Blazing stars: in bloom and in seed
Years ago, Dan Johnson (Assistant Director of Horticulture, and designer extraordinaire) pointed out to me that there was one plant of our native prairie blazing star that always bloomed a month or more after the others.
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Zauschneria arizonica
What an amazing autumn! We almost always have had a dusting of snow by now, or light frost. But this fiery summer blazes
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Hemerocallis graminea
Grassleaf daylily (Hemerocallis graminea)
There are a few days in June when you can finally declare
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Podophyllum emodi
Anyone who grew up in the Midwest knows the modest, nodding May Apple (Podophyllum peltatum) ubiquitous in the woods there. I suspect that not one in twenty visitors
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Spanish draba (Draba hispanica)
Poor drabas! Such a colorless name…and they have other image problems too–that acid
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Christmas rose (Helleborus niger)
Autumn is imbued with intimations of mortality: dying leaves, dormancy, doom, gloom, Hallowe’en colors and ghosts and spooks: Boo! Gardeners know
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I worried — why leave North America at the height of late summer, with the veggies overflowing in the garden, the leaves turning…the answer is Africa in springtime. What a glorious time to be here and get a second spring in the same year. Temperatures in Johannesburg and Pretoria were perfect, the days sunny, and flowers overflowing.
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