Growing With Plants

Whose that with Martha Stewart in the middle of this image? Why, no other than Kevin Sharkey.  I covet my Podophyllum pleianthum as much as…

Yes, that’s nurserydude and author Joseph Tychonievich admiring the awesome stock beds of trillium at the New England Wild Flower Society’s Garden in the…

Primula sieboldii selections from our garden ( from two years ago)  range from delicate snowflake shapes, to phlox-like pinks, to noddinggeisha types which are…

I have a soft spot for dark, slate colored selections of Helleborus. This one is a classic Heronswood selection. Last year, I divided all…

Get your gardening questions ready ( and make them interesting!). Tonight, I and a few of my fellow Troy Bilt Saturday6 bloggers will be…

The Ghost Tree, or Fabled Dove Tree, Davidia involucrata surprised me this spring, by finally blooming after 15 years. Perhaps in no other time…

Last night, after four days of plant society meetings and work at home, I treated Joe and myself to an amazing lecture and presentation…

It’s a magnificent spring here in New England, with daytime temps above freezing, and night temperatures near freezing, which has allowed native trees and…

Red an golden garden flowers paired well with black hellebores, salmon gasteria and vermillion nasturtiums from the greenhouse, just one of the arrangements we…