A double green - flower Primula auricula , seldom seen in the US .
First , my URL has changed ( finally ! ) to www.growingwithplants.com . Welcome new readers , to my blog for people who are crazy about collecting rare and unusual works , or for mass who just love plants for any quondam ground . Hi everyone and new readers , my name is Matt Mattus , and I live and garden in my garden in Worcester , Massachusetts , one hour west of Boston , in USDA zone 5B. I assay to post every week on Sundays , and sometimes more . I have a fulltime job , and commute two hours a day , so during the calendar week I guess I am like most of you , busy , busy busy , but on the weekends , I garden . This blog is about my passion , my garden , greenhouse , and plant collection . I desire you find it interesting , since it is not just about casual gardening , since I have been a plant partisan since I was 5 years erstwhile , so things have build up ! Every year , it ’s something different , and every yr , my obsession gets worse . I passed through my daylilly and hosta phase when I was in highschool 30 years ago , so I am about due to pass through these phases again ! Now , I am in my alpine garden / bowl , rockgarden / rare Nipponese collectable industrial plant stage . With a good dash of South African Bulbs ( wintertime blooming ones ) . Yeah .. clearly this web log is for those who are bored with what is common , and to those who are look for something new to develop . I am all about impressive plantings , amazing color combinations , and garden design too , so perhaps you will get some inspiration . But mostly , I am an opinionated gardener , even a plant life snob , so prepare yourself - specially if you fuck bushel basketful florist’s chrysanthemum . Actually , there is n’t a plant I do n’t care , and in fact , I have a balmy billet for forgotten plants , violet , primula , erstwhile fashioned vintage plants … … antique iris , sweet-flavored pea plant , Dahlia pinnata , glads , annuals , so anything goes . I ask for you to calculate back at the various posting over the years , and see if it all interests you .
Some vintage alpine auricula primroses , on the back porch wait to be planted .
The beautiful high alpine primula , Primula allionii native to the the Alps .
Over the next hebdomad , you will see some change with my blog , Growing with plant . After three year , I am move the blog to the universal resource locator that reach more sense , www.growingwithplants.com SO If you have bookmarked the old Blogger Exploraculture.blogspot URL , you will require to exchange it .
Also , I have unite the garden blog site , Blotanical.com ( see right on ) . This will let me to get many more readers , and will also colligate me ( and you ) with a slew of other garden blogger ( thousands more ) , so please go check it out . I am still relatively new to this garden blogging setting , but slowly , I am make the hang of it . Although , I still need to reckon out how to respond to the great unwashed , and to spell!My alpine rampart in April , with phlox , species tulip and Androsace . To new readers of my blog , welcome , mature with works is different than most garden blogs , since it is targeted towards the plantsman ( plantswomen too ) , and to those who are more obsessed with plants . As a member of many plant life societies , this site will appeal to you especially if you like unusual or rare plants , South African Bulbs , keep a glasshouse or alpine house , grow alpine plants , incandescent lamp in pots , strange perennials or rare houseplant , beautiful rare flowers , awe-inspiring common flower that have fall out of favor , creative summertime containers or garden , and more .
I live and garden in Worcester , Massachusetts on 3 acres of land that has been in my house for over a 100 year . I keep two greenhouses , a prominent spyglass family where I grow all sorts of bulbs , south african flora , Lachenalia , Clivia , as well as many other eccentric of flora that all share the same space , and a smaller alpine house where I grow Saxifrages , Primula and various alpine treasures that postulate the protection from rain . In the garden , there are various perennial border , a depressed and gold garden , an few alpine raised beds , an fugacious garden for Corydalis and Hellebores , anemones and various woodland plant life , water gardens , crevice and rock gardens , and many more .
We also keep show pigeons , breed rare ducks , Irish Terriers , keep some tortoises , Dove , parrot and other various creature . discipline in often to see what might be new , either blooming in the greenhouse , or in the garden . As a professional designer , I journey oftentimes to Japan and Europe , and will sometimes post side trips from these locations which might be of interest , Mostly , I am a plant eccentric , an obsessive flora gatherer who moves interestingness from plant to plant , calculate on my humour . Last class I focused on Dahlias , the gold and blue garden , tuberous begonia , fragrant parma violet , and Japanese orchids . This year , it seems that I am moving towards new siberian Iris , japanese maple , flowering cacti and Haworthias , Calochortus bulbs and Pleione orchid incandescent lamp , to name a few .
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