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Say Liriope Loudly and Proudly

September 5, 2012 By Carol Michel 14 Comments

Liriope muscari 'Variegata' I was delighted to see that the lilyturf, also known as monkey grass, which is really Liriope muscari 'Variegata',  is blooming now. This tough as nails plant survived the Drought of '12, partial shade, neglect, squirrels and did I mention virtually no rain for three months? I was curious about its botanical family, so I looked it up.  I love how I can look this kind of stuff up on the Internet and get up to date information.  If I relied on the … [Read more...] about Say Liriope Loudly and Proudly

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: perennials, plant taxonomy

Throw me a liana

October 11, 2011 By Carol Michel 10 Comments

Throw me a liana and  hoist me up out of this new rabbit hole I've been exploring. Liana, you ask?  Yes, liana - a woody vine that is rooted at the ground and uses trees and other vertical structures to climb up. That's the first thing I found in this rabbit hole. Liana - like this Trumpet Creeper vine, Campsis radicans, that is growing up and over a metal trellis in my sister's garden. I remember when they got it, they were all excited about their new Clematis.   I hated … [Read more...] about Throw me a liana

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: plant taxonomy, vines

New bloom leads to Milton's Paradise Lost

June 7, 2011 By Carol Michel 10 Comments

Triteliea 'Rudy'I can not tell a lie. Not with Triteleia ‘Rudy’ beginning to bloom in my garden.I’ll admit when I first saw Triteleia’s blue and white striped bloom, I did not know what it was, but after the whole Star-of-Bethlehem scare earlier this spring, the sight of it sent me straight to the lists of bulbs I ordered last fall to find out what it could be.Narcissus? Tulipa? Iris? Nope, nope, nope… Triteleia?Yes, that’s it!I had never heard of Triteliea before I ordered it and then I forgot … [Read more...] about New bloom leads to Milton's Paradise Lost

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: bulbs, plant taxonomy

Not Every Lily Is A Lily

July 25, 2010 By Carol Michel 20 Comments

My garden is full of flowers that we call lilies. There are tiger lilies, blackberry lilies, August lilies, toad lilies, surprise lilies, rain lilies, and daylilies blooming today. But what's in a name? Deception! That's what in a name. These are not all lilies! Can you tell which are truly lilies and which aren't? Let's start off with this Tiger Lily. Yes, this really is a lily, Lilium tigrinum. It is a lily because it is a member of the Liliaceae family of plants. How about this … [Read more...] about Not Every Lily Is A Lily

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: perennials, plant taxonomy

A New Family In The Garden

May 21, 2010 By Carol Michel 14 Comments

It always starts out so innocently. For several years, in early May, a local garden club has held a plant sale at the home of one of their members, just off a busy road that I drive up and down many times during the week, especially on the weekends. Every year, I see their sign advertising the plant sale but always on the day of the sale, I seem too busy and rushed and hurried to stop and look. But this year, I made myself slow down, for just a few minutes, and stopped in to see … [Read more...] about A New Family In The Garden

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: ground covers, plant taxonomy

Thoughts Related to Viburnums

November 5, 2009 By Carol Michel 13 Comments

Raise your hand if you thought that the Viburnum genus was still in the Honeysuckle family, Caprifoliaceae.Yes, I thought so, too, and many online resources and books still include it in that family. But it appears that after careful review using molecular phylogeny, botanists decided that the genus Viburnum should be moved to the Moschatel family, Adoxaceae.Molecular phylogeny? I also naively thought that botanists looked primarily at flower structure to determine what family a plant should be … [Read more...] about Thoughts Related to Viburnums

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: plant taxonomy, shrubs

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