My Virtual Maryland Garden

I have a small rooted cutting of the early twentieth century rose 'Mrs. Aaron Ward' coming along in the garden now. My plant is of ...

The venerable tradition of keeping tabs on what is in bloom in the garden on Christmas Day and New Year's Day is one I enthusiast...

This is the French gray shallot which, as it turns out, is botanically distinct from the shallots of grocery stores ( or at least the g...

Iris unguicularis , the Algerian iris, began to bloom last week; the flower you see in the image above is the second to appear this seas...

Passiflora incarnata was the subject of the second post to this blog back in July 2007. It's been in the garden for decades, and n...

Well, not really: but I fixed some scrambled eggs the other day, and since I was in a mood for something a little different I began to look...

What looks like bittersweet in these photos is actually Euonymus fortune i, once one of the most highly valued plants in our gardens....

Decades ago, when Erythronium 'Pagoda' first began to appear on the commercial bulb lists at reasonable prices, I tried a few ...

Throughout most of North America the name maidenhair fern refers to Adiantum pedatum . I'm sure I'm not the only gardener w...

Gardening has its pleasures of the instant gratification sort (credit cards are generally involved here), and at the other end of...

Ceratostigma griffithii put on a growth spurt this year which surprised me. In the past it formed a sprawling subshrub with branches...

The local woods are primarily a mixture of oak, sycamore, tulip poplar and beech trees; less common here are hickories, m...

Two weeks ago Wayne tried to get me to accompany him on a local hik...

This is the snowdrop described in earlier posts as my Thanksgiving snowdrop. It's early this year, but no less welcome. Snowdrops ...

Because this plant has been in this garden for decades, one might think I knew to expect its flowering every year. But that's not th...

From a distance this one looks like one of those prickly desert plants you don't want to bump into. It looks a lot like its relative...

A bit after 10 P.M. last night I took Biscuit out for some fresh air. On returning, as I was coming up the front steps, a familiar but...

Here are three crocuses blooming here today; shown here are, top to bottom, Crocus kotschyanus "my acuminate form",...