Hip Hip Hooray for Rose Hips Unknown 5:33 AM Add Comment fall gardens, GARDEN, gardening tips, great plants, horticulture tips Edit Hip Hip Hooray for Rose Hips rose hips photo by Jan Johnsen Allow your roses to form hips. Did you know that, like many plants ... Read More
Cottage Garden Primer Unknown 8:44 AM Add Comment design tips, flowers, garden photos, great plants, my projects, plants Edit Cottage Garden - Jan Johnsen I once worked with a lovely client ( now a dear friend!) who wanted a cottage-style flower garden. Now ther... Read More
'Purple Smoke' - The best Baptisia Unknown 5:42 AM Add Comment blue, great plants, native plants Edit This year I am planting Baptisia 'Purple Smoke'. A deer resistant, native, drought tolerant, purple, long lived perennial! Wow! P... Read More
PURSLANE - The Incredible, Edible 'Weed' Unknown 5:11 AM Add Comment fun ideas, garden and plant history, great plants, horticulture tips, kids gardens, musings, vegetable gardens Edit What was one of Mahatma Gandhi's favorite foods? What did Henry Thoreau eat while residing at Walden Pond? PURSLANE . Purslane, long c... Read More
Butterfly Gardens - Open House for Butterflies Unknown 4:58 AM Add Comment butterflies, flowers, garden tips, great plants Edit Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon yo... Read More
Fothergilla- A Deer Resistant, 3-Season Stunner Unknown 5:07 AM Add Comment deer resistant, fall gardens, great plants Edit Fothergilla in bloom - photo by Laura McKillop "Fothergillas, ask so little from gardeners, yet give so much; all friends should exhi... Read More
Dandelion Love - Early Spring Greens Unknown 5:10 AM Add Comment dand, flowers, garden and plant history, great plants, sustainable Edit The dreaded Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) , for which we spend tremendous amounts of weed killer money to eradicate, has been prized ove... Read More