The Phytophactor

 Here is another harbinger of spring.  The Phactors have many dozens of bulbs in our gardens, many of them varieties of Narcissus, and most ...

  Once you get  a bed of Scilla siberica   established you will basically have it forever.  Someone planted some of these little bulbs some...

OK in an effort to get a day/date disconnect resolved, TPP thought why not do something unusual like do a FFF on an actual Friday.  People w...

It has been a pretty good year for Magnolias; no late frosts and plenty of rain, almost too much.  When the gardens finally get to June, t...

Our gardens look pretty good right now. Lots of flowering shrubs, lots of wild flowers.  And sometimes little things tend to get overlook...

This is a totally up to date posting because bloodroot is flowering presently in our woodland gardens, a bit late as it usually flowers in...

The weather is not exactly warm, but all things being relative, it's a cool, sunny day.  Just the right sort of weather for early s...

Here and there around our gardens are little clumps of early spring flowers, the ones that pop up and bloom anytime the temperature gets ...

The local fall weather was pretty mild and so our tropical houseplants stayed outside a bit later into the season than in the past.  And ...

TPP has been in South Florida for one more look around before the area submerges.  Both McKee (Vero Beach) and Fairchild (Coral Gables...

This long cold spring had better make a turn for the better soon.  TPP estimates that flowering dates are now delayed nearly two weeks fr...

One of the ways to get lots of plants in your yard is to find little places to stick in little plants.  This particular one has been diffi...

Today's FFF is a great little plant (and here too), but really wish the taxonomists would leave the names alone, of course TPP can ne...

Three years ago TPP got this Loebner's magnolia ( Magnolia x loebneri ) 'Leonard Messel' from a big-box end of season sale fo...

They are just so darned cute!  Just like the kittens of the spring gardens.  This particular daffodil or narcissus is only about 5-6"...

OK, TPP admits to being a bit jaded about tropical ornamentals. So when you encounter something new especially it it's a bit different, ...

It's a gray day in late January, and for other reasons TPP is feeling a bit depressed. However, nothing cheers us up as much as fl...

Spent an hour this morning cleaning off a large book shelf, a well built book shelf, ca. 1976.  Deciding what to discard, keep, and give awa...

Fruit are flowers at the stage of seed dispersal, so FFF is going to get stretched a bit. At no previous time have you had access to more pr...

OK it's a bright shiny new year 2017, so TPP wants to start out on the right note with a FFF posting that is only 2 days late.  For long...