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Get on the Echium Bandwagon!

So it seems like at some point this spring everyone (1,2) who I read (and lives in the west coast) has blogged about their Echium plants being all showy and hardy and giant and wonderful and blah blah… more →

The Midwestern Jungle

Get on the Echium Bandwagon! — 4 comments

Tom wrote 3 weeks ago: So it seems like at some point this spring everyone (1,2) who I read (and lives in the west coast) h … more →

Tags: Flowering, outdoors, Chicago Hardy Plants, Echium amoenum 'Red Feathers', Unusual

Here a Bloom, There a Bloom, Everywhere a Bloom — 1 comment

Tom wrote 1 month ago: Ok maybe not everywhere but at least there are a couple… Mixed Container of Taxus x media … more →

Tags: Bulbs, Containers, Flowering, new plant, outdoors, calceolaria, Canterbury Bells, Flowers, Picea pungens 'Islei Fastigate'

ChiBot trip 2004506 — 3 comments

Tom wrote 2 months ago: Do you ever have one of those moments where you see a plant that you’ve lusted after forever b … more →

Tags: Bulbs, Chicago, flowering houseplants, Gardens, Houseplants, new plant, Orchids, outdoors, Places

Spring is...sort of Springing? — 2 comments

Tom wrote 2 months ago:   It’s finally starting to look like spring!  So I’ll give you an (exceedingly) brief to … more →

Tags: Amaryllis Breeding, flowering houseplants, Houseplants, Non-Botanical, outdoors, Super Pointless Projects for the Bored, acer palmatum, Chicago, daffodil

Who loves photos? Tom loves photos! — 8 comments

Tom wrote 4 months ago: Carypoteris has such nice winter character, I’d never seen it in the winter before but I reall … more →

Tags: Places, Gardens, Flowering, Chicago, Epidendrum, Plants, botanic gardens, Aloes, Euphorbia

More from Washington, DC — 2 comments

Tom wrote 8 months ago: Interior of the National Gallery of Art Interior shot of the National Gallery of Art. All art museum … more →

Tags: General, outdoors, Places, Gardens, Parks, Trees, Flowering, Conservatory, washington dc

A Midsummers Update — 3 comments

Tom wrote 10 months ago: The containers in front of the apartment building. I know Ivynettle will gag at the sight of the wax … more →

Tags: Houseplants, outdoors, new plant, Flowering, flowering houseplants, garden musings, caudiciforms, Containers, Amorphophallus konjac

Tree Peony Love — 4 comments

Tom wrote 1 year ago: My mom sent me these pictures of my tree peonies growing up in Minneapolis.  I REALLY regret not pla … more →

Tags: outdoors, Flowering, Plants For You To Love, Minneapolis, tree peony, Peony, Shima-nishiki tree peony, Perennials

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day May — 3 comments

Tom wrote 1 year ago: Oops.. I was out in the yard today thinking “I can’t wait for GBBD, too bad it’s a … more →

Tags: Houseplants, outdoors, Flowering, flowering houseplants, Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, Sedum, Rosa 'Rainbows End', Penstemon, Cytisus Lena

New Plants Episode 905 — 8 comments

Tom wrote 1 year ago: Ivynettle recently posted about all her new plants which made me think “wait a minute, I haven … more →

Tags: Houseplants, outdoors, Orchids, new plant, Flowering, flowering houseplants, Astrantia 'Sunningdale variegated', Corylopsis spicata 'Aurea', echium

Garden Progress — 5 comments

Tom wrote 1 year ago: Nothing terribly exciting to say…I’ve got a lot going on (wrapping up at my current job, … more →

Tags: outdoors, Flowering, garden musings, Ephemerals, Bulbs, garden design, Chicago, Gardens, dicentra

Garden Bloggers Bloom Day April 2012 — 2 comments

Tom wrote 1 year ago: So…I’m a bad garden blogger.  I don’t really have anything to post for this month … more →

Tags: Houseplants, outdoors, Flowering, flowering houseplants, Garden Bloggers' Bloom Day, Houseplant, mini rose, Poppy, Papaver nudicaule

Early Spring — 5 comments

Tom wrote 1 year ago: Spring is…springing extremely early this year.  The other day I saw snow drops, hellebores, ch … more →

Tags: outdoors, Flowering, Ephemerals, garden design, Chicago, spring, squill, Bulbs, Flowers

Can't Get Enough Chicago Botanic Gardens!

Tom wrote 1 year ago: This slideshow requires JavaScript. Perhaps not my most informative post ever but gosh the botanic g … more →

Tags: outdoors, Places, Gardens, Flowering, Ephemerals, Bulbs, Chicago, spring, squill

Plant Attack — 8 comments

Tom wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday I had the privilege of being invited to a luncheon and talk by Diane Ott Whealy, one of fo … more →

Tags: outdoors, Education, Places, Gardens, Flowering, Chicago, Seeds, Chicago Botanic Garden, Witch-hazel

Chicago Botanic Garden — 11 comments

Tom wrote 1 year ago: I decided that since it was February, it was time to visit the Chicago Botanic Gardens again.  I kne … more →

Tags: outdoors, Places, Gardens, Chicago, cacti, Flowers, Chicago Botanic Garden, Tropicals, Witch-hazel

Crocus...in January — 1 comment

Tom wrote 1 year ago: I know its a little hard to see here but the Crocus speciosus just finished blooming.  In January.  … more →

Tags: outdoors, Flowering, Bulbs, Minnesota, Flower, Crocus speciosus, fall crocus

EEEEE! — 2 comments

Tom wrote 1 year ago: I finally got a cyclamen bloom to survive being eaten! … more →

Tags: Flowering, cyclamen, hardy cyclamen

Cyclamen! — 6 comments

Tom wrote 1 year ago: Cyclamen!  Cyclamen!  One of my Cyclamen hederifolium actually survived the summer!  I planted 5 C. … more →

Tags: outdoors, cyclamen, Garden, Cyclamen hederifolium, Outdoor Plant, gardening, hardy cyclamen


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