I remember seeing variegated Solomon’s seal, Polygonatum odoratum Variegatum, massed for the first time. It seemed to me to be the epitome of a master gardener’s palette. Solomon’s…
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Excellent plants for gardening beginners (and experts).
Rare in my garden are annuals, their uniform sameness unrelenting through summer. The common poppy is an exception I am happily willing to make.
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Before there were Knock Out roses, there was Carefree Beauty, an aptly named garden rose as there ever was. Truly beautiful clear pink fully double…
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Pure white flowers are a premium in the garden. Long-flowering, easy to grow perennials are especially beloved by me, as are greyhounds btw. White columbine…
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Coreopsis auriculata Nana has the common name ‘ear-leaved tickseed’, but I sometimes refer to it as Coreopsis Nana and leave it at that. What I…
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Virginia spiderwort, Tradescantia virginiana, is a perennial native to the deciduous forests of the eastern United States. It is easy to grow. Tradescantia is not overly…
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Etoile de Lyon is a tea rose of exquisite color, a large and healthy rose whose light golden blooms come in a series of flushes…
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Familiar to brewmasters, hops is a bine, not a vine. The difference is that vines use tendrils and suckers to climb or attach, while bines…
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One of the all time greats for the shade garden (can tolerate sun with good moisture), Aquilegia canadensis (American columbine, a.k.a. wild columbine, Canadian columbine, Eastern red columbine) appears in spring
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‘The Fairy’ rose is grown in many gardens eighty years after its introduction and with good reason. ‘The Fairy’ is a tough, gorgeous garden rose…
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Introduced in 1995, and often sold to gardeners as an annual, black-eyed Susan ‘Indian Summer’ is a short-lived perennial. Short-lived perennial is the catch-all term…
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