The Phytophactor

One of the larger and gaudier flowers that you can easily raise is the rose mallow ( Hibiscus mosacheutos ).  Like all related flowers the l...

S pring flowering peters out through June until summer flowering plants sort of take over, but it isn't quite the same.  Lots of prairie...

Most sources indicate that S tokesia is a type of aster, all this means is that all of the flowers have a bilaterally symmetrical corolla, ...

What a great time to be a gardener, it gives us something to do that is pretty low risk for us senior citizens.  Our gardens need water, lot...

OK This is a little bit weird.  TPP is never a day early with a FFF.  Mrs. Phactor pointed out that yellow flowers with lots of stamens is a...

Summer is upon us, and so is a mild drought.  Our city is raising water rates, so it will be getting more expensive to keep gardens watered....

This is a native plant to Lincolnland and it grows naturally fairly close by around the Havana sand priaries to the SW of us.  This plant is...

TPP was poking around in the shady recesses of our gardens and there under a huge burr oak and a bottle brush buckeye (that is in heavy shad...

TPP has missed Friday again, but this was ready and the image is from last Friday.  You plant natives because generally they are tough, but ...

Well, it is almost the end of May and TPP forgot some of the herbaceous peonies still to flower.  This particular peony is quite spectacular...