My Virtual Maryland Garden

In addition to bulbs, the cold frame houses a variety of other plants. Most of these are not suited to life in the open garden, and each rep...

Last week I attended a talk in which Lindie Wilson, who came to own Elizabeth Lawrence’s last home in Charlotte, North Carolina, told us abo...

Fritillaria stenanthera is blooming today in one of the unprotected cold frames. It’s the first of the frits to bloom this year. Others abo...

Daffodils have yet to make an appearance in the open garden, but in the protected cold frame several of the tiny white-flowered hoop pettico...

The Algerian iris, Iris unguicularis , is being very good to me this year. It’s been in bloom off and on since November. I’m enjoying it wh...

I’ve spent most of this week tackling various clean-up jobs in the garden. The weather has been perfect for working outside. It always amaze...

The presence of this plant in my garden is due to the generosity of a friend. It’s a new arrival here; last fall, Alice handed me a tangled ...

We’re entering the part of the year that I think of as sprout season. The ground is now erupting here and there with little green points. So...

This blog in effect duplicates a posting I made today to the PBS (that's Pacific Bulb Society forum). Another member of the forum had po...

I think I’ ve loved boxwood all my life. At an early age I became aware of the special status it has among gardeners. I was not “to the man...

The new Heronswood catalog arrived the other day, and I noticed that they are now offering nicely spotted Agave virginica . I’ ve collecte...

This is the time of year when I begin to have vivid daydreams about morning glories, nasturtiums and poppies. Today I collected seed of the ...

I'm beginning to wonder if I need an eye exam. This evening I had some time to kill, so I ducked into the local Borders book store and w...

For the last several years our house has been selected by brown marmorated stinkbugs, Halyomorpha halys , as an ideal wintering place. The...

Crocus ochroleucus Crocus pallasii Dryopteris sieboldii Polystichum polyblepharum Helleborus cf. torquatus Arum italicum Arum italicum The...

I've never advanced much beyond the commoner birds in terms of identifying them by sound, and today the garden gave me a real workout. I...

The tradition of making lists of plants blooming on Christmas or New Year’s Day is one which has never really caught on in our climate. Wint...

I think I enjoy the pond more at this time of year than any other. By now I’ve gotten used to the lack of lively vegetation and flower inter...

We enjoy lots of light in our small house due to several sets of sliding glass doors. One set of these doors is placed exactly opposite to a...

More YouTube adventures: last night I stumbled on another incredible voice from the past. This time it isn’t an opera singer, but the voice ...