Growing With Plants

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.

Curating Annuals-Some odd, but stylish choices

February 8, 2010

There isn’t much that I don’t grow, but I always make room for annual flowers. I suppose it’s partly because they are some of…

TIme to vote – on the color of my blog!

February 7, 2010

Design is very important to me, so I take comments about my site design very seriously. I accept that as a designer, one cannot…

Hello, iPad! Goodbye Print On Paper

February 5, 2010

Apple’s new iPad will change everything for us gardeners who are missing good gardening books and journals.It’s here, well almost, and I am thrilled….

Potting up Geranium maderense,and more

February 1, 2010

The massive, and rarely seen Geranium maderense, which I had grown from seed last spring, is starting to mature. I am hoping that this…

A weed by any other name, Primula malacoides

February 1, 2010

In the fine Timber Press book PRIMULAS, the monster monograph on the genus primula by John Richards, one can discover that the lovely florist…

Who Will Bail Out This Seed Bank? Not me

January 27, 2010

If you thought politics was limited to the 41st Senate seat, a new survivalist movement driven by conspiracy theorists and teaparty extremists are even…

Mastering Regal Geraniums

January 25, 2010

A shot of some Pelargoniums from the front sand bed in the greenhouse from last May. These we’re still young, but now the plants…

Gladiolus priorii, and other Winter Blooming Species

January 24, 2010

We all are familiar with the common Gladiolus, an all too common florist flower often seen in funeral sprays, or in summer garden shows…

How to make a Euryops pectinatus Standard

January 22, 2010

Last Saturdays fine weather kept me in the greenhouse for most of the day, and it wasn’t difficult to find chores to be done,…

A season of it’s own

January 17, 2010

A white Rosemary which has grown too large as a topiary, blooms. This is acting now as a stock plant, and now has many…