Growing With Plants

Many folks asked me about how my ‘special projects’ were progressing, at the Sakonnet Symposium this past weekend – so here is an update….

They are the gamechangers of the lily world – new interspecific hybrids are changing how we all think about lilies. So get this.  This…

These lilies reminded me that sometimes, we forget that bulbs can do well in pots – particularly lilies (um…Easter lilies grow in pots, right?)…

It’s during these long days in Early July, just after the summer solstice, when many garden plants suddenly take off – and if one…

This year, even the containers on the deck and around our outside sitting area are planted with blue and gold annuals. Sure, I mixed…

I love odd color combinations, and our window boxes this summer show just how great a container can look when one gets a little…

Self-seeded biennials like Foxgloves (digitalis) continue to emerge in random locations around my garden – all tracking back to an original planting of seed-raised…

A large golden yellow Rebutia sp. thrives on neglect, and winter cold ( if kept dry) in a bonsai pot. I must have been…

I love books. I love to read, and I especially enjoy gardening books by serious plant people, and few come as serious as Vita…