Plant Profiles Archives - Growing With Plants

DISPLAYING A COLLECTION OF VARIOUS FUCHSIAS

August 13, 2014

This summer I have been assembling and training a collection of about 25 upright fuchsia selections, some historical, others just curious, which I am…

Oh Nerine, you move my soul.

October 18, 2010

THE PALE PINK NERINE SARNIENSIS ‘ HANLEY CASTLE’ ON THE RIGHT. Nerine sarniensis are in peak bloom this weekend in my greenhouse, so I…

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…

A hardy gloxinia -Sinningia tubiflora

July 13, 2010

I think I have finally mastered growing Sinningia tubiflora, one of the many new ‘hardier’ gesneriads, those plants in the African Violet family, which…

Barnhaven Primroses – A Blooming Legacy

April 19, 2010

I picked a selection of my Barnhaven Polyanthus Primroses and arranged them in a homage to a 1950’s American Primrose Society Quarterly cover that…

The Butterfly Pelargonium

April 13, 2010

Pelargonium papilionaceum This rare Pelargonium ( Greenhouse Geranium ) also known as the ‘Butterfly Pelargonium is a hard t o find, yet easy to…

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…

Bane Berry and Spikenhard – Harry Potterness in the Backyard

September 1, 2009

Actaea pachypoda, or Dolls Eyes, reminds us all that Halloween is not far away. As fall sweeps in with 45 degree F temps last…

A Rare Event – A Nerine falcata Blooms

August 24, 2009

There are a few bulbs in my collection, that I lug back and forth from the greenhouse, each year, as they slowly mature. Many…

New Clivia Types

April 9, 2009