The earliest iris to bloom is the petite Iris reticulata.

Hosack realized the need for a public garden as a research facility for medical scientists and their students.

Quite a number of flowering annuals can be started by sowing their seeds directly into the garden.

Before long, some of the earliest flowers to bloom will be stirring in our gardens.

Here are some interesting quotes... And a bit of advice: We are all so eager to have flowers on our gardens again, that we are susceptible to all of the plant offers that bombard us. But it really is too early to start ordering plants. January is too soon!

Lindsay was the Grande Dame of gardening in a time when ladies did not have professional careers.

Do you wait until Twelfth Night to take down the Christmas tree and holiday decorations?

The English colonists in Virginia used mistletoe to decorate their homes and their churches during the Christmas season. Mistletoes are evergreen parasitic plants with small leaves, yellowish flowers and waxy white berries.

Jewel orchid's foliage guarantees a handsome house plant even when it is not in bloom.

A favorite house plant of many people is the hoya, an epiphyte vine that is commonly called wax plant.