Brad and I went to a free concert last night. It’s been a long time since we’ve gone to something so loud with front row seats. We were surrounded by the rumble and brilliance of the thunder and lightning. I just went in my work clothes, dirty from a day in the field, and Brad [...]

By mid morning my shirt was a different, darker brown, the only kind of color change that takes place when you are doing your laundry, caught in a rain shower, or drenched in sweat. The sad thing was that is was only 10AM. Either I’m not in shape like I used to be or it’s [...]

Last week I was in California for several reasons, but I will stay focused on the horticulture aspects of the visit. I will say that I ended up with a meeting on Route 66. Ironically, in a month I will have another meeting on Route 66, but it will be in Oklahoma City for the [...]

I was very careful when it rained earlier this summer never to complain. It was too much at times, but I have never forgotten what Texas summers are like. Seven summers ago, a week before I started my freshmen experience at the Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M;, my brother decided I was to help [...]

One of our favorite rain lilies is just beginning to open up. It is a pink one by the name of Zephyrantes labufarosea. Ours seem to bloom late summer into mid fall, but other growers have had success from the beginning of the summer all the way into the fall. There are also different spellings [...]

Brad has released the latest edition of Bulb Hunter Monthly, that offers free shipping on our spring products. Be on the look out for Zephyrantes grandiflora and Zephyranthes ‘Prairie Sunset.’ We also posted a new video with Dr. Welch talking about the Lycoris squamigera blooming at his garden in Louisiana. I don’t think the video [...]

Since Monday, life has moved fast, and maybe that is a good thing. Tuesday the photographer (Dave Shafer of Dave Shafer Photography) for a magazine shoot showed up, and we didn’t slow down until the dinner party at the cabin that evening. We have a large garden group coming on an official tour this Spring [...]