P&B’s Garden

I am in Love with Bulbs !!

Each time I watch a bulb bloom …..I am so amazed.

This amaryllis bulb bloomed late this year but gave us such a nice burst of color in our front hallway when everything else outside was dormant.

Sweet Winter Paperwhites Ring in a Happy New Year !!

Every year I force paper whites during the Thanksgiving weekend so I have a bouquet of fragrant winter beauties blooming in time for the Christmas holiday.

The bud is exquisite and a true miracle in itself.  It is simply amazing to me how any bulb can produce a flower.

These smiling paper whites are a member [...]

Snow in the Garden

We were all surprised in Big D when it snowed on Christmas Eve!!!
What a treat for us ol’ Chicagoans………

And, the garden never looked more beautiful with its lovely blanket of white snow.

Looking out the window……..

we saw such lovely scenes throughout the garden on this wintery day.

What a perfect memory !!  Merry Christmas [...]

Delightful and Surprising Ornamental Kale

You would never know that this plant that looks like a cabbage head all winter long will surprise you in the early spring with a tall lovely yellow flower coming out from the center.  I put one on each side of my roses and throughout my garden for winter color and then look forward to [...]

Sweet Paperwhites in Full Bloom

This year I grew the most incredible paperwhites but the best part was sharing them with my sister-in-law Debbie who was visiting from Scottsdale.  She enjoyed taking pictures of the different stages the flowers were in as much as I did.   I got them planted late this year so they did not go into [...]

Christmas Blooms – Exquisite !!

Red Lion Amaryllis
Christmas 2008
This year I planted a Red Lion Amaryllis Bulb for Christmas and it is just breathtaking.  It was so much fun to watch it grow each day and I was just amazed at this miracle.
I found a good video of Martha Stewart demonstrating how to plant Amaryllis Bulbs and pasted it below [...]