Shades of Autumn

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I am admittedly not a big fan of autumn.  I don’t dislike the season itself and in fact, some of my favorite garden plants flower as the days grow shorter, temperatures drop Read more

The Iris By The Back Door

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I’m sure that for each of us there are a host of characters who played important roles in our lives, especially when we were children.  My cast of characters happens Read more

Autumn Reprise

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I sat down at the computer today prepared to blog about Hedychium, or ginger lily, but as I was scrolling through my photos this iris (cultivar ‘Total Recall’) caught my Read more

Into Autumn

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I must admit, autumn is not my favorite season. You see, I don’t really care for winter much, so for me autumn is just sort of the precursor to what Read more

Species Lilies

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I have a lot of friends who are plant hybridizers–good hybridizers–and for the most part, I love their plants. But there is one group of plants where my preference runs Read more

Of Summer Sunflowers

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Being a Kansas boy by birth, one of my favorite of all wildflowers is the sunflower. “Wildflowers?”, you may be asking yourself. Sure enough. Across the hills and plains of Read more

Glorious Gladiolus

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Gladiolus are another of those plants that hold a nostalgic place in my heart. The next door neighbors used to grow rows and rows of them at the far end Read more

Lola

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One of the groups of plants that I have always admired–even lusted after–but have never experimented with much is Kniphofia, the “red hot pokers”. Even as a child, I remember Read more

Hellebore Fever

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Well, March has certainly come roaring in! For those of you who didn’t see it on the news (or experience it personally), parts of Tennessee received nearly a FOOT of Read more