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Category Archive: Plants

Overcoming my poinsettia guilt

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Poinsettias, Euphorbia pulcherrima, brightened up our home during the holidays but now mine look a little tired. Dropping their […]

Lise Jenkins January 24, 2019 Articles, Plants

A Giant in the rose world

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On Dec. 18, 2018, the rose world lost a giant, a rosarian who changed the rose world. In […]

Lise Jenkins January 3, 2019 Articles, Plants

Euscaphis japonica — a tongue twister to love

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This year Kit fell madly in love. Now she always find herself in this predicament toward the end […]

Lise Jenkins December 22, 2018 Articles, Plants

Lessons from the garden: Civil discourse

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A couple of years ago Kit wrote what she thought was an innocent essay for a garden journal […]

Lise Jenkins November 8, 2018 Articles, Plants

Brilliant Blueberries

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Australian school kids join our latest podcast episode to report on growing blueberries down under. Turns our it’s […]

Lise Jenkins August 15, 2018 Plants, Podcast

Plant Trails – Predicting the Future

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I’m fascinated by new plant development; in researching articles for this column I met Bernadette Clark who runs […]

Lise Jenkins June 7, 2018 Articles, Plants

Song of the Fiddleheads

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As ground temperatures warm up the ferns in my garden have begun to emerge assuring me that warmer […]

Lise Jenkins May 24, 2018 Articles, Plants

Time to Shop the Pot

Root-bound plant
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Garden mania is hitting us full force. Often we go to the garden centers without a list, picking […]

Lise Jenkins April 30, 2018 Articles, Plants

Creating New Hydrangeas

Lavalamp Flare Hydrangea
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With so many new hydrangeas available how does a gardener decide? Bryce Lane of NC State joins me […]

Lise Jenkins April 18, 2018 Plants, Podcast

Worlds Largest Flower Inspires My Resolutions for 2018

Lupin and Brandon Huber
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Awhile back one of North Carolina State University’s greenhouses experienced a baby panda moment, all due to a […]

Lise Jenkins January 7, 2018 Articles, Plants

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