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Blog Post Culzean Castle Visit by Photoscots
Today I visited Culzean Castle near Ayr, a property owned by the National Trust For Scotland. For those not familiar with Culzean it was featured in The Wicker Man as Lord Summerisle's (played by Chr...
Blog Post Rainbow Thumbs by servingzero
I come from a family that has thumbs of every colour but green. At my mother's house, we were able to decimate a 3 foot cactus that was well-established in about 3 years. How it happened, we don...
Blog Post Wedding Flower Paradise by nomiadler
Choosing wedding flowers is mostly  a girl thing but it is one of the most necessary items at a wedding so it's a job that is not only difficult but one that requires decisions which (...
Blog Post Greenbank Gardens by Photoscots
This was my third visit to Greenbank this year. A delightful ornamental garden within easy reach of the smokey hustle and bustle of Glasgow City Centre, Greenbank is one of those little treasures whi...
Blog Post Pitter Potter by nomiadler
Some of us go to the local hardware store every spring (where potted flowers are now sold)  to buy flowers which we will use to plant our garden. Some of us will get a gardener and some of us wi...
Blog Post Blooms that Beat the Summer Heat by my_favorite_flower
I've always lived in Texas, but I've never had space to grow anything other than some potted plants that I could easily water in a few minutes each night. This is my first summer living in rural Texa...
Blog Post Tree Talk by nomiadler
Each year I try to plant flowers and my gardening success doesn't seem to have any logic.  I buy similar flowers every year but sometimes they bloom nicely and other times not so well, but they ...
Blog Post Transformation by Dawn Zone 6
 In 1999 my husband and I bought our first home out in the country.  No landscaping had been done just a new double wide trailer.  My previous home had the worst yard ever and lots o...
Blog Post Red Rose for Mother's Day by my_favorite_flower
Red roses continue to be the most popular way to say "I love you" to someone special. This year we did just that for Mother's Day! My son and I had a blast in the kitchen cutting apples and baking th...
Blog Post Viburnum in bloom . by Mildred
Viburnum is a genus of about 150-175 species of shrubs or small trees that were previously included in the family Caprifoliaceae. Genetic tests by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group showed however th...
Blog Post Go Out to Play!! by nomiadler
Gardens are not just flowers and shrubs anymore.  People are expecting much more out of their gardens than ever before.  Just like in the last 20 or 30 years people were creating "ente...
Blog Post The Paphiopedilum-Orch id by Mildred
Orchidaceae or Orchid family is the largest family of the flowering plants. Its name is derived from the genus Orchis. One of the members of this beautiful family is the Paphiopedilum. Paphiop...
Blog Post The Hedera by Mildred
Hedera known by the English name ivy is a genus of 15 species of climbing or ground-creeping evergreen woody plants in the family Araliaceae. On suitable surfaces (trees and rock faces), they a...
Blog Post Culzean Photo Update by Photoscots
As promised in my previous blog I present a few photos from my Culzean visit. If you want to add a comment or help with flower identification then please feel free to add a comment. 1. Argy...
Blog Post Frank Lloyd Wright - Falling Water by Mildred
I think that I have mentioned here before that we might be moving soon and we aren't not sure as of yet if it will be to an apartment or to another house. On thing is for sure though, we are done wi...
Blog Post The Dormouse And The Doctor (and Delphiniums Blue) by Mildred
These beautiful Delphiniums were grown by the Patient Gardner from seeds. I find that particulary admirable. I was looking at this photograph and a poem called the Dormouse and the Doctor by...
Blog Post Dark Columbine seedling. by Mildred
Columbine is an easy to grow perennial. Columbine is native to Asia, Europe and North America. If you are a hummingbird lover, Columbine is for you. It is a favorite of hummingbirds and bees beca...
Blog Post The Ultimate answer to Weeds !!! by Mildred
I have just had a life changing experience. Part of my garden is Covered with tuff, supposedly to make a tidier weedless garden. Weedless my foot, is all I can say about that, and i have to...
Blog Post Protecting Seedlings From a Late Freeze by Mildred
This is a very theoretical even exotic question for me, given where I live and maybe that is why I found it interesting. How do you protect seedlings from a late freeze? The solution  - ...
Blog Post Winterberrys - Sprays of Color by Mildred
There is something about sprays of color in a winter garden that do a person good. Well, not only in a winter garden, in a very dry and hot summer garden, the same applies. I am more familia...
Blog Post Natural Design - Primroses by Mildred
photo credit creative commons license crabchick Its quite obvious that these primroses, although they look drawn are real. You can see a certain fleshiness to their petals that leave you ...
Blog Post Thriving At Threave by Photoscots
Last week I visited the popular visitor destination Culzean Castle on the Ayrshire coast of Scotland. About 1 hour drive South of Culzean is another popular National Trust site, Threave Gardens. Loca...
Blog Post The Joys of Landscaping by Mildred
creative commons license rmcgervey I am sure this wasn't the intention, but i thought this post from GardenJoy4me about redoing deck, shed garden and state of mind was quite amusing (p...
Blog Post spring in texas by my_favorite_flower
i have lived in texas all my life, but this is my first spring in the country. the season has brought with it some beautiful blooming suprises! between the wildflowers and the perennials my grandma p...
Blog Post Say it with Flowers....Really! ! by nomiadler
Almost everyone likes to get flowers, (women in particular) but until I wrote this article  I really didn't think much about the type of flower or their meaning.  I like certain flower...
Blog Post Please don't eat the Daisies by nomiadler
Fido needs to go out for a walk but you're too busy working or cleaning the house.  You have a fenced in yard so you let him out, but did you know that there may be poisonous flowers ...
Blog Post your favorite flower by my_favorite_flower
it probably isn’t something you think about too often, but it stands to reason that you have a favorite flower (or two). With over 270,000 known species, there are plenty of flowers for us to c...
Blog Post Weed Wacking Plants by Mildred
 Photo credit In gardening, Like in anything else, you learn something new every day, whether you want to or not. Like everyone else, I have my stubborn weeds that infest certain be...
Blog Post Feel Good Flowers by nomiadler
We all understand the concept of buying, sending or receiving flowers but do we give much attention to where the flowers come from or how nice the arrangements are? We all attend church, s...
Blog Post Looks like a Resnova megaphylla. by Mildred
When i first saw this amazing and beautiful leaf Resnova megaphylla on the growing with plant-blog i thought it's a turtle. A Resnova megaphylla is definitely not a turtle it's An exquisite for...
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