Growing With Plants

I almost forgot to check on this shrub, until my sister called be ( she live above the garage in the other house that…

PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM, A FRINGED FORM GROWING IN LAST YEARS GARDEN – I AM SOWING THESE THIS WEEKEND. As the popularity grows with seldom-grown annuals…

CLOCHES ARE SET OUT, ALL STEAMED UP FROM THE DAMP, SOIL, AS THE AIR QUICKLY CHILLS DOWN FOR THE EVENING IN MID-MARCH. WE CAN…

THE 2012 SPRING BULB SHOW AT THE SMITH COLLEGE LYMAN CONSERVATORY – A WOW EXPERIENCE THAT SURPRISED BOTH OF US.  In many ways this…

Not a public flower show, but  – kind of my private one. This was my sand plunge bed from last spring, with a few…

Left, clockwise: The golden tinted Sedum nussbaumeerianum, The pickle-like leaves of Senecio rubrotinctum, in two color forms, and a teal-colored unknown below. All are…

Lydia, our Irish Terrier leaps around the garden enjoying the new snowfall as a Hamamellis x intermedia blooms, heavy with wet, spring snow. This…

A large tub of the awesomely large Australian naive Dendrobium speciosum, blooms next to a smaller, and more common cousin, Dendrobium kingianum. Both are…