Growing With Plants

Tis the season for Rain Lilies, Zephyranthes candida, one of those bulbs I cannot live without for its carefree surprise blooms in late summer,…

MARGARET  –  (JULY 4, 2001 – AUGUST 30, 2011)  Last night, as the sun was setting in a meadow under a clear, evening sky,…

A collection of ‘gold from the woodland’, our gift from Hurricane Irene’s rains. Wild late summer mushrooms, often called the king of the forest….

Lydia patiently watches the rainy garden as the outer bands of Hurricane Irene’ begin to reach us. Her full force is expected to hit…

Gladiolus ‘Atomic‘, G. primulinus ‘Mirella’, a miniature all red species-type of Glad, in a vintage vase that was my mothers, on our front porch.  Many…

Petronymphe decora These are some of the rarest plants on earth, for you will never find these at nurseries, or in bulb catalogs, in…

French Heirloom Melons in the greenhouse! – It’s an idea I found in an 1802 gardening book about how early New Englanders raised table…

HEIRLOOM TOMATOES, ALL IN A DAYS HARVEST IN AUGUST  It’s high summer, and although I cannot grow as many vegetables as I wish I…

It’s true, you desperate houseplants, now you can tweet for help! I’ve been wanting to do a post on digital advances in gardening for…