Plants

Can You Identify This Plant?

I found this image over on  Little Yard.  But the site is in Japanese….and google translate isn’t a help.  I would love to know what it is…it makes a lovely container plant don’t you think.  Ideas? -Rochelle image Little Yard

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Mountain Laurel

I am a firm believer in the notion that if something pops up on your personal radar more than once in a week, then it is time to take notice. Call me superstitious but I think there is probably a reason that someone or something is trying to get your attention. Case in point, just [...]

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A Wolf in Lupine’s Clothing

We have been taking our 18 month old Belgian shepherd, Leah, to obedience training for a little over a month now. This is the second time that we have taken her. We took her as a puppy when we lived in Pennsylvania. The problem is that we did not keep up with her training after [...]

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Garden Party

Despite the rain, I am busy readying my home and garden to welcome friends and family for a rocking garden/ barn party this evening. It is my birthday next week, so we are celebrating.  Are you hosting any garden parties this summer?  I wrote over on Apartment Therapy earlier this week about tips to help [...]

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Shredded Umbrella Plant

In the list of “top plants that have been around for too long to not be popular,” Syneilesis aconitifolia or “shredded umbrella plant” should be near the top. I first came across Syneilesis in 1998 growing extremely well in Raleigh, North Carolina. I saw it again in 2000 in Pennsylvania growing like gang-busters. Now that [...]

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Too Much Fun to Be Working

Last week we completed a pretty big renovation of our Rose and Perennial Garden at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens. The renovations were so large that we may now have to call it the Perennial and Rose Garden plus a lot of other really cool plants. Our roses never performed admirably (where do they without tons [...]

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Aralia cordata ‘Sun King’

Some people are suckers for variegated foliage but not me. I can easily pass up a one of a kind variegated pine or magnolia. Show me a chartreuse leaved plant though and you have my attention. My affection for chartreuse first started with Salvia ‘Golden Delicious’ and then ‘Wasabi’ coleus but now I am enamored [...]

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