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...

This is not a wild phlox, but it is not a typical whimpy cultivar either; it resists powdery mildew and all the cultivars tried in this...

While woodlands are alive with spring flowers, there isn't much flowering going on in the forest understory during the summer.  The re...

A few blogs ago a sudden and violent thunderstorm devastated quite a number of the hundreds of "magic lilies" ( Lycoris squamigera...

Friday was one of those days when you set out to do too many things, and for reasons too difficult to explain, not to mention what some woul...