Greenthumb's Garden

From friends, grows 2-3 feet a year, but still hasn't bloomed. Excited about this summer and new position p...

first flowering spring of 08. I had to replace one that didn't do so well in this pot, but I was away alot ...

Another I know only the common name. Real resilient, I give babies to people who forget their plants too often ...

This one I got from a greenhouse, again by cutting. It hasn't grown real fast but I live the color of it. ...

Dark round foliage with some purple. Scarlet blossoms. This is a somewhat tender plant that can't get too ...

This fuschia has proven very tough. I bought it filled with aphids so I gave it a good drowning again and again...

This is from European Uprights a hybrid called Golden Marinka I'd guess due to the variegation on the leaves...

A small flowered variety, this was bought at a local superstore as a sixpack to let seed out on the driveway to ...

This plant is just going in, I need to link some pics and then update. This little one has been in the garden f...

My first Syringa, a nice purple flowering lilac, chosen to match the lilac blooms across the backyard growing up...

A variegated, orange flowered shrub preferring a sheltered position with part to full sun. I've always thou...

This wild member of our flora is very tall and bright in a garden situation and returns each year in place so yo...

A lovely and tall clump forming flower. The plant itself a bit more of a groundcover but each produces a tall s...

New to the house, I am really excited to have her join the garden. Really full of blooms when I got her and lot...

This lovely blue beauty is easy resilient and creates perfect clouds of blue in the border. This variety is of ...

Little groundcover beauty with dark tinted leaves, like chocolate. Blue flower on upright spikes in spring can ...

This one isn't mine, though it does say it self seeds and I ought to grab a flower head for myself. :-) Th...

A compact double blooming upright variety, this blooms through spring. Though a shorter season than other colum...

Wild in dry disturbed areas in the flats, this lovely and picky plant spreads quickly where it chooses. Not the...

Looks like Lophospermum and Asarina are the same plant and Asarina is in the GOY book already, so Asarina it is....

This bergenia and many others seem to enjoy living here in Alaska, even in the cold interior. I haven't had...

Strongly pungent scent, this plant drew bee's from everywhere. The flowering never stopped with dead headin...

An orchid very simple to manage and less demanding so a great starter. I have it growing in a small plastic orc...

A lovely pepper that I try to grow each year. Must be grow in the heat and so here its porch or greenhouse. Mu...

A lovely and bright plant that seems to enjoy most conditions with enough protection and warmth. SO here it sur...

Tested perrenial from a local supplier. From six inch pot, it doubled in size and that was a cold short summer....

Bought late season on sale, I haven't seen it flower and hope it grows through next summer to show me at lea...

Spring and fall flowering clematis, it flowered both times even in my short season. I am overwintering for the ...

Cold weather bush clematis, about three foot tall with soft pink blooms brushed slightly back. These blooms are...

Yes, another integrofilia. I'm so pleased with them. This one stayed more compact, though I had it potted ...

Ah, what a name. Anyhow, this little clematis seemed to survive over the winter well although I didn't thin...

Hardy fall flowering clematis, this will brighten those autumn days with medium size yellow bells followed by la...

A native where I grew up in Idaho, This plant can grow up to 6 ft tall. It has a thorned stalk thata is very st...

I know, coleus, but I have enjoyed this plant as my training for propagation, and have got really astounding pla...

This tiny thing is almost four years old, any times on giving it a boost are welcome, i really love.

This bush form pumpkin is reliable even here in the cold, gave a great bunch of yellow flowers and big green fol...

The lady slippers seem to like my place the most of all my orchids. This is a variegated variety, pleasing foli...

Bought as plug plants in a six pack, I took some internet advise and buried them to their necks, just the last f...

I would expect blooming throughout the summer but this last was just oo cool. Nice spicy scented miniature carn...

Shorter plant, only 6-8 inches tall, it was covered in blossoms all season. Lovely two colored pinks, tested by...

Lovely hardy dianthus, living now well over the winters here in Alaska. I plant it just above the earth so that...

So on reminding myself of the name of this plant, I find it renamed to Lamprocapnos. Frustrating when that happ...

Powder white and thick like a succulent, this is a yellow blooming wildflower from South Africa with a habit res...

Not positive on the name, this looks like it with a little pink tint on powdered white leaflets. A lovely roset...

Silverberry is a wild shrub that does grow in our area, though the only one that I have gotten to look at is at ...

this orchid cactus was a cutting I took of a thirty year old at the univ. It was blooming big white blooms with...

Wild cotton grass can be found in any wet and boggy area in Alaska. More species as well, but in the interior w...

A new fuschia. I have a thing for getting these through the winter in the house. This one is so interesting an...

Took off slow due to the cool weather and opened only for a good hot sunny day. Didn't need any extra atten...

Peruvean native, can be grown as a shrub. Indoors it can easily get infested with bugs and is tender to treatme...

Came to my garden with a tag, navajo princess, in 2008 but it is pictured pink and this flower is not. More a s...

My first amarylis, inspired me to go directly to the nursery for more. Huge striped petals with fascinating str...

A new plant this year is amaryllisand this is one, Yet to spread its petals fully, its been very happy. I'v...

Almost double the size of all my others, it stand about 1 meter tall. The blooms were a good salad plate size a...

A small double bloomer, each blossom carries about fifteen petals. I had a second stalk grow right behind the f...

A gift from work for a favor I did. I always wanted one, and didn't know that they bloom as well. A pleasa...

I must admit, we are just too cold for good morning glories, or the sun is just not enough. I've had them v...

This was a tiny thing in a three inch pot. I needed to fill a space beneath a banana in this very large pot. I...

Large leaved, dark green foliage. Flower spikes are dark purple to black with bright yellow flowers that last a...

New asiatic lily introduced this year as they have been so successful in this cold climate for me so far. A nic...

Dark red center lily I've had now three years. I haven't had the same experience twice yet, as it has m...

A bedding alyssum, this particular variety had great colors from purple through the pinks to white. I got this ...

This was a lovely find at one one of our nursery houses here. And they repeat it each year, so it does well. T...

New addition 2008. Waiting to see if it overwinters in this Zone 2 with a good mulch in a raised bed. I hope s...

One of many lychnis that will survive the cold weather, this variety has dark almost purple foliage with bright ...

This is a very tall and hardy fern, also foudn wild here in Alaska. I have mine in a bit of a dry spot, and tho...

Really electric and bright colors, this plant enjoys heat and full sun. On cloudy days or in cooler wet weather...

I know only this common name. Though we are very dry here, I keep orchids so I figured I could do ferns. This ...

A new addition in 2009, this variety states a hardiness to -40 so it should survive my conditions. I love the d...

I acquired this, as many of mine, from a propagation class at univ. Three years later I have this fantastic, bi...

I found this plant at the univ. greenhouse. More common in the 50's, it is also known as the twelve tribes ...

Fine flavored and sharp leafed, this basil went to flower too quickly. I have learned my best success comes fro...

Usually called pregnant onion, this nice little plant has been in my house for many years. I didn't plant i...

I just love this screaming red. I have carried this strain for a few years now, making new cuttings in january ...

South African native, it is very cold tender until this senetti form was developed. It still couldn't flowe...

Loving the fragrance of petunia, I find I love to some around each year. I like needing to deadhead them and do...

Heirloom strain I got as seed, a little spendy for seed, but the reulst was a hardier looking leaf with white ce...

Wonderful star shaped flowers with bold and distinct coloring on smal 6-8 inch plants. I snipped off at the gro...

A nice wild Jacobs Ladder in interior Alaska. Seems there are two forms. This one with larger flowers and peta...

Strong tuberous wild plant that grows to 6ft tall with big hanging white seedheads through the later summer. Le...

A hybrid type of polyanthus, the blooms are atop a flowering stem rather than bursting singley from the plants c...

Smaller of flower than our wild pulsatilla patens, this little lovely was just smiling up with this fuzzy red fa...

Grows and grows and grows. Has beautiful star blooms in hot pink, but it hasn't ever bloomed for me. I&#39...

Second Azalea addition, again in the northern lights hybrids Rhododendron canadense x Rhododendron kosteranum de...

Light pink shaded flowers and dark foliage. The Lights group are for colder temps, down to -35 F. I have them ...

This is everywhere here in the interior. One of the most common sights you'll see in the flats. It is a rh...

This is a common pink wild rose but we have so much and the flowering display in Alaska so wonderful it is well ...

Canadian Strain developed in 10973 for cold hardiness, it does live up to the hype. I've had it three years...

Bought this just tiny and have been taking tender care. I've had a death every winter with this herb on oth...

This variety showed single and double bloom forms ranging from yellow streaked with orange to a rusty orange. A...

This plant flowers often and seeds prolifically. I took it out of a terrarium cause it was taking over. My moth...

I started this from one leaf years ago, not in perfect shape anymore, but I defy those that want the perfect pla...

I acquired this out of bloom and have new buds forming about a month later. Just took a baby off it as well so ...

Bought out of flower for the soft pink variegated edge, really eye catching. It is fuzzier than my others and s...

The edges of the purple flowers are frosted with white, really gives a stunning brightness to the blooms. Leave...

Either ruffled petal or double bloom, this marshmallow like white blossoms are marbled with a deep purple, an un...

Lovely lighter green-leaved saintpaulia with bicolor pink flowers with yellow centers. Puts one in mind of viol...

I like the large leaf habit of berggarten which dries well and turns into a rub well. Very softly scented, this...

This is a nice savory that I grow each year. Forms a good bush sown in a bunch and crops nice all summer until ...

My little succulent from the univ. greenhouse. Its had some traumas, but I try to spoil it. Someday, i'm g...