Frances Williams was a landscape architect who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She discovered a promising and unusual variegated hosta in 1936 in Bristol, Connecticut.
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Finally, I took a good photograph of blue false indigo by taking a picture of a bee for my children.
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Most if not all of the people denying climate change exists really don’t know, yet they plant the yellow flag and oil refineries for us all.
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Georgia rockcress is rare and endangered, with less than an estimated 5,000 plants in existence. The known plants are spread among 28 surveyed sites, nine…
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Wild bergamot, Monarda fistulosa, is an ecologically important native perennial. Native to large swaths of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, wild bergamot has soft lavender…
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Before covering butterfly weed, Asclepias tuberosa, I pass on the best butterfly weed tip I know: it emerges late in spring. It is by far…
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Verbena bonariensis, tall verbena, is a long-flowering perennial native to South America. It has become a favorite of North American summer gardens with its tall,…
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Goldenseal, Hydrastis canadensis, is a native perennial under duress due to loss of habitat and illegal harvesting. I’ve appreciated the colony of goldenseal photographed herein…
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Himalayan cobra lily, Arisaema consanguineum, is mysterious, brooding, lovely. It’s tall, Himalayan cobra lily, sending up leaf stalks up to six feet tall they say. I’ve only…
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I didn’t steal any of the Euphorbia, but the Mariana ferns over at the Institute of Ecology were in constant danger of being purloined.
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Rattlesnake master (Eryngium yuccifolium) is a native perennial with the coolest name in gardening. As the name implies, rattlesnake master is a tough customer, at…
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