Growing With Plants

Growing Annual Vines in Pots

March 16, 2006

Todays Clivia picture is another cross of our own. Not sure if it is worth moving ahead breeding with, but I admit that I…

March 15, 2006

I am, and shall remain, an amateur plant breeder. So,it is with a dabble of pollen here, and a paintbrush there, that occaisonally I…

March 15, 2006

Clivia Daydream If your idea of a Clivia is the bright orange Clivia miniata, then bookmark this blog, since the first of a collection…

March 14, 2006

Hemispheres Both in spring, and autumn, the plant collector gets to enjoy a bit of cross-over. That strange period where plants from the southern…

March 14, 2006

Lovin’ the Lachenalia These easy of easiest bulbs still impress me, not only because of their ease, but because they perform so nicely in…

March 14, 2006

March 13, 2006

Hail the Mud Season I sometimes imagine that the gardeners calendar is not that of twelve months, but that of fifteen. Fifteen distinct seasons….