My Virtual Maryland Garden

. The top image above is the cover page of the magazine Home & Garden from April of 1914. That's two years and several months sho...

 No, those are not orange radishes. The little orange globes you see above are the old carrot variety 'Parisian', sometimes calle...

I first became aware of Frank Kameny in the late 1950s when his arrest on sodomy charges made the news. I was about 14 at that time, and al...

Here’s a view of what’s happening in the back garden right now. The image is out of focus ( I tried several times but could not get the Ha...

This little charmer is a 1930s anticipation of the modern ‘Knock Out’ roses. And like that more modern group it has almost all of the qua...

Yikes! I have not made a blog posting in almost a month.What's going on? The answer is that my other garden, my community garden plot,...

While working in the garden the other day I spotted this little gem. It brought to mind some metal smith working in molten silver and gold: ...

  Although I’ve known about this plant – or thought I knew about this plant – for a long time, it’s blooming in my garden this year for t...

Gardeners have long cherished bulbs which bloom in the fall, and when those bulbs are of sorts which typically bloom in late winter or spri...

 This is the plant widely distributed under the name Tricyrtis macrantha ssp. macranthopsis . It's been in this big pot for two years...

The plant shown above is currently making the rounds under the name Kalimeris pinnatifida , although when it was introduced it was better ...

While walking Biscuit the other night one of my neighbors called me over and handed me a book which she said she thought I would enjoy. She...

The name × Amarcrinum is used for hybrids between Amaryllis belladonna and various Crinum . What looks like a little x before the name i...

According to the old books, blue flowered Ipomoea tricolor were in cultivation over a century ago,   but those plants were very lat...

La d é coratrice Someone left a box of Pierre Hermé macarons at my door today - someone who knows someone who just fle...

Here and there around the area in local wood verges the white woods aster is blooming freely. Generations of gardeners have known and grown ...

Now fifteen years old, my Welwitschia has not changed much in the last few years. It might come as a surprise for most of you to learn tha...

The name Colchicum agrippinum poses a bit of a name problem.There is no evidence that a sexually reproducing population corresponding to thi...

Two handsome sedums can be seen in the upper image above: the upright Sedum spectabile (or maybe it is one of its hybrids) and the flat-gr...

I’m not a daylily person. I don’t travel in daylily circles, don’t attend daylily shows and don’t know by name any of the modern cultivars. ...