by Andrew Bunting | Mar 1, 2011 | Garden Plants, Happenings
Bromeliads make both great houseplants and container plants in the sun and shade. This includes the unique group of bromeliad epiphytes, Tillandsia or airplants. These relatively small bromeliads spend their entire existence living in on limbs and branches in the...
by Andrew Bunting | Feb 25, 2011 | Garden Plants
With the warming days has come the blooming of the witch hazels, Hamamelis. These early flowering shrubs are a welcome sign that spring is not too far in the future. The Scott Arboretum boasts one of the largest collections of Hamamelis in the United States. We...
by Andrew Bunting | Jan 24, 2011 | Happenings, On the Road Again…
This fall, I visited a local wholesale company in Bucks Country, Peace Tree Farm. This remarkable business, owned by Lloyd and Candy Traven, produces all its plants organically without chemical pesticides and herbicides. The Traven’s have committed to organic plant...
by Andrew Bunting | Nov 23, 2010 | Garden Practices
As we continue our series on how to overwinter tropicals, we have discussed plants with bulb, rhizome, tuber, fleshy root including Musa, Canna, Alocasia, Colocasia, Xanthosoma, Hedychium, and Alpinia. The next types of plants are those which you will not cut back,...
by Andrew Bunting | Nov 15, 2010 | Garden Practices
To continue our discuss of overwintering tropicals from last week, we will focus on the treatment for Canna, Alocasia, Colocasia, Xanthosoma, Hedychium, Alpinia is similar to that of bananas, but even easier. The elephant ears are fleshy tubers, while the Canna,...
