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Horticulturist Matt Mattus shares gardening expertise, research and science from his home garden and greenhouse.

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Plant Trials

Growing Annual Vines in Pots

Plant Trials

My Surprising Nicotiana Trial Results

Plant Trials

Salpiglossis Techniques and Trials

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A Comprehensive review of all the wrong ways to grow Salpiglossis found on the Internet.

Rare Tender Rhododendrons for Greenhouses

October 1, 2010

The hard to find Rhododendron ‘Cinnkeys’ has tubular blossoms that look more like a Cyrtanthus falcata from South Africa ( a bulb in the…

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My Brunsvigia bosmaniae Blooms. A ‘documentary experience’, right in my own back yard.

September 27, 2010

BRUNSVIGIA BOSMANIAE Blooming in a large container “Is it? Is iT? Oh my gosh! Oh my Gosh, Oh my gosh!!! It’s a freaking bud”…

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The African Foxglove ( as if Africa has foxes …and gloves).

September 24, 2010

Ceratotheca triloba is hardly ‘new’, it was popular amongst the informed British gardeners in Victorian England, and featured  by Jos. Hooker in an 1888…

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The Gardening World Mourns the Loss of Wayne Winterrowd, horticultural Legend, Dead at 68.

September 22, 2010

Wayne Winterrowd (right) , garden book author, with his partner Joe Eck ( left). and their dog Harry. According to their son Fotios, “Today, there…

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Colchicum or Autumn Crocus? What should you plant?

September 22, 2010

Colchicum ‘Waterlily’, a single bulb will mature into a small clump in a few years.  Colchicum always surprise me. I mean, I know where…

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A Pleasant Visit to Pleasant Valley

September 21, 2010

First, the Glads….  Sunday we visited a local farm just over the border in West Suffield, CT called Pleasant Valley Glad’s and Dahlia’s. A…

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Show Report -A Cactus and Succulent Show

September 19, 2010

 JUST A DOG SHOW WILL HAVE A DOG THAT SEEMS TO WIN ACROSS THE COUNTRY, SO IT IS WITH SOME PLANTS. THIS IMPRESSIVE SPECIMEN…

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My New Bulb Rules- 10 Ways to Justify A Frivolous Fritilaria

September 19, 2010

Colchicum ‘Disaraeli’ in my garden this morning. Colchicum ‘Waterlily’ at Tower Hill Botanic Garden It’s already Colchicum season, which always arrives faster than I expect….

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Cape Fuchsia’s Never Stop

September 14, 2010

Two varieties of Phygelius capensis in my African border.  Phygelius capensis, or Cape Fuchsia ( not really a Fuchsia), provides long lasting color in…

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My own private Wisley

September 14, 2010

 I always admire the raised sand beds at Wisley, the Royal Horticultural Society garden in the UK. So when I built my dream greenhouse,…

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