Several of my coworkers and I were given planted Amaryllis bulbs last week. The stalks on each were just beginning to make their way into the world. The obvious move for us was to agree to race, to see whose Amaryllis grew the fastest. However, the problem with having several Amaryllis plants in the same [...]
I received this email a couple weeks ago, and I thought it was interesting, and asked if I could share it. Here is a copy of [...]
Many of the roses and fruit trees sold from Wayside Gardens are grafted plants. Grafted plants are simply your desired plants grown on top of a hardy rootstock. The top part of the plant, the part that matters, is called the scion. The scion bears all of the fruit, flowers, or foliage that we want. [...]
Dear Fellow Waysiders: Oh dear — does this mean we’re only on the C’s??? Heaven help us when they get to Salvia . . . but by that time I will have gone to my garden in the sky, where all my plants have lovely old-fashioned names (I don’t like to call them "common" names) [...]
You always make me chuckle, Tamsin. You know my theory about this renaming business? I believe the powers that be are working their way through the alphabet. Remember the Anchusa/Brunnera business years back? Then it was Chrysanthemums. Now Cimicifuga is becoming Actaea. And Cornus angustata may be next for the chopping block! Over and out, [...]