I Need A Cup of Tea

I woke up in a botanical garden again; this time it's real. I'm helping out Jeremy Schmidt here at Plant Delights/Juniper Level...

One of the three most inquired-after plants at APEX has been this Hedysarum, which I had failed to record, and assumed was a plant from Sun...

Sporobolus airoides, a grass in light pink bloom, gives a mist the San Luis Valley between gnarly green greasewood. It's my favorite...

At a distance, and from the wrong angle, Eriogonum heermannii (var. sulcatum here) is an ugly scrapper of a native.  You may first noti...

Nature is the real boss here. Monday's snow turned the surrounding topsoil to mud, halting my finishing the last rock bits. ...

The stones are fine from the front, the first viewing people will see. Behind the garden (upper right) we see the catwalk leading to t...

First, I did a little talk on Crevice garden history and examples around the world... (photo courtesy of Shane Smith) Then, we lo...