Plant Profile: Clary (Salvia sclarea)
Karen Clary is a biennial or short lived perennial native to southern Europe and the Mediterranean region but has been introduced to a variety of locations around the world and naturalized…
Butterflies in the Garden and How to Attract Them: Morning Cloak (Nymphalis antiopa)
Morning cloaks can be found in almost all of the Northern Hemisphere south to northern South America . Exceptions are the high Arctic, and sub tropical and desert regions. They…
Plant Profile: Silver Dollar Gum (Eucalyptus polyanthemos)
Also called Australian beech and red box, this small to medium evergreen tree is native to southeastern Australia and is a member of the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, that also includes…
Plant Combination: Hot Pink Vinca (Catharanthus roseus) and Verbena ‘Homestead Purple’
Vivid combinations are not to everyone’s taste but sometimes jewels tones can be eye catching and pleasing. Here, vivid pink vinca is combines with electric blue verberna ‘Homestead Purple’. The…
Plant Profile: Rose The McCartney Rose
Long , narrow, rosy pink buds open to large cup-shaped flowers that have broad pink petals with a deep pink reverse, and loosely scalloped edges. The flowers appear singly or…
Plant Profile: European Pennyroyal (Menta pulegium)
Native to Europe, North Afrcia, and the Middle East, this herbaceous perennial is also known as pennyrile, hillwort, brotherwort, run-by-the-ground, lurk-in-the-ditch, pudding grass, and pulegium. It is a member of…
Old Time Recipes for Home Made Wines: Orange Wine
According to Wikipedia, orange wine is a type of wine made from white wine grapes which are fermented with their skins. Since the skins contain color pigment, phenols, and tannins…
Plant Profile: Smooth Sumac (Rhus glabra)
Also known as white sumac, upland sumac, and scarlet sumac, this suckering, deciduous shrub is a member of the cashew family, Anacardiaceae, that also includes smoke tree, mango, and poison…
Gardens in Art: Medieval Landscape from De proprietatibus rerum
This watercolored illustration from the 13th century work De proprietatibus rerum (On the Properties of Things) shows some of the plants that grew during the Middle Ages in Europe. De…
Plant Profile: Threeleaf Sumac (Rhus trilobata)
Native to the grasslands, shrubland, deserts, and forests of Western US from Washington to California, east to the Dakotas and Texas, this suckering deciduous shrub is known by many names…