What's cuter than a baby picture? Aw.... the widdle cutie pie! Sooooo sweet! Here's the proud mama, the daughter of the firs...

Everyone knows you can't save seeds from hybrid varieties. It is practically the first thing you learn as about seed saving. Too bad it ...

Well, at long last, the first flower of my little rose seedling has opened! Its mother looks like this: And the daddy looks like this an...

All my roses are covered with different colored strings! Why strings? Because, after nearly a decade, I've become re-interested in rose...

I've been growing plants from seed since before I started kindergarten It seemed like magic to me then, and it still does today.

Back in November, when I posted my Great Catalog List , I sang the praises of buying seeds. In the comments, Lisa said she would like to ...

The best gifts... ... come in packets

Today's question is from Keith Long, brought on by a comment this post on his blog: My question is about Rhodochiton astrosanguineum ...

It is official. Plant catalog season is underway! Time to make some tea, get a blanket, and do some serious dreaming about next year's g...

While you are thinking about shopping, why not go buy my cartoon calendar ? It makes a perfect gift for that gardener in your life (even i...

I adore Cyclamen hederifolium. Those leaves...  They come up in late summer or early fall, when everything else is going down hill, and las...

I used to say pansies and violas just weren't worth growing. Here in the midwest winter slips pretty quickly into summer, with only a br...

This is a picture of  one of my night scented stock, Matthiola longipetala . It is a ratty little weedy looking thing, which is okay. It is...

It started, as these things so often do, with the Chiltern Seeds catalog. Their thick catalog of lust-inducing descriptions (and no picture...

My drawing yesterday was a happy image of how getting packages of seeds is like having a mailbox full of plants in the middle of winter. T...

See my other garden drawings

Just SOME of the seeds I've ordered so far this year. I'm carefully NOT thinking about how on earth I'm going to have room for...

Two years ago I crossbred the tomato Matt's Wild Cherry (which is simply the most delicious cherry tomato I have EVER had the pleasure o...

Welcome to my explanation of the terms F 1 and F 2 . I'm writing this in preparation for a future post in which I want to reference the...

If you recall, I've been wildly anticipating the arrival of blue impatiens seeds I ordered off of ebay. So when I found a pleasingly ...