Growing With Plants

With 8 inches of heavy wet snow on this April Fool’s Day, I feel obligated to share the prerequisite Hamamelis and crocus-in-the-snow shots (sans…

National Park Service Photo of the Olmstead, property. A 200 year old historic American Elm is scheduled to be cut down this week as…

Aside from the familiar Nasturtiums of cottage gardens and window boxes, the genus Tropaeolum does present some hidden jewels known only amongst the elite…

Crocus sieberi ‘tricolor’ The coral-bark Maple, has branches that virtually glow in the dull landscape of March. A golden needled pine. It’s at its…