New Zealand is the origin of this zesty little tough groundcover. Tolerant of light foot traffic, this feathery fern-like little perennial is green with gray purple and dark black tints.  In spring and summer, periodically tiny yellow button like flowers appear a few inches above the foliage-completely charming.  Very tolerant of shade, Platt’s Black isn’t [...]

Behold Arguably the most hideous planned garden ever… The sad thing is, the plant selections are all quite lovely… it’s just their absurd and oafish placement, as well as such niceties as a tiny non-functioning wooden wheelbarrow, 3 types of edging materials, and bright red dyed mulch all combine to make this truly horrific… Gardens [...]

On with the flora show! Insectivorous Native Pitcher Plants Orchids of unknown tribe I found the cool grey blues of these dormant orchid bulbules (Calanthe sedenii Becky) really lovely Living Sphagnum Moss… they use it to assist in moisture retention as well as to gauge moisture levels. Until next year!

My garden, she is beginning to stir… Prunus mume Hamamelis Winter, slumbering in the open air, wears on its smiling face a dream… of spring

So my sweetness & light and I had a most excellent time touring the USBG Production Facility yesterday. The scale of the facility is hard to grasp when one is inside the glass houses, mainly because each house (although technically all under one roof) is maintained as a glass-walled separate entity (meaning 17 unique climates [...]

The lad & I are off to take a tour this morning: “Only once each year do we invite the public to see our growing facility, the largest greenhouse complex supporting a public garden in the United States . The site, completed in 1994, includes 85,000 square feet under glass divided into 34 greenhouse bays [...]