For those of you that use a Blackberry, IPhone or an Android, I’ve created simple mobile blog. It’s a lot easier to read.  The easiest way...

It’s easy to find new plants. What’s hard is finding better plants. When I hunt for new plants it’s easy to get overly excited. I have to s...

Fred Case once told me he choose to be a High School teacher instead of a college professor because it afforded him more time to be out in...

Schizophragma hydrangeoides , while called the Japanese Hydrangea-vine, is not actually a hydrangea. It is, however, in the Hydrangea family...

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...