Diohio's Garden

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

Bought in 1998 or thereabouts from Walmart for about $8.00. It was very small then and is SO big now that I can...

Bought 3 small potted trees for $1.00 each from Carolyn Wilson's greenhouse 8-28-01. I gave one tree to Ch...

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

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

My favorite fern ! Native fern found in our back woods in little colonies. I transplanted a few to the front y...

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

Spreads very nicely under hostas.
Blooms in April

Free sapling from Linda in 2001. The bucks rub on it and have killed parts of this tree several winters. In su...

Free from Linda.

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

I planted garlic in 2003 and 2004 and left one in my mistake. The bloom is lovely, so I'm glad I forgot it.

I bought this fancy Elephant Ear May 19, 2000 from Glasshouse Works here in Ohio for $20. In spring 2007 I divi...

Not sure if I bought this from Carolyn Wilson's greenhouse or Glasshouse Works back in 2000. I think I pai...

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

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 no...

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

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

Bought 8-04-03 from The Good Earth for $10.00. Mulch it well for winter........Zone 6-10.

I planted one in the front and one in the back. I'm getting a nice little patch in the front now. Too ear...

About 10 years ago I started caring for a stand of Common Milkweed in small overgrown field next door. From the...

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

HOST plant for Zebra Swallowtails. We're lucky to have a large Pawpaw patch in the back yard and also seve...

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

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

Bought 4-11-08 at Lowe's for $3.00. Family Asteraceae.
Supposed to be perennial Zone 4-8.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bought 7-25-02 for $15.00 from Cory's Wildflowers. Sport of H. Gold Standard. 36" x 18" tall..

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

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

Free from plant trade. It has really spread in 1 year !

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

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

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...

Virgin's Bower is a native perennial found in shade along edges of woods. It is also called "Old Man&...

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

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

Bought 6 for $3.00 3-07-97 from Michigan Bulb. All parts are poisonous if eaten. Zone 4-8 however my one book ...

Purchased 2000, can't remember price. It was variegated but has reverted back to solid green. From Africa...

One of my favorite Dahlias

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...

Given to me at a plant trade.

Bought at the College Garden Sale 5-04-07 for $7.00. Remove faded flower stalks for rebloom. Attracts hummers....

A perennial native, this spring wildflower is also called Dwarf Larkspur because of its small size compared with...

Bought 8-19-02 from Companion Plants for ??. Zone 5-9. **Very difficult to transplant. I moved the origional ...

These came up from a packet of seeds sowed in 2007. I'm shocked at how nice they are. They are BIENNIAL. ...

This native spring wildflower is often confused with Dutchman's Breeches which grows in a similar habitat a...

This perennial native is an early wildflower. It grows in deciduous woods. The two long inflated flower spurs ...

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

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

White Trout Lily is a native perennial of Ohio. It is almost identical to Yellow Trout Lily except for the colo...

Trout lily is a native perennial found in dry deciduous woods. Also called Dogtooth Violet, Adder's Tongue,...

Mistflower is another native wildflower that just showed up one year and since then I've transplanted it to...

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

This beautiful wildflower just showed up in my yard one year and reseeds itself every year now. It's a nat...

Saved from the abandoned farm next door. It now forms a nice hedge in my side yard.

Bought this perennial for $1.00 from Faber's in their fall clearance in 2004. It lasted for 2 years (short...

Purchased mail-order from Park Seed on 10-16-04, 5 bulbs for $2.00. They havn't been doing very well until...

Perennial native of Ohio that likes dry shade mostly in deciduous woods, or meadows. I transplanted a few from ...

Native perennial orchid. The tiny flowers are better viewed through a hand lens. The common name comes from th...

Purchased 5-04-04 from Cory's Wildflowers for $15.00. I was told that this is a rather finicky Helleborus ...

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

Free from Nancy Fulecki 4-29-06. Tetraploid

$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

$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. It's a small one (dwarf?)

$8.00 Glurney's 2004.

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

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.

Free from plant trade 5-19-07 Dwarf.

Free from Nancy Fulecki 4-29-06. Tetraploid. BRIGHT orange !!

Free from Linda 9-13-04. Little one (dwarf?)

Free from fall plant trade 9-13-04. Dwarf

Free from spring plant trade 5-21-05

$7.50 from Dick & Pat Henley 6-29-04.

$6.50 from Van Bourgondien 4-12-07. Goes dormant