This post was written by my friend Stephanie Cohen aka the Perennial Diva.  Stephanie is an award winning garden writer and plant dynamo. Th...

Bobby Saul with Route 66  While I specialize in new and improved flowering shrubs, I can appreciate a good new plant be it an annual, per...

I am sad to say that my dear friend Greg Speichert died Thursday night in Philadelphia while attending the Independent Plant Breeders Con...

I just got back from plant hunting in Japan. And while I am thrilled with the plants we found I'm also thrilled to be sleeping in my own...

The trouble with plants, and the great thing about plants, is that they’re living creatures.  Strangely enough people don’t often think abou...

Typically, when we think about ground covers we tend to think about Ivy ( Hedera helix ), Pachysandra and Vinca and little else, but there...

The hydrangeas ( Hyd. paniculata ) were in full bloom when Dale and I met Jelena in the summer of 1996. We met her at Hemelrijk, her fami...