The Phytophactor

 Not too many plants blossom in the middle of summer.  But the bottle brush buckeye is reliable shade tolerating plant.  Not only that but o...

 The weather pattern seems to have changed to a hotter, wetter July.  At least for now the almost 3" of rain has spelled recovery for m...

 Any way you want to slice it our gardens are suffering through a drought.  Areas that would be called "lawn" are brown and crispy...

 As many of TPP's reader know Magnolia's and nagnoliid flowers are a great favorite.  The collection  includes two species of big-le...

  A very large, very old shrub blooms every year about this time no matter what the winter weather has been like. It's covered by pinkis...

  Here is a woodland spring ephemeral that you probably have not seen before.  It is not a native, but since our gardens are so shady this q...

  OK but first a shout out to Earth Day.  TTP remembers the first Earth Day, but mostly because of all the other struff that was going on, m...

 Sometime every spring right around the first of April, our garden's "lawn" turns blue.  This is caused by several thousand Sc...

 It's the first week of March and a few things do flower this early, but not very many native plants.  One of the cutest is the snow Tri...

 It's the third week of February, the high temperature will be in the 40s and the weather is presently a thunder storm.  Very much unlik...