the art garden

One upside of the cool and rainy summer we've been having is the reappearance in my garden of a planting combo that I haven't see...

Peonies are one of those trigger plants that evoke memories of times, places, and people gone by. They are one of only a handful of plant...

Viola !  Aren't those scalloped leaf margins sweet?

Geranium sanguineum

Iris germanica

Plumbago, Ceratostigma plumbaginoides , is painfully slow to emerge in the spring. mid-May appearance of plumbago, also known as leadwort...

Iberis sempervirens (candytuft) and friend

That's a darn big name for a sweet little sedum!  The common name, Chinese mountain stonecrop , is just as long, but not quite such a...

yellow flowering pine-leaf penstemon, Penstemon pinifolius 'Mersea Yellow' The Denver area has been in a Stage 1 Drought   this...