A Rose in the Garden

Mandevilla on Aunt V's porch Angel's Trumpet or Brugmansia at Aunt V A look inside Exotic bloom    Tuberou...

Rudbeckia 'Goldstrum' The 'Goldstrum' is a very popular cultivar (1999 PPA plant of the year) and a bi...

Charlie in the Limelight (Hydrangea) When I hear the phrase "all things bright and beautiful" I don't first recall the tit...

GRASSHOPPERS INVADE GUSTAVO'S GARDEN! Today I opened an email from Rebecca with these photos taken by Gustavo attached. They were i...

I wish I had access to time lapse photography. Today the heat index locally was 95-100 degrees. We had several inches of rain yesterday. I...

My Photo of the Day: Forever and Ever Peppermint When you plant and fertilize one of the hydrangeas that can be pink or blue or somewhere ...

It has been over a month since I began to photograph lilies. I still have a couple of lilies that are only in bud today on the 17th of July....

My Sad-iolas July is for gladiolas. We actually participated in a weekend Gladiola Festival in a previous community south of Chicago where...

My daughter Erica was given control over some small sections of available planting real estate at her rental house this year and became a n...