Showing posts with label garden flowers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label garden flowers. Show all posts

Sunday, February 23, 2020

Plant Story--Wisteria, Big Purple-Flowered Vines


My first memory of wisteria is of my father digging out a big plant, shaped like a small tree that was growing at the end of the driveway of our new house in Ohio. He disliked the way it came up well into the lawn. I liked it for its beautiful, fragrant flowers. And that is a good summary of Asian wisterias in the United States.

Sunday, April 3, 2016

Plant Story--Everybody Loves Narcissus and Daffodils

Daffodils!
daffodils



The English called them daffodowndillies 400 years ago. The scientific name is Narcissus. Narcissus, daffodils, jonquils and paperwhites and whatever other names you know, they are all closely related.  

They have been cultivated for hundreds of years, leading to diverse varieties and color forms now found all over the world.

Did you know they are poisonous?