Plants we love, hate, or just have something to say about.
I’ve been trying to get my head round Eupatoriums, which I see (and ignore) have become Eutrochium. Well, some of them have. Some have become something else. Some might be [...]
“You must visit my friend Mary; she's a plantswoman.” I'm a fairly placid sort of chap really. I do what I do and I'm largely happy for the world around [...]
I love what this garden represents, what it's doing, and all it will do. Good people working the soil, growing healthy food, feeding the pollinators, meeting each other, and playing. Yes, playing.
While these hostas are blooming in the darker spaces, the phlox are rocking the sun. And have been for seemingly months.
Nandina 'Burgundy Wine' along the front of my house - in January. Other evergreens are Osmanthus 'Goshiki' and Carex 'Ice Dance'. I recently welcomed visitors to my townhouse [...]
It’s so dry right now in my little part of Rain Shadow, Virginia that even the blades of Japanese stilt grass are curling. When, last night, my husband decided, mid-sip, [...]
Periodically, I go visit my sister in San Jose. Every time I do, I'm fascinated to see so many of the same plants I grow in Cincinnati's wet and [...]
On road trips, often it's the flowers blooming everywhere - by the side of the road, in untended lots, throughout otherwise unoccupied fields - that make the biggest impression, no [...]
I am a bit player in the legacy of a nasturtium dynasty. My mother, Molly Bush, was our matriarch. She sowed annual nasturtium seeds devotionally every Good Friday. This [...]
"Oh, I can't Stop you putting roots in my dreamland My house of stone, your ivy grows And now I'm covered in you" From Ivy by Taylor Swift It’s not [...]
Folks around here have taken to calling it the “Boxwood Winter.” Named for that fabled Dec. 23, 2022 day when we were all waiting for Santa Claus and an artic [...]
Of all the great garden plants of the world surely the rose is the most iconic? The history of roses is intertwined with the history of humanity, and to imagine [...]
