My Virtual Maryland Garden

The post title says it all. Here is the full text of David Griffiths' BULBS FROM SEED, published in June, 1934, as Circular No. 311 of...

What a treat in the middle of winter! The flowering of the witch-hazels always catches me by surprise. Yes, I know from long experience ...

We are in the throes - temporarily I hope - of another cold wave.  Recent mornings have brought temperature readings of 1 6⁰ F. Early bl...

I was absentmindedly looking out into the garden about a half hour ago and noticed something brown moving around. At first I thought it mig...

There was a surprise waiting for me out in the garden earlier today. At the front door there are plants of Cyclamen persicum , garden primr...

I fell asleep last night resolving to make popovers for breakfast today. One of the tricks to integrating popovers into the morning ...

The mild winters we've been experiencing in recent years have allowed those of us who play the "what's bl...

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...