Using black and brown in a garden

Sometimes, I feel bad about filtering the experience of being in a garden through a camera lens. Am I like one of those people who walk around seeing the whole world through the screen of their iPads? But the magic of photography can turn a frantic, 45-minute garden visit into hours of contemplation at home – letting me zoom in, identify hidden treasures, and […]

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‘Green Spice’ is a fabulous Heuchera

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St. Augustine grass for containers

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My ‘Wasabi’ coleus did a little too well

Take a look at that bright green or chartreuse shrub in my front garden above. It isn’t a shrub. It was (once) a single pot of ‘Wasabi’ coleus that I bought from Plant World this spring for my large container. A ‘Wasabi’ intent on taking over the world. Now, ‘Wasabi’ is an amazingly tough and beautiful […]

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Great, great-big ‘Gryphon’ begonia

My photo is not exactly tack-sharp, but you get the idea. Begonia hybrid ‘Gryphon’ is a fabulous foliage plant Thank you to Proven Winners for introducing me to the fabulous ‘Gryphon’ begonia, which they sent me to trial in 2014. It looks like Proven Winners has since applied its own trademarked brand name ‘Pegasus’ to […]

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Hakone grass: Fall in love with foliage

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Yellow leaves on my hydrangea

Green veins, yellow between them – a symptom of chlorosis It was on a lot of hydrangeas I saw around town this year – yellowing leaves, with the classic green veins that signal chlorosis or lack of chlorophyll. Unsure why this happened more often in 2014, but when it did on my own Hydrangea ‘Quickfire’ […]

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Wordless Wednesday: A crush on every leaf

If you notice a white-haired gal walking down the street with a bouquet of leaves… that’s me. Leaves, from large to small online pharmacy buy clindamycin with best prices today in the USA : tulip tree (Liriodendron), Freeman maple (Acer x freema online pharmacy buy phenergan with best prices today in the USA nii), and […]

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Dotty for Podophyllum ‘Spotty Dotty’

Endearingl online pharmacy buy amoxil with best prices today in the USA y polka-dotted and charmingly shaped, the plate-sized leaves of Podophyllum ‘Spotty Dotty’ Another reason to thank Marie the Gardenbug: she introduced me to this cool plant, known only to me by name before. It’s an exotic hybrid cousin of our native may-apple called […]

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Go, go Begonia ‘Escargot’

Look at that face, just look at it! Who could resist Rex begonia (Begonia rex-cultorum) ‘Escargot’? Not me, it seems. online pharmacy buy clenbuterol with best prices today in the USA Despite her better judgement, Helen the House Plant Killer has become the owner of a slightly fussy Rex begonia ‘Escargot’. The buy amoxil online […]

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Magnolia leaves: roll ’em, roll ’em, roll ’em

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The pure pow of green-on-green

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