Diohio's Garden

Bought 4-28-06 for $17.00 at the College Garden Sale. It likes wet acidic soil which is what I have. It can gr...

Perennial native that loves moist woods. It often grows in large colonies. The flower has very unusual fern-li...

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

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

A garden favorite ! Bought from Faber's for $1.99 in 2004. They are short-lived but usually reseed themsel...

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

Bought 10-16-04 from Park Seed 3 for $2.48. Very weak stems can't hold up the flowerhead very well.

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. ...

I bought lotus Rosa Plina May 6, 2004 from my Koi breeder. She got her own little pool and gave me 4 blooms the...

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

One of the remaining waterlilies in my pond, that have survived the koi. Some are white while others look pale ...

Purchased in 1999 or 2000 for about $8. The koi uprooted it and killed it a few years later.

One of the first flowers I added to my yard after building the house. A bunch was given to me by the lady that ...

Free from Debby 1998. Spreads fast. Basal leaves are evergreen. I've spread this all over the yard in man...

I found a small patch of this fern growing under one of my hostas in the woodland garden. It doesn't look a...

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

One of my favorite native spring wildflowers, Showy Orchis grows in a small colony in my back woods. It has a p...

This wildflower was introduced from Europe. Also called Dove's Dung, Snowdrops, Starflower and Summer Snowf...

Hot pink Peony free from Linda 5-04-04

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

Who knew that there was a Passionflower that was hardy in Ohio !! I bought one about 9 years ago and then anoth...

Got this one free from Linda too, 5-04-04

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

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

I first found a large patch of Miami Mist about 3 miles down the road from me, right along the edge of the road....

One of the first Garden Phloxes that I bought for the garden.

Greek Valerian is very closely related to Jacob's Ladder. It is a native perinnial of Ohio and is often fou...

Bought 6-14-02 from Carolyn Wilson's Greenhouse for $2.00. Spreads slow. Right now I have a long row of ab...

Bought 9-24-03 from The Good Earth for $6.00. Spreads by runner. I transplanted some to a sunnier spot and tha...

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

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

HOST plant for Citheronia regalis, Regal moth. A native bush/small tree that came up wild in my front yard. Wh...

Bought 3-17-08 from David Austin Roses for $15.95. I saw a pic of this rose in Mikec's garden and had to ha...

I first saw this rose for sale at Lowe's and fell in love with it but I didn't buy it. Soon afterward M...

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

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...

Free......a cutting from Linda's mother bush 5-07-05.

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

This is a native wildflower that I purchased at Lowe's on 5-06-08 for $6.00. I transplanted it into a large...

Bought 4-23-07 WalMart for $3.00. Zone 3-8. Blooms mid-summer and then again late fall. Deadhead. 12-18&quot...

Free from Nancy 6-18-03. My favorite stonecrop in the garden ! It comes from Japan Zone 2-10. Beautiful bloom...

I was given a little clump of this yellow stonecrop years ago and now I have it all over my yard. It makes a ni...

Bought 8-19-02 for $2.00 from Dorothy Sidwell's greenhouse. I have started many plants from cuttings and ei...

Bought 8-19-02 for $2.00 from Dorothy Sidwell's greenhouse, fall sale. This plant comes from China/Korea an...

Fire Pink is a short-lived perennial native wildflower of Ohio and is one of the only red flowers in the woods. ...

Blue-eyed Grass is not really a grass but is in the Iris family. It's a perennial native of Ohio. There ar...

This little cutting was given to me way back around 1997 from a friend. I planted it and pretty much forgot abo...

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.

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

Wood Poppy is a perennial native of Ohio only growing in the eastern half of the state and there are two colonie...

Bought 6-22-03 from Col. Garden Sale for $4.00. Really showy when in full bloom. Deer will eat this plant.

A native wildflower here, but only a few ever found in my woods. I transplanted several to my yard and now they...

Also called White-flowered Trillium, and is a native perennial of Ohio. This trillium has the largest flower ou...

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

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

I've found several of these growing in our back woods. They are all very short and have never bloomed. In ...

Bought 9-13-04 from Envirotech for a few dollars. Back yard

I bought this bush in spring 2007 for $16.00 from the College Garden Sale. It's supposed to be a native. Z...

Bought 5-02-07 for $11.00 from Dorothy Sidwell, private Greenhouse. It's a doublefile and gets 2 rows of fl...

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...

Purchased From Seely's in Columbus on 4-23-03 for $2.99.

Bought 6-20-02, no record of how much but I think I got it from Carolyn Wilson's Greenhouse.