My Virtual Maryland Garden

Tall bearded irises May 2016 The sensory overload in my gardens now is almost overwhelming! The sense of exuberance provided by the...

Frizzle Sizzle pansies  This year of all years I'm glad there are pansies in the garden. They are the most cheerful thing in the...

Lychnis viscaria  "splendens 'Feuer' "  This handsome old-fashioned flower is largely neglected in our gardens now....

Iris iberica elegantissima  A few days before Iris kirkwoodiae  bloomed,  Iris iberica elegantissima  bloomed. How's that for an em...

Iris kirkwoodiae  Iris kirkwoodiae  Iris kirkwoodiae  In March 2012 I posted about one of the great gardening exper...

Zinnia 'Sombrero' from seed purchased in 1996! I acquire a lot of seeds, and most of them end up in the refrigerator. The see...

"Like a pansy in the velvet of its medium scale..." is the way early twentieth-century soprano Geraldine Farrar described the...

Pansy Frizzle Sizzle Yellow/Blue Swirl Pansies which combine blue/purple with yellow/bronze are my favorites - they remind me of some ...

Lilium 'Muscadet' This one is here because of the story behind it. The bulbs were purchased in the fall of 2014 and then put i...

Narcissus 'Topolino' This one has grown on me over the years, and now it's a firm favorite. When the flowers are freshly ...

Daffodils greet both spring and visitors! A group of daffodils in a Chinese pen holder greet visitors at our front door this week. 

Anti-vine hysteria wins again  Why do people do this? Who's teaching people that it's OK to do this? Will they vote for Trump...

Biscuit gets her main meal of the day at about 1:30 P.M. She spends most of the morning keeping her eye on me or snoozing nearby if I'm...

Crocus tommasinianus  "amethyst and pewter'  The crocuses in the image above are Crocus tommasinianus  in one of its many for...

Colchicum hungaricum  'Valentine' If you are new to this group of plants, you probably associate the name colchicum with plants...

Geese, probably Canada geese, on their way northward.  One of the really thrilling sounds of the season is that of geese on the move....

Rana sylvatica , the wood frog, started to call this evening from the garden pond. Last year I made recordings of the calling, and I'll...

On February 2 of this year, the heavy snow had started to pull back a bit and under shrubs and near walls bare spots appeared. When I l...

The suburban ornithoscopist Under the title given above I’ll be posting some of the interesting, brief natural history videos Wa...

cipolline , not cippolini cipolline , not cippolini For years these little flat onions have been marketed as "cipollini...