4 posts tagged epimedium

This is not the only place I'm writing about new plants. Last month I wrote a piece for the Daily Telegraph about the top ten new perennials this spring. You can read it here. And over the last year I’ve been posting on new plants over on my Transatlantic Plantsman blog. You can find them all here.

It rained and rained and rained here. It rained much of the time for two days. It was the most rain we’ve gotten in a while, though we’d had a fairly wet winter. Yesterday, when the rain temporarily lessened to a drizzle, I went out and took some pictures in the shady back garden. Here are some of them.

Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer. ~Geoffrey B. Charlesworth mid April lawn SPRING FEVER It's spring ― time for flowers to blossom, fields to turn green and people to feel lazy all day.

Great new plants for shade gardens Great news for shade gardeners. Three superb new evergreen epimediums bred in Britain and launched there last year are now available in the US for the first time – from Wayside Gardens. Believe me, they’re gorgeous – they really impressed me when I saw them in England last spring - and they’re tough too, hardy to zone 5.