Diohio's Garden

Spreads very nicely under hostas.
Blooms in April

Bought 10-16-04 from Park Seed for $5.00. Didn't bloom 2007 because of the drought? Produces a large laven...

Free from Linda.

Sometimes called American Sanicle. Its root is a strong astringent. They come up wild in my yard and in our wo...

Given to me by my mother in 2000. There were only 2 bulbs in 2 little pots. I didn't know that Amaryllis w...

Free from Hilliard OH Plant Trade 5-20-06. Not really a milkweed. Collect seeds when pods are dry. Zone 5-9

An early spring wildflower, dainty and cute. It's in the Buttercup family and is native to Ohio. It is not...

Same as Rue Anemone only this plant has double petals. It's the only double I've ever found, and this o...

Bought 4-01-08 from internet Katz Kountry Kuttins for $7.00. It was a nice cutting. Brugmansias are iin the S...

Two cuttings were given to me back in 2002 I believe. I was lucky that the cuttings were beyond the "Y&quo...

Bought 2 bulbs 4-11-07 from Van Bourgondien for $3.50. Blooms June to July. Grows 14-18" tall. Zone 3-8....

A perennial native of Ohio, New England Aster is a beautiful wildflower, especially when it grows with goldenrod...

Bought from Dorothy Sidwell for $3.75 6-06-02

This plant was given to me in 2004 and I now have many from seed.

White Baneberry is a perennial native of Ohio, is in the Buttercup family and is also called "Doll's Ey...

4-28-04 a friend gave me 3 little sticks (cuttings) from her medium-sized Golden Barberry and I brought them hom...

Won't flower. I have 2 plants and both have been struggling since I bought them years ago.

This native wildflower blooms in my yard in June. It's in the Snapdragon family and is used as a host plant...

At least 8 years ago I bought several different monardas so I'm not sure which this one is. It may be &quot...

Native perennial root-parasite commonly found beneath or in the vicinity of Beech trees. This plant is also cal...

This perennial native is in the mint family. Although my book says that it likes dry sunny open fields, I find ...

I got this baby FREE from Carolyn Wilson's Greenhouse. She divided it from her mother-plant in 1999 or 2000...

This flower can be perennial or biennial, is in the Aster Family and is native to Ohio. It likes dry praires, f...

Bought 8-19-02 from Companion Plants. Zone 4-10. The cluster of black seeds is very ornamental.

This perennial native is one of my favorite spring wildflowers. Its flower lack nectar, quickly dropping petals...

We have a colony of Virginia Bluebells growing wild in our back woods. I've transplanted a few to the yard ...

Native wildflower that likes wet conditions. One just appeared in one of my flowerbeds about 5 years ago and it...

Free from a plant trade 8-21-06. I just found out the name from Greenthumb on GOY (Alaska). She has a similar o...

Free from plant trade 7-17-03. Blooms are tiny white tinged with purple. Keep wells filled with water constantly.

Bought 4-23-03 from Seely's in Columbus for $2.99. Moved it in 2005 where it's doing better now. Beaut...

Free from a plant trade. I love the variegated leaves. Flowers buds come up in late winter, very early spring ...

There are several Butterfly Weed plants growing wild in the overgrown field next to us. I've been sowing se...

Free from Linda Henry 1999. It spread quickly in the cactus bed and the blooms are gorgeous ! Bumble bees love...

Bought from Plant Delights I believe, 2002? Spread nicely in 2 areas for first 2 years and then one area died o...

Creamy white Campanula with dark maroon freckles. This was given to me by a friend, Carrie. I started with a s...

I got this free from a friend, Linda in 2005. It was one of her seedlings. Closely related to Blackberry Lily....

Bought May 7, 2002 for $7.50 from Dorothy Sidwell's greenhouse. Beautiful orange flooms. One of my favorit...

These red Canna were given to me by my boss. I have to dig them after the first killing frost in late fall. Th...

This wildflower likes moist places. I rescued this from a ditch near my mother's house in PA where they wer...

Bought in 2001 for a few dollars, From Faber's maybe. Very colorful in sun but turns solid greens in shade....

A non-native perennial wildflower that appeared in my yard one year. We have lots of this plant along our highw...

Bought 2 in 1997 from Michigan Bulb for $15.00. It several years before it would bloom and I was about to dig i...

Blue Cohosh is a native perennial that grows in my back woods and in my yard. It likes wet shade, deciduous woo...

I've had Blue Cohosh and Giant Blue Cohosh growing in my back woods and just now realized that they were dif...

This spring wildflower was introduced from Europe. This plant is also called "British Tobacco" becaus...

Bought 4-11-08 from Lowe's for $3.00. Pink color. Family is Ranunculaceae. Zone 4-9 I think.

Boughtin 2005. Over winter 2006-07, the raccoons dug it up and the roots froze. I plan on replacing it.

Bought from OSU College Garden Sale for $4.00 5-23-03. Zone 3-10. Gets to about 4' tall. Nice large clump...

A little clump was given to my by a workmate back in 1998 and I now have patches of it in different areas of the...

Flcrazy sent me 2 seedlings on 5-01-08 !! I potted them both and had them in full sun and they seemed to be bot...

This annual can grow to 30" tall. It took me years to ID this wildflower. The leaves make an excellent sa...

I grew this vine from a packet of seeds from WalMart ($1.07 US dollars) and the hummingbirds loved it. One fema...

Bought 10-16-04 from Park Seed 3 for $3.48. Worth every penny !

Bought 10-16-04 from Park Seed for $1.58 each. Narcissus is poisonous if ingested by wildlife/humans. This one...

Bought from Park Seed on 10-16-04, 3 for $2.48.

Rescued from the neighbor's abandoned farm. Daffs were being crowded out by weeds, briars and overgrowth. ...

Bought 10-16-04 from Park Seed, 5 for $2.38. Worth every penny !

Bought 2 bulbs for $3.00 from WalMart 4-08-05. Pot them and lift in fall to a box with peatmoss in cold area (f...

I got this plant free from Linda on 4-18-02. It is the only Dahlia that I still have. All of the others have d...

One of my favorite Dahlias

Given to me at a plant trade.

Wildflower, European import. Ox-eye Daisy contains pyrethrum, a chemical that repels insects and is used in org...

Bought for .75 cents at Faber's It was slow gettinig established.

Many people consider this a weed but not in my yard. I love any blue flower, and this one looks like a mouse fa...

Bought 6-29-04 from Dick and Pat Henley for $10 dug.

Free from fall plant trade 9-17-05. Semi evergreen, Rebloomer.

Free from spring plant trade 5-19-07.. Did not bloom in 2007.

Free from plant trade 9-17-05. Double. REbloomer. Slightly fragrant.

Gree from plant trade 9-17-05. Rebloomer

This is the second try for this daylily. I ordered it before and got a completely different color so they gave ...

$4.00 from Dick and Pat Henley 6-29-04.

Free from spring plant trade 5-19-07. Semi evergreen.

$8.00 from Carolyn Wilson's Greenhouse 6-19-04. One of my first daylilies.

Free from Nancy Fulecki 4-29-06. Tetraploid

$6.50 from Van Bourgondine 3-13-07 catalog order. I origionally ordered "Lacey Doily" but they replac...

$2.00 from Lowe's 9-28-05

Free from fall plant trade 9-17-05. Tetraploid. Ruffled edge

Free from fall plant trade 9-17-05. Tetrapolid

Free from Nancy Fulecki 4-29-06. It can double, or not.

$6.00 from Cory's Wildflowers on 7-17-02. My FIRST daylily bought. This may be a spider??

$6.00 from Dick and Pat Henley 6-29-04. I divided this into 2 plants before I planted them.

Free from fall plant trade 9-17-05 Diploid. Rebloomer. Semi-evergreen

Free from fall plant trade 9-08-07. Diploid. Rebloomer, Diurnal. Semi-evergreen

Free from Helen Desko, internet friend 6-01-03

$2.00 from Lowe's 9-28-05. It's a small one (dwarf?)

$8.00 Glurney's 2004.

$2.00 from Lowe's Clearance Sept. 2005.

Free from fall plant trade 9-17-05

Free from plant trade. Rebloomer. Diploid.

$7.00 Dick and Pat Henley 6-29-04. Huge clump

Free from fall plant trade 9-17-05

$8.00 from Wade & Gatton Nursery, Garden Club trip 7-08-04.

Free from Dick & Pat Henley

$7.00 from Dick & Pat Henley. They lost the name tag so they gave it to me at half price.

Free 11-06-04 Dutch Gardens made an error and said they were having trouble with the color of this daylily not b...

Free from fall plant trade 9-17-05. Semi-evergreen. Tetraploid

Free from Carrie. I'm guessing this name, she didn't know any names of the ones she gave me on 6-11-00

Free from spring plant trade 5-21-05

$6.00 from Cory's Wildflowers, fresh dug. 7-16-03

Free from spring plant trade 5-21-05. NO BLOOMS as of 2007. This is a tiny one.