After my last post about growing beautiful black bamboo indoors, I thought that I would keep a sort of theme going today and write about a stunning new nearly-black Delphinium that Wayside Gardens is featuring this year. Our Delphinium elatum ‘chocolate’ is absolutely unlike any Delphinium that I’ve ever seen. From several feet away, it’s [...]
I'm very excited about my next houseplant project. This year Wayside Gardens has one of the most stunning and hard-to-find bamboo varieties you'll ever see, Phyllostachys nigra. It is a deeply colored black bamboo, and I've always heard that it makes an excellent large indoor plant. I've got a perfect spot for it this year, [...]
When you’re blogging about gardening, there is often a tendency to write about what you’re doing now. This means that we’re talking about new planting in the Spring, conserving water and weeding in the Summer, planting tulip bulbs in the Autumn, and cleaning up the yard in the Winter. While that stuff is all great, [...]
Here at Wayside Gardens, we always appreciate being mentioned by newspapers. I especially enjoyed this article in the San Francisco Chronicle, because it recommended us as a source for trumpet vines. I'm a great lover of flowering vines, so that put a big smile on my face. I suspect that my love for flowering vines [...]