Book Review: Contemporary Designers Own Gardens
Karen Have you ever wondered what the garden of a famous garden designer’s garden looks like? Is it like the commissioned ones? Totally different? Or somewhere in between? Barbara Baker’s book,…
Plant Profile: Orange Golfball Tree (Buddleja globosa)
Endemic to forests in Chile and Argentina, this semi-evergreen, woody shrub is more hardy than other Buddlejas and losses its leaves only in the coldest winters. The dark green leaves…
Indian Inspired Flower Arrangement for Fall
While preparing for and Indian style dinner party I wandered in the garden looking for flowers and saw my marigold plants covered with flowers. I remember well the beautiful floral…
Plant Profile: Golden Angel’s Trumpet (Brugmansia aurea)
Native to central Columbia and Ecuador, where it grows on the slopes of the Andes, is an evergreen shrub or small tree. It is considered extinct in the wild but…
Book Review: Clondeglass: Creating a Garden Paradise
Dermont O’Neil, journalist, TV and radio personality, and gardener, takes the reader with him as he realizes his dream. As a child he had seen a walled garden that inspired…
Weeds and Their Control: Honeyvine Milkweed (Cynanchum laeve/ Ampelamus albidus)
Known by many common names including bluevine, climbing milkweed, sandvine,and smooth swallow-wort, this perennial twining vine is native to central and eastern US where it grows in disturbed areas such…
Plant Profile: Monroe’s Ragwort (Brachyglottis monroi)
Native to New Zealand and Tasmania, this evergreen shrub forms a compact dome that tolerates the dry windy conditions of its natural maritime habitat on cliffs. The oblong leaves are…
Hybrid Hulthemia Roses
For over forty years rose breeders have been intrigued by the possibility of producing a repeat-blooming rose with a red blotch in the center. The inspiration for this endeavor is…
Plant Profile: Queen’s Tear (Billbergia nutans)
Also known as friendship plant, this evergreen tender perennial is a bromeliad native of Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay where it grows as an epiphyte in low trees and as…
Book Review: Claude Monets Gardens at Giverny
Thoughts of Monet’s garden at Giverny brings up images of a Japanese bridge and water lilies. Do you envision the water lilies and bridge in the spring? In the winter,…