Category: Mike Darcy

Starting Tomato Seeds & Tuberous Begonias
Tomato seeds! Where to start? So many to choose from! Looking over a recent garden catalog arrival, there were […]

Big Bold Hostas
Not all hostas are going to be ‘big and bold’ like ‘Empress Wu’, (photo above), but being one of […]

Favorite Summer Garden Herbs
Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme is one of the most popular songs by Simon and Garfunkel, and both the herbs […]

Glorious Hydrangeas for the Summer Garden
The name Hydrangea denotes water and comes from the Greek words, hydor (water) and aggos (a jar). Together the words […]

The Best Reblooming Clematis
When visiting older established gardens, if there is a border garden, it will probably contain at least one of these […]

Celebrating Colorful Coleus
Long ago, Coleus had been considered a house plant. I can remember, my grandmother always had coleus growing in her […]