Growing With Plants

In our sweltering heat of July, any Turnips left over in the garden generally become too woody to eat, but given our cool spring,…

Convolvulus tricolor ‘Royal Ensign’. Today, an uncommon cottage garden annual related to the morning glory.  To quote Google  today, “This land was made for…

LAST NIGHT’S GARDEN PARTY FEATURED  SWEET PEAS OF EVERY COLOR, GOOD FRIENDS AND ENOUGH FIREFLIES TO KEEP THINGS SPARKLING WAY INTO THE WEE HOURS….

CORAL COLORED CLARKIA AMOENA ‘AURORA’ AND PAPAVER COMMUNTATUM Hot, steamy heat – exactly what my California natives hate, but at least I know that…

VIEW OF THE LONG WALK, LOOKING SOUTH. A LARGE TUB OF AGAPANTHUS -THE BLUE LILY OF THE NILE, WHICH IS ABOUT TO BLOOM, HAS…

MUSSAENDA HYBRID ‘DOUBLE RED’ It’s like Christmas in June, except we here in New England are about to have a three day heat wave…

GREY POPPIES? SURE. LOOK FROM SELECTIONS WITH GENTLE COLOR PALETTES, SUCH AS THIS  STRAIN CALLED ‘MOTHER OF PEARL’, WHERE COLORS SUCH AS GREY, PEARL…

It was touch and go, just a week ago, as my sweet pea crop began to fail, seemingly overnight, just as the first flowers…