The Frost Resistant Fall Garden
Wintry weather is upon us and we watched our gardens succumb to the cold early this year. No gardener likes to see his plants freeze with the onset of cold […]
Wild Lettuce
Lactuca serriola This has been a great year for weeds. Not only have they proliferated like the meaning of the word but some of them have reached an extraordinary size. […]
Water Clover
Marsilea mutica Say the word fern and people instantly conjure images of a green, feathery plant that is, well,…… ferny. But of course, the typical ferny leaf is but one […]
Evening Primrose
Oenothera sp. There are 145 species of evening-primrose. Some do indeed, as their name suggests, open at night to the delight of the moths that pollinate them. Others bloom during […]
Honeyvine Milkweed
Ampelamus albidus Milkweed in all of its manifestations is the plant of the year because it is the host plant for the monarch butterfly. Other than the common milkweed there […]