- Easter Flowers2018/03/08
The Madonna lily, Lilium candidum, is potted up and sold all over the United States every spring.
- Wildflower Center2018/03/01
While the weather remains cold outdoors, we can look online for a flower fix. One site that I enjoy is the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.
- Shrubs For Shade2018/02/22
The catalogs have arrived in the mail, so we are all thinking about what to order...
- Millions Of Roses2018/02/15
About 120 million roses are purchased in the U.S. for Valentine’s Day each year.
- Global Flowers2018/02/08
For Valentine’s Day, most of us will buy flowers, and those flowers are already enroute to us from abroad.
- Indestructible Natives2018/02/01
Native plants are well adapted to our growing conditions, and so most of them are easy to grow and need only minimal care once established.
- Pollinator Plants2018/01/25
This year, I’m going to buy more plants that provide food and shelter for pollinators.
- Liatris Is A Monarch Magnet2018/01/18
Liatris attracts lots of those lovely Monarch butterflies into our gardens.
- Native Prairies2018/01/11
Since the 1830s, about 99 percent of American tall grass prairies have been destroyed.
- Ruined And Forsaken Gardens2018/01/04
Poetry by Algernon Charles Swinburne and Oscar Wilde.