Learn-O-Rama

Now that spring is really here, every scrawny twig in the woody corner of our yard has turned out to be a dogwood, and every bush is an azal...

I can see the redbud trees in my yard from the window next to my bathroom mirror. The trees up the hill bloomed several weeks before ours, a...

The bees and hummingbirds love this one. I was watching the fat, furry bumblebees hover around the andromeda while I talked to Dad for his b...

The pink tulips have been around for a week or so, but I didn't know what they were. The pointed tips threw me off, because I've onl...

Scott and I went for a walk in the Coker Arboretum while the kids were in Sunday school, and I found out the name of this plant that's b...

Camellia is one of the plants I already knew before moving here, because Papa had a beautiful camellia bush in his yard. I don't think I...

I'm pretty sure this is a hyacinth. There are more and more plants in the yard deciding it's spring. One of the trees (I don't k...

I didn't know that the daffodil was a narcissus. Mary and I read the story of Narcissus earlier this winter when she was working on the ...

It's still cold here, but we had a nice day last week, and the weather page said it's supposed to be nice this weekend. We've go...

The goat lady told me what this was called. It was introduced to the United States around 1919 as packing material for porcelain and escape...

I never knew azaleas bloomed in the fall. I've only seen them bloom in the spring. But lately I've been seeing fall-blooming azaleas...

The gardening calendar in the newspaper said fall is a good time to plant perennials, so I've planted a few perennial herbs. Scott and I...

I knew this was some kind of salvia, but I couldn't add it to my list until I knew its name. I've seen the red pineapple sage before...

This plant started sprouting up all over the yard last month, especially along the creek. I figured it must be some kind of weed, but the hu...

When I was out shopping for a big bag of vermiculite for my square foot garden, one of the garden centers had a plant that looks just like t...

Great laurel (rhododendron maximum) is a large shrub or small tree. It's related to the azalea, which I knew by sight and spelling from ...

Here's a fun plant for the 100 Species Challenge. 4. Lamb's Ear (Stachys byzantina) Lamb's Ear is a low plant used in borders. I...

Here's my first entry for the 100 Species Challenge: 1. Poison Ivy (Toxicodendron radicans), a good one to be able to identify. It'...

I saw this on a blog I visit occasionally. The idea is to get to know 100 plant species in your immediate area. There are a lot of plants i...