My Virtual Maryland Garden

My caretaker responsibilities limit the time I get for gardening to the point where, if I'm lucky, I see my garden once or twice a ...

  I had an early morning appointment which fell through, and so I found myself at home with the full day before me. What a beauti...

Why has it taken so long for Pleione to catch on with the gardening public? They are relatively inexpensive as orchids go, they ar...

Now that I'm housebound taking care of mom, when I run out of things I have to improvise. The other day I had a real hunger for pot...

    Hybridizer Arthur Percy   Saunders did more than anyone else to broaden the genetic base of garden peonies. He systemat...

Double -flowered hyacinths, those where the normal six perianth segments are multiplied, are probably as old in western gardens as t...

When we think of bulbs for the garden, the plants we have in mind are almost all monocots. In that respect, this plant shown above is an...

This is the other yellow-flowered winter aconite which is sometimes, rarely, seen in local gardens. It blooms much later than the usual ...

Late last October there was a post about a garter snake which appeared on the winter jasmine at the front door. You can see that here: ...

It may be true that there is no accounting for people’s tastes, but you can’t help but wonder. This is the time of year when the tidy ya...

    An early February thread on the Pacific Bulb Society discussion group touched briefly on aquatic crinum. At first ...

For most of you, the vegetation shown above will probably be unfamiliar. I’ve known about it all my adult life from reading, but until ...

In the image above are two branches taken from the same plant of Osmanthus × fortunei . The branch in the foreground, with spiny, holly...

Iris lazica is blooming freely now, and the big blue flowers are certainly welcome at this time of year. It's very similar to, and ...

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 ...