treat fresh… Continue Reading
