Plants and seeds from my garden
These are the plants I grow, propagate, and share. You’ll find the basics that have helped me, along with a few notes from my own garden.
Ghost Plant
Graptopetalum paraguayensePale rosettes, easy propagation, and a graceful trailing habit.
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Chinese Money Plant
Pilea peperomioidesCheerful coin-shaped leaves and plenty of pups to pass along.
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Spotted Begonia
Begonia maculataSilver-spotted leaves, dramatic red backs, and easy-to-root stem cuttings.
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Fiddle Leaf Fig
Ficus lyrataA rooted stem cutting that can grow into a statement-making indoor tree.
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Snake Plant
Dracaena trifasciataA patient, sturdy propagation with upright leaves and forgiving care.
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Lenten Rose
Helleborus × hybridaLong-lived, early-blooming shade perennial seedlings with creamy white flowers brushed in pink.
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Balloon Flower
Platycodon grandiflorusThose puffy buds really do look like tiny balloons before they open into star-shaped flowers. This is a patient little perennial worth planting where it can stay.
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Moonflower
Ipomoea albaMoonflowers wait until evening to unfurl their huge white blooms. Plant them near a porch or walkway where you can catch the flowers opening and enjoy their scent.
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Blanket Flower
GaillardiaBlanket flower brings cheerful red-and-gold color and keeps blooming through heat that makes fussier plants wilt. Bees and butterflies approve, too.
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Heliopsis
Heliopsis helianthoidesHeliopsis is sometimes called false sunflower, but there is nothing second-rate about it. It gives the garden weeks of bright yellow flowers and plenty of pollinator activity.
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Butterfly Weed
Asclepias tuberosaThis is the milkweed I have the most seed to share. Its orange flowers feed pollinators, and its leaves feed monarch caterpillars—the tiny striped guest in this photo included.
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Four O’Clock
Mirabilis jalapaFour O’Clocks are full of surprises. The trumpet-shaped flowers open late in the day, and one patch can produce pink, yellow, white, striped, and speckled blooms.
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Dill
Anethum graveolensDill earns space in both the herb garden and the pollinator garden. The feathery leaves are delicious, and the flower heads bring in tiny beneficial insects and swallowtail caterpillars.
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Morning Glory
Ipomoea purpureaMorning glories are fast-growing vines with flowers that open fresh in the morning. I’m starting this page with the seeds themselves while I wait for a garden photo of the blooms.
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Helleborus × hybridaLenten Roses bring flowers to the shade garden when winter is barely finished. I have both fresh seed and young seedlings to share from this creamy white, pink-blushed clump.
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