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Panicum virgatum, switch to switch grass for flower beds and pots!

 Panicum virgatum

Phormium, a grass-like clump of color in the garden… or pot… or terrace

 Phormium grass, New Zealand flax

Callistemon, the flower may look like a toilet-bowl brush, but it smells so nice!

 Callistemon is a fabulous shrub that also does great in cities

White willow, a light, breezy willow to line riverbeds and lakes

 White willow branch with catkins against a silver body of water

King of vegetables? The Tomato, of course!

 New varieties of tomatoes produced every year show how important this king of vegetables is for us

Beech, a tall, smooth-skinned gigantic shade tree

 Large, straight beech tree

Imperata cylindrica, a colonizer with blood-red blades… of grass!

 Native and invasive range of Imperata cylindrica

Dandelion, more than just a weed

 Field full of dandelions

Chayote, a run-around vine that’s edible all around

 Chayote vine with fruits

How to stake tomatoes – cages, twine or poles?

 Tomato plants with a makeshift tie and stake

Black krim tomato, a dark-skinned tomato with a rich, meaty flesh

 Black krim tomato growing on the plant

Mason bee, a solitary worker bee that burrows in the ground

 Mason bee on wood

Meet the tasty Pineapple tomato, large and round with few pips

 Pineapple tomato, a large tomato

Marram beach grass, holding the sand in place

 Marram grass against the sunset

Blue lyme grass, the sand grass that looks like rye

 Seaside view through leaves and seed pods of blue lyme grass

Ice cream tulip, the tulip that makes your mouth water… Double cone, anyone?

 Ice Cream tulip looks like an ice-cream cone with two scoops

Honey locust, a sweet giant – with massive thorns!

 Honey locust planting and care

Lacinato kale, a swarthy, dark vegetable posing as an ornamental

 Lacinato kale leaves growing lush and tall

Caucasian elm, delicate yellow leaves in fall for a hardy-proof winter

 Caucasian elm leaves

Soap from plants? Yes, our grannies were right!

 Soap plant

Zebras in the veggie patch Yup! green zebra tomato!

 Three green zebra tomatoes

Seedless tomato varieties to grow in the vegetable patch

 Seedless tomato variety

Broadcast sowing – a quick technique for large surfaces and growing beds

 Broadcast sowing, seeds in hand with dark complexion.

Bottlebrush buckeye

 Yellow leaves of bottlebrush buckeye in fall

Pozzolana, designer mulch

 Pozzolana pebbles have many tiny holes and cavities that retain water and air

Grand Vert, the basil with large, even tastier leaves

 Close-up of grand vert basil young leaves

Indigo rose, a tomato variety for small, black cocktail tomatoes

 Indigo rose tomato

Agapetes, branches arching over to display cute red bells

 Row of agapetes flowers seen from the front view (Himalayan lantern)

Treatment against Otiorhynchus larvae

 Otiorynchus larva in the ground, like a short white worm or caterpillar

Medicinal angelica, a delicious garden spice

 Medicinal angelica flower head

Maiden pink, flower-bearing and fragrant

 Bush full of maiden pink flowers (dianthus deltoides)

Bumblebee, bumbling along and heavyweight pollinator

 Bumblebee hovering near a flower

Leucojum vernum, a bulb flower as cute as a spring snowflake

 Spring snowflake close up, leucojum vernum

Avoiding mold on food

 A plate with molding food like apples, prunes and tomato.

Basella, a spinach look-and-taste-alike

 Basella, the indian spinach, leaves and stem

Holboellia, advice on caring for this evergreen vine

 Holbeollia is a fabulous evergreen vine that densely covers fences

After the holidays, back to the garden!

 Allium flowers in a garden after the summer break

Aconite, Jupiter’s helm, like an army of helmsmen on the march!

 Aconite flower

Tomato early blight, the dreaded Alternaria fungus: alternatives to beat it

 Black necrosis on leaves with a yellow border are the marks of alternaria, or early blight, on tomato plants

Anaphalis, pearly everlasting, a drought-loving plant that blooms without water

 Pearly everlasting, a flower that can cope with drought

Aphids and ants on hibiscus killing off flower buds

 Aphids on a hibiscus flower

Air-layering lavender: root your lavender stems in pouches of soil on the plant

 Air-layering lavender, a how-to with pictures

Centaurea, a cluster of color for hard-to-flower areas

 Centaury, centaurea

Kniphofia, like a flaming sword thrust from below earth

 Kniphofia fllowers blazing like fire

Pruning tomato plants, let those shears run loose!

 Tips and tricks to get the pruning of your tomato plants right