Tag: Plant Collections

Pelargonium oblongatum, another precious summer dormant species of pelargonium ( geranium), that blooms while dormant, and without any leaves. I am really starting to…

The fields at Joe Pye Weed’s Garden show off some of the incredible and talented breeding results performed by passionate life-long iris breeders Jan…

Lachenalia, or Cape Hyacinths are like visual candy.  These I  photographed these today a faceplate of a book from the late 1800’s  that I…

I am on a top secret mission to make the African Violet cool again. Wait, was it ever cool? It’s time to rediscover exhibition…

Sunday I spent much of my afternoon making labels for my cyclamen collection. The second from the right is really Cyclamen africanum, and not…

Camellia ‘Kitty’, one of the earliest of the winter camellias to bloom in my greenhouse. On a cold, rainy day, it brightens up a…

Plantago barbata – a toothed slender leaved plantain from Chile, growing in an alpine trough. Plantago major ‘Variegata’. The variegated form of our common…

CURATING A THOUGHTFUL BLEND OF TRULY OLD-FASHIONED ANNUALS TAKES MORE THAN RESEARCH, PATIENCE AND CAREFUL CULTURAL STEWARDSHIP,  IT TAKES A DARN GOOD DOSE OF…

A BROAD-LEAVED WIDE-EYED YELLOW CLIVIA MINIATA SEEDLING FROM OUR JAPAN COLLECTION March is traditionally clivia season, at least in New England where these potted…

Narcissus moscatus is one of the loveliest but increasingly scarce, Narcissus species. Closely related to N. alpestris,  this bulb takes  a few years to…