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PLANT OF THE WEEK #96: Elaeagnus x ebbingei
By Michael
May 17, 2022
Elaeagnus x ebbingei is a great big brute of a shrub.  At a maximum of about 5m tall by the same wide, it’s unlikely that you’ll ever want to release it into your garden in an
PLANT OF THE WEEK #95: Cotoneaster horizontalis
By Michael
May 10, 2022
OK, I’m a bit nervous about this one.  I guess it comes down to whether Plant of the Week is about raising plant awareness or whether it represents plant promotion. For I want t
PLANT OF THE WEEK #94: Viburnum opulus (‘Kalyna’ to Ukrainians)
By Ashley Awramenko
May 2, 2022
My suggestion for plant of this week is one which holds deep significance to a country currently enduring great suffering. The war in Ukraine continues to shock the world with Russ

PLANT OF THE WEEK #95: Cotoneaster horizontalis
By Michael
May 10, 2022

OK, I’m a bit nervous about this one.  I guess it comes down to whether Plant of the Week is about raising plant awareness or whether it represents plant promotion. For I want to write about Cotone ...

PLANT OF THE WEEK #94: Viburnum opulus (‘Kalyna’ to Ukrainians)
By Ashley Awramenko
May 2, 2022

My suggestion for plant of this week is one which holds deep significance to a country currently enduring great suffering. The war in Ukraine continues to shock the world with Russia’s obscene bruta ...

PLANT OF THE WEEK #93: Carex testacea
By Michael
Apr 26, 2022

If you’re a long-term reader of The Gardenist, you’ll know that I’m forever in two minds about evergreen grasses.  Nearly everyone in a climate sufficiently moderate to grow the wide range of e ...

PLANT OF THE WEEK #92: Parthenocissus quinquefolia (Virginia creeper)
By Michael
Apr 19, 2022

Like most kids, I grew up plant-blind.  But Virginia creeper, along with its relative Boston ivy, somehow broke through and made itself known to me.  I recall, from the earliest age, a charming old ...

PLANT OF THE WEEK #91: Crocus speciosus 'Oxonian'
By Catherine
Apr 12, 2022

Decades ago my gardening friends and I attended a lecture given by the renowned Irish gardener Helen Dillon. To be frank I remember little of that event except one outlandish statement declared by Hel ...