Growing With Plants

A tiny rare wild Gladiolus species from the Cape of South African, Gladiolus alatus blooms in a small clay pot, just as the pot…

Helleborus x hybridus ‘Heronswood Black Purple Strain’ These are the days when in just one week, the entire garden can change seasons. One day,…

Troughs were invented by Victorian gardeners, turning stone sinks from old farms into gravelly filled containers in which they could grow plants collected from…

FOR THE GREENHOUSE OR COLD WINDOWSILL ONLY, PRIMULA OBCONICA CANNOT SURVIVE OUTDOORS IN ZONES 9 OR LOWER. I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED P. OBCONICA, BUT…

OUR NATIVE ( AND STATE WILDFLOWER FOR MASSACHUSETTS) MAYFLOWER,DESPITE ITS NAME, TYPICALLY BLOOMS IN MARCH – MOST NATIVE PLANTS EMERGE LATER THAN IMPORTED ONES…

I’m a risk-taker. So I can’t help myself with all of the unseasonably warm and record-breaking weather in the eastern US, I’ve been moved…