Almost finished now. A smaller alpine growing area. [img] Almost there, just a short length of path left to cover with gravel and a little...
And by the way I started on September 8th. and only worked on fine days when we did not go gallivanting off. You do not know just how much...
First of all some back ground. [img] Quite a few years back we planted a set of Hornbeams in a semi-circle to form an Arbor over a bench. I made...
Beat me to it. I was coming back with a Euonymus, but we had to go out for the day.
C. kousa is from China and if this was growing wild in N.C. it is more likely top be C. florida.
One of the Cornus family.
Maybe they are handsome, but if it is an Arum then they can be very invasive and not easy to remove.
You could always eat it, or make Beer fromit or even cloth!. We have a garden full of them, the seeds blow in from the surrounding fields. Been...
Let's put it this way, in my garden there are dozens of Lilium lancifolium, all producing hundreds of bulbils, BUT there are no baby lilies...
Well, if you start some every year, then once they begin flowering, you will have some coming on every year thereafter. Mind what one does with...
Here goes. See if I can remember this piece I wrote many moons ago. First of all they are basically seeds so treat them as such. Sow now in...
Looks like one of the hundreds of forms of Hedera helix, soi dit English Ivy.
Arisaema triphyllum if you want the Latin name. Since there are only 4 species in the Americas there is not much choice really.
It also comes in white too.
No, 'ftaid not. Looks more like a memeber of the Mallow family.
Pawlonias do take a few years to reach flowering size and they can grow a huge amount in one season. We cut ours down to the ground in February...
Well ours survive down to -10c. so decide for yourself. They are pretty tough and they do come from Eastern Europe where the temps do get pretty...
Helleborus niger is the so called Christmas Rose. This may in favourable conditions begin to bloom near to the end of December. They are usually...
There are actually only a few species of ivy. H helix, canariensis, azorica, nepalensis, cypria,hibernica, maderensis, maroccana and pastuchovii....
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