A tiny copse of mature lovely deciduous hardwood trees. No understory plantings to break up the strong vertical lines of the mature trunks. Two bare earth beds with a turf path running between them. What to do? I say plant in massive amounts of colonizing woodland ephemerals and perennials, along with flowering vines. Crocus-Spring – [...]

You guys might recall my swooning over the prospect of owning a small, deliciously wonderful terrestrial orchid known as ‘Egret Flower’, Habenaria radiata in this post back in March (go look, I’ll wait). After receiving the tiny, currant-sized bulbules in the mail several weeks ago and potting them up, I’m happy to say that they [...]

This week in the garden: Cercis canadensis ‘Forest Pansy’ Forest Pansy is a lovely red-leaved variety of our charming Redbud Ginkgo biloba ‘Princeton Sentry’ The newly emerging leaves are like miniature versions of the fully matured leaves, apple green and thinner though… Magnolia ‘Elizabeth’ One of my favorite Magnolias, the best yellow I think– not [...]