Fall Planting
Just for the record, here’s my schedule of fall planting with comments. Understand this is for a USDA zone 4 – Canadian Zone 5-ish and your timing may vary and your experience may as well. This is a rule of thumb worked out in the nursery to increase survival rates over many years and way [...]
Plant Branding Help Wanted
Let me make a few rather obvious points. 1) I’m a guy. 2) I’m a plants-guy. So when I watched several otherwise balanced garden writers go all doe-eyed and weak-kneed about a plant brand that’s unrolling right now, I have to tell you I didn’t get it. In fact, I pretty much ignored it until [...]
Hedychium ‘Tahitian Flame’
I have this variegated-leaf Ginger in a pot on my front porch but alas, it doesn’t have this bloom on it. In fact, I’ve never been able to get this tender plant to bloom. I go away for the winter and this plant languishes in my basement where it is simply too cold for it. [...]
Paeonia mlokosewitschii
Otherwise known as Molly-the-Witch, this delightful seed pod is just another reason to grow this plant. Unfortunately, this isn’t in my own garden but it is on my “lust list”. For the record, the blue seeds are fertile and the red are not but the contrast between them is wonderful.
Plant Review: Euphorbia ‘Jessie’
I’ve just planted a Euphorbia ‘Jessie’ that I got from Barry Glick at Sunshine Farms and Nursery. ‘Jessie’ is a cross between the tender E. griffithii – a really tall species and E. polychroma (epithymoides) only about 18″ tall but very hardy and self-sows with abandon to earn a spot on my thug-list. Barry assures [...]
Garden Writer Conference Awards
This post has taken the better part of a week to write as I struggle to find “up” amidst a whopping head cold I picked up at the conference. The annual conference where we put 600 garden writers together into one hotel, and see what emerges, is always a good time. Newcomers invariably tell us [...]
How to Grow a Water Lily
Here’s a quick video on the most important things about growing a water lily.
