by Josh Coceano | Sep 6, 2012 | Plant of the Week
Salvia ‘Wendy’s Wish’ is a long-blooming flowering sage. Unlike other salvias which require a long growing season or short days to initiate flower buds, Salvia ‘Wendy’s Wish’ begins producing a profusion of tubular magenta flowers in late spring and continues...
by Josh Coceano | Aug 22, 2012 | Plant of the Week
Curcuma, derived from the Arabic word kurkum, meaning turmeric, was first described by Linnaeus in 1753. Curcuma ‘Sulee Sunshine’ is a hybrid from Thailand developed for the cut flower industry. Otherworldly looking flowers, often referred to as cones, emerge...
by Josh Coceano | Aug 14, 2012 | Plant of the Month
Sometimes a plant looks and performs so well that you take it for granted. Such a plant often isn’t flashy yet provides vital form, presence, or function to the garden. Case in point is the Aristolochia macrophylla covering a majority of the wooden arbor in the Terry...
by Josh Coceano | Jun 20, 2012 | Pests & Diseases, Special Interest, Sustainability Topics
When I was young I asked Santa for a greenhouse. I secretly hoped for one in the Lord and Burnham style, the kind featured in the glossy British gardening magazines. Realistically I was willing to settle for one with polyethylene panels. I knew Santa had many lists to...
by Josh Coceano | Jun 13, 2012 | Plant of the Month
The middle of North America, roughly a triangular area stretching from Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan Canada down to southern Texas and Mexico, and across from Indiana westward to the base of the Rocky Mountains, roughly 1.4 million square miles, was covered by...
