Many of my plants come with a treasured memory of the person who shared them with me, including this early-bird white bearded iris, first on the punch once again in February’s sunburn to snow weather. I pass them along, too, like my perennializing Leucojum. I planted a few long ago after admiring them in old | read more →

There’s something empowering about picking a little vase of flowers and foliage from your own garden. So, when a few of my Narcissus ‘Erlicheer’ stems flopped over last weekend, I snipped them and filled in with wayward silver germander stems. Although not native, they don’t run rampant. But Chinese tallow tree, beloved for its fall | read more →