I know I'm posting quite a bit here lately, but there's just so much going on in the garden this time of year, you know? Can't help myself ( Read more... )

One of my most anticipated spring arrivals are bleeding hearts.  But over the last few years I have witnessed them dying off.  It's always the same: the first three years or so they do great - plenty of flowers atop a full, bushy plant that lasts until early July.  But then the year after that a more stunted version of the plant surfaces.  Nothing ( Read more... )

Here's a plant probably not seen too often. I planted this lungwort 5 years ago in a shady flower bed (zone 5b) and it has been thriving, even though come summertime it flattens out and looks wilted even if I water it every day. Odd how some things work and some don't - I've been trying to grow astilbes not two feet away and they are always ( Read more... )

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BUTTRICK S 1954 40" M DOR DIP yellow self


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ROSE 1988 22" M 5" DOR DIP slate lav w magenta, purple mr w ez


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LENINGTON G 1978 30" M 5.75" SEV DIP lt cr flushed pink gr cr thr


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SHOOTER E 2000 40" ML re 5.5" DOR DIP red purple with blue lavender warm with magenta, frag


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BARTH N 1993 29" ML 6.5" DOR TET rose self, yell thr

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LACHMAN 1993 26" EM 4.5" DOR DIP lav to cream blue lav ez gr thr


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