My Virtual Maryland Garden

What a sweet, both literally and figuratively, little violet. The small fragrant flowers come on long stems and have a perky quality which I...

Here's a view of one of my community garden plots taken a few days ago. The two rows of densely planted sprouts in the center of the ima...

This is Helonias bullata , sometimes called swamp pink. It's native to Maryland, and it takes well to local conditions. It's been he...

That's the periwinkle Vinca minor in the image above. There are some houses on the other side of the creek with steep front yards, a...

The temperature reached 80 degrees F this afternoon - and it's been very dry. The remaining crocuses will probably go in the rain. W...

The first wave of color to wash over the garden each year - the wave of snowdrops, little bulb irises, crocuses and a few precocious shrub...

Claytonia virginica , familiarly called spring beauty, is such a common plant here that whole hillsides where it grows are covered with its ...

I had something to do at the back of the garden yesterday, and as I rushed from the house I was stopped in my tracks by an intense fragranc...

The week before last I took a look at the Welwitschia and got a nasty shock: it seemed to be dead. I've had this plant for fifteen year...

The topic of Tulipa praecox came up today on the PBS forum. Here's a scanned slide from May of 1974. It's not the best image, but i...

I bought a slide scanner yesterday, and above you can see the first slide I scanned. As I go through my slide collection and scan them, I’l...

As  expected, March came in as a lamb: daytime temperatures today were well over seventy degrees F.  I went down to the ponds early this m...

It's about 7 P.M. February 29, 2012. I've just come back from the local wetland site of the peeper ponds. It's raining and the t...

Here is a selection of some of the readily available crocuses sold as "snow crocuses", "chrysanthus hybrid crocuses" or...

I don't have an image or a sound recording for this, but one of the big excitements of the season is taking place daily now: when I walk...

Above you see a series of netted (reticulate) irises which gives an idea of what is readily available among these plants. Throughout my li...

Lady Beatrix Stanley and Mr. Edward Augustus Bowles visited today. They left their floral calling cards: an iris and a snowdrop from each. ...

This one is for those of you who are experiencing a really bad winter. Click on the link below to see a brief YouTube video I put together l...

The irises shown here, blooming today in the open, are typical examples of the netted irises or, as they are more commonly called, reticulat...

Tommies are in full bloom this week. These are Crocus tommasinianus , in many respects the best crocus for our gardens. Buying to...