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.

Remembering ‘The Julia Child of Horticulture’, Thalassa Cruso

December 26, 2009

Opening title card for PBS’s 1960’s gardening program “Making Things Grow” by Thalassa Cruso Now that the pace and energy of Christmas and the…

Christmas Eve, and all is quiet, and well

December 24, 2009

Vintage Nineteenth C. Holiday card showing CamelliasMy plant window over the kitchen sink in Holiday garb, this year, all white and green. Cyclamen, Stock,…

Why Arrow Gas Company Sucks More Than Phytophera infestans

December 21, 2009

Anyone who keeps a greenhouse in a cold climate knows the risks of power failures or malfunctioning heaters. On this weekend before Christmas, I…

Dreaming of a White Christmas

December 14, 2009

…and, peace, in the Greenhouse ( finally!), as the new furnace was hung and installed. Now, a nice, quite hum as it ignites, and…

First measurable snow, time to prune!

December 7, 2009

I keep a number of large topiaried shrubs in the collection, mainly for decorative use, but as you can see here, they have planting…

Thanksgiving Weekend Flowers

November 28, 2009

Fergus sleeps off a turkey hangover, behind the shaving brush blossoms of a large pot of Haemanthus albiflos.The South African evergreen geophyte, Haemanthus albiflos…

Plant Society Magazine – Fall/Winter published.

November 21, 2009

OK, finally, I got this one out! My little weekend project that I call Plant Society Magazine, is now available only here at HP’s…

A new furnace, arrives, and just in time.

November 15, 2009

When one keeps a temperate glass house full of tender plants in New England, the greatest worry is heat. Within a month, the temperatures…

Autumn Narcissus begin to bloom

November 15, 2009

The tiny flower of Narcissus serotinus, no wider than a half an inch, has a scent that rivals it’s relative, the Paperwhite Narcissus. Still,…

Orchidishness

November 6, 2009

Some recent images from last week, in the greenhouse. ‘Tis orchid season. Autumn may mean fall leaves, but this time of transition, not unlike…