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I received it in 2021 and transplanted it twice to different places - it never bloomed for me.

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Grows very well in my garden in zone 7b on sandy soil. Quickly formed a large clump that has bloomed every year since planting. Large blooms beautifully ruffled. Standards with strikingly rich golden yellow color - love it!
Long flowering period because the buds open one after the other.

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Grows very well in my garden in Zone 7b on sandy soil. Very long stalks with comparatively small blooms. Tried for two seasons but blooms did not take pollen, never got any pods. Pollen was fertile on other varieties though.

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I have been growing Summerific hibiscus in SW Florida for 2 years. My Evening Rose hibiscus, which is in a large pot, is beautiful, but seems more tender than the others, the flowers looking ragged by the end of the afternoon, in full sun (same with Valentine's Kiss). I just moved it to a more shaded spot under the roof. The dark color of the leaves provides a beautiful contrast to the huge gorgeous pink flowers.

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Of the four Supertunia cultivars I planted in my hillside garden one month ago, Violet Star has the most attractive growth habit and is the most floriferous. The other, less well performing Supertunias planted at the same time are Bubblegum, Hoopla Vivid Orchid and Pink Star Charm.

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Ragged Robin (Silene flos-cuculi subsp. flos-cuculi) is found in several counties in the Adirondack Mountains of northern NYS, where it has become naturalized as a wildflower. It can be found along remote roadsides as well as wetter areas, such as some fields / old pastures, and sometimes along banks of streams. Its flowers are found in late spring to early summer.

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Osakazuki Akame is a more compact form of its sister variety 'Osakazuki'

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This is early Spring colouration (usually too cold to come out and check hostas) so missed this one for 20 years!
According to Mark Zilis in his wonderful Hosta Handbook, this cultivar, with its unusually splotched early foliage, is either "one of the most beautiful hostas ever developed or something that induces itching"
The splotching "is not caused by a virus but is a genetic trait". There are in fact a couple of seedlings that exhibit this characteristic.
Cynthia changes to all green after a few weeks

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I have noticed that in the 3 years I've had prairie blue eyes, the 1st year I just wasn't sure it was blue. Second year it was really light and barely an eyezone. Today I listed the picture and it finally looks like prairie blue eyes. Do you all have that problem?

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This shrub species is native circumpolar to northern Eurasia and North America, mostly growing wild in moist, peaty boreal forests or on high calcium soils of mountains. It needs moist soils of a wide variety with a pH of 4.5 to 8.0. It does best in cold climates, requiring a good cold period for dormancy. It is best not to grow below USDA Zone 6. Its white flowers are slightly fragrant. The dark blue fruit must be fully dark blue all over to be sweet to eat, and it is not self-fertile and must have two different plants or varieties or cultivars to really bear fruit. If a summer is really hot, it can lose its foliage after bearing fruit, but will still be alive. There is a good number of varieties from different parts of its range. The L. caerulea edulis is the most used one from northeast Asia for growing tasty, sweet fruit. There is a large, growing list of edible cultivars.

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'Maui Buttercups' is considered one of the best yellow hostas. It forms a mound 10x14 inches within three years. The leaves are about 5 inches and they are cupped, rounded and corrugated and the tall flower stalks display white blooms. It is considered to be sun tolerant...

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A very nice looking plant with few flowers. This peony is a dud.

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Miniature succulent with tiny, chunky, dark green leaves (to about 1/2" long) bearing white scaly texture. Stems grow to about 6 inches (mostly sideways, sometimes upward). Small whitish flowers. A well behaved container plant, good subject for macro photography.

From San Luis Potosí.

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This one is proving to be an excellent Pod parent. I only set three pods (different pollen parents) last year. Got 15+ seeds in every pod with 100% germination.

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Very early in South Carolina.

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Very attractive blue-gray to blue-green yucca growing up to 6-15 feet tall (occasionally much larger). From southwest Texas (Brewster County) and northern Mexico. Relatively long leaves (up to 2 feet) appear in great numbers (>100) in a healthy rosette. Leaves are smooth, with a terminal spine and very fine marginal teeth. They sometimes have a yellow marginal stripe. Dead leaves are retained below, pointing downward and cloaking the stem. Many/most plants are unbranched, but they may branch sparsely at the base or at the top. White flowers appear in spring on inflorescences to 2 feet or more tall.

The dense, full foliage atop a relatively narrow stem (6-12" wide) makes older plants particularly impressive. Some people choose to remove the dead leaves below the rosette by cutting them off at the base, leaving a sort of nubbly stem exposed. I prefer the natural look.

Provide lots of sun and excellent drainage in containers and in the garden.

Compare to Y. thompsoniana (found further north in Texas; shorter; smaller leaves with a rough texture) and Y. rigida (from northern Mexico; fewer, wider leaves that are rigid and straight; inflorescence partly cloaked by leaves).

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Smallish glaucous blue-gray-green agave from the SW US and NW Mexico. Dry-growing, sun-loving, heat-tolerant, and cold-tolerant (when kept dry). Size reaches about 2-3 feet wide (per rosette), depending on the variety and the conditions. Provide excellent drainage and lots of sun for best color and form.

From southern California, northern Baja California, Arizona and Sonora. Widely distributed and easily viewed in Anza Borrego Desert State Park (CA), where it flowers in vivid yellow during the spring and early summer.

This species is similar to Agave cerulata, which grows further south in Baja California (the dividing line is about 30°N latitude). The latter plant is usually a different color (more yellow-green), slightly smaller, with leaves that are wider for their length. A. deserti does not usually have brown eyelets ringing the base of the teeth.

The type variety Century Plant (Agave deserti var. deserti) from CA and BC usually offsets and may form large clumps. Heavily offsetting plants may produce smaller rosettes because they end up competing with each other. Desert Agave (Agave deserti var. simplex) from further north and east is solitary and may be better represented in cultivation. Century Plant (Agave deserti var. pringlei) occurs only in northern BC and is slightly larger.

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I've had Doc Branch since 2017. It's been a very reliable bloomer for me. It even bloomed last year despite an early drought and not getting any supplemental water. It hasn't increased much for me but it still manages to put on a good show.

I can't remember ever seeing much of any sculpting on the blooms. However, I have some kids from Doc Branch that show more visible sculpting.

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The mascula peonies I am growing are from seed collected by Josef Halda in 2001, notes on which can be found on the internet. I make this comment because as you can see in my pictures, the foliage is a matte dusty rose to start, changing to brownish green and then to a matte bluish-green.

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While I love this daylily it hasn't done well for me. I've had Charmed I'm Sure since 2017. However, I didn't get my first bloom until 2021! I've had to move it around the garden to find a spot that it likes. It likes the spot it is in now (a container) as it even put up a second scape after the first one was broken off in 2022. It did not bloom for me in 2023 but that was likely due to the effects of the early drought we had even though CIS blooms mid-late for me and not early-mid as registered. Many of my potted daylilies went dormant that summer.

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