Diohio's Garden

Purchased May 2000 from The Good Earth. I first had it in a half whiskey barrel then moved it to a 20 gallon tu...

Purchased 5-04-04 from Cory's Wildflowers for $15.00. I was told that this is a rather finicky Helleborus ...

Purchased mail-order from Park Seed on 10-16-04, 5 bulbs for $2.00. They havn't been doing very well until...

Also called Liverleaf. This is a native spring wildflower here in Ohio and one of the first spring wildflowers ...

Free from Hilliard OH Plant Trade 5-20-06. Not really a milkweed. Collect seeds when pods are dry. Zone 5-9

Purchased in 1999 or 2000 for about $8. The koi uprooted it and killed it a few years later.

4-28-04 a friend gave me 3 little sticks (cuttings) from her medium-sized Golden Barberry and I brought them hom...

I first saw this rose for sale at Lowe's and fell in love with it but I didn't buy it. Soon afterward...

Free from Nancy 6-18-03. My favorite stonecrop in the garden ! It comes from Japan Zone 2-10. Beautiful bloom...

You need a male and female plant in order to get berries. I bought one of each on 9-13-04 for $2.50 each from E...

I got this plant free from Linda on 4-18-02. It is the only Dahlia that I still have. All of the others have d...

I got this baby FREE from Carolyn Wilson's Greenhouse. She divided it from her mother-plant in 1999 or 200...

Not sure if I bought this from Carolyn Wilson's greenhouse or Glasshouse Works back in 2000. I think I pai...

Bought 3 small potted trees for $1.00 each from Carolyn Wilson's greenhouse 8-28-01. I gave one tree to Ch...

Flcrazy sent me 2 seedlings on 5-01-08 !! I potted them both and had them in full sun and they seemed to be bot...

Bought May 7, 2002 for $7.50 from Dorothy Sidwell's greenhouse. Beautiful orange flooms. One of my favori...

Bought in 1998 or thereabouts from Walmart for about $8.00. It was very small then and is SO big now that I can...

Bought 8-19-02 for $2.00 from Dorothy Sidwell's greenhouse, fall sale. This plant comes from China/Korea a...

Bought 8-19-02 for $2.00 from Dorothy Sidwell's greenhouse. I have started many plants from cuttings and e...

Two cuttings were given to me back in 2002 I believe. I was lucky that the cuttings were beyond the "Y&quo...

Given to me by my friend Linda on 5-03-08. Hummers love Lantana but they don't even look at this pretty ye...

These red Canna were given to me by my boss. I have to dig them after the first killing frost in late fall. Th...

Bought 4 plants on 5-08-08 from Green Shades Greenhouses for $2.79 each. It's the best buy of the summer !...

Purchased 2000, can't remember price. It was variegated but has reverted back to solid green. From Africa...

This is a native wildflower that I purchased at Lowe's on 5-06-08 for $6.00. I transplanted it into a larg...

Bought this perennial for $1.00 from Faber's in their fall clearance in 2004. It lasted for 2 years (short...

Bought 4-01-08 from internet Katz Kountry Kuttins for $7.00. It was a nice cutting. Brugmansias are iin the S...

Bought 4-28-06 for $17.00 at the College Garden Sale. It likes wet acidic soil which is what I have. It can gr...

Free sapling from Linda in 2001. The bucks rub on it and have killed parts of this tree several winters. In su...

Bought 8-19-02 from Companion Plants for ??. Zone 5-9. **Very difficult to transplant. I moved the origional ...

Bought 8-04-03 from The Good Earth for $10.00. Mulch it well for winter........Zone 6-10.

A non-native perennial wildflower that appeared in my yard one year. We have lots of this plant along our highw...

A native wildflower that just showed up in my garden one year. I first found it at the edge of the woods along ...

I'm not sure where I origionally got my first clump from but my boss gave me another clump in 2002 or there...

Bought 2 bulbs 4-11-07 from Van Bourgondien for $3.50. Blooms June to July. Grows 14-18" tall. Zone 3-8....

Given to me by my mother in 2000. There were only 2 bulbs in 2 little pots. I didn't know that Amaryllis ...

These came up from a packet of seeds sowed in 2007. I'm shocked at how nice they are. They are BIENNIAL. ...

I bought a few Lycnhes years ago and I still find at least one per year from seed.

One of the first flowers I added to my yard after building the house. A bunch was given to me by the lady that ...

This native wildflower blooms in my yard in June. It's in the Snapdragon family and is used as a host plan...

Bought 3-29-08 Walmart 12 for $3.34. To 20" tall. Blooms late spring. Lift in fall and bring indoors (pe...

This was a gift from Sharon in about 2000. It blooms off and on all year long.

Bought 6-23-03 for .75 (cents) at Faber's. Butterflies, especially Skippers, love to nectar from it.

Hardy red Hibiscus given to me years ago (I can't remember from who). Solid red blooms

This little cutting was given to me way back around 1997 from a friend. I planted it and pretty much forgot abo...

Bought 2 in 1997 from Michigan Bulb for $15.00. It several years before it would bloom and I was about to dig i...

I was given a little clump of this yellow stonecrop years ago and now I have it all over my yard. It makes a ni...

Blue-eyed Grass is not really a grass but is in the Iris family. It's a perennial native of Ohio. There a...

Perennial native of Ohio that likes dry shade mostly in deciduous woods, or meadows. I transplanted a few from ...

Bought 4-23-03 from Seely's in Columbus for $2.99. Moved it in 2005 where it's doing better now. Bea...

A native wildflower here, but only a few ever found in my woods. I transplanted several to my yard and now they...

Free from plant trade. It has really spread in 1 year !

Bought 4-11-08 from Lowe's for $3.00. Pink color. Family is Ranunculaceae. Zone 4-9 I think.

Bought 4-11-08 at Lowe's for $3.00. Family Asteraceae.
Supposed to be perennial Zone 4-8.

Free from a plant trade. I love the variegated leaves. Flowers buds come up in late winter, very early spring ...

This wildflower likes moist places. I rescued this from a ditch near my mother's house in PA where they we...

Purchased From Seely's in Columbus on 4-23-03 for $2.99.

Bought 3-17-08 from David Austin Roses for $15.95. I saw a pic of this rose in Mikec's garden and had to h...

Bought from Walmart for a few dollars in 1998. Very fragrant !

Purchased from Walmart probably in 1997 for a few dollars. LOVE the smell !

Saved from the abandoned farm next door. It now forms a nice hedge in my side yard.

White Trout Lily is a native perennial of Ohio. It is almost identical to Yellow Trout Lily except for the colo...

Trout lily is a native perennial found in dry deciduous woods. Also called Dogtooth Violet, Adder's Tongue,...

This spring wildflower was introduced from Europe. This plant is also called "British Tobacco" becaus...

Free......a cutting from Linda's mother bush 5-07-05.

Bought 7-16-03 From Cory's Wildflowers for $6.00 dug up.

$2.00 from Lowe's Clearance Sept. 2005.

Mistflower is another native wildflower that just showed up one year and since then I've transplanted it to...

This beautiful wildflower just showed up in my yard one year and reseeds itself every year now. It's a nat...

Free from abandoned farm next door. I found the strappy leaves eaten down to the ground one spring from the dee...

Free from Linda.

Virgin's Bower is a native perennial found in shade along edges of woods. It is also called "Old Man&...

Bought 6-20-02, no record of how much but I think I got it from Carolyn Wilson's Greenhouse.

Free from Debby 1998. Spreads fast. Basal leaves are evergreen. I've spread this all over the yard in ma...

Wildflower, European import. Ox-eye Daisy contains pyrethrum, a chemical that repels insects and is used in org...

Bought 4-23-07 WalMart for $3.00. Zone 3-8. Blooms mid-summer and then again late fall. Deadhead. 12-18"...

$7.00 from Dick & Pat Henley. They lost the name tag so they gave it to me at half price.

Free 11-06-04 Dutch Gardens made an error and said they were having trouble with the color of this daylily not b...

Free from fall plant trade 9-17-05.

Free from fall plant trade 9-17-05

Free from spring plant trade 5-20-06

$8.00 from Dick & Pat. I split this huge clump with Nancy.

Free from plant trade 9-17-05 Rebloomer. Semi-evergreen. Tetraploid

Free from plant trade 5-20-06

Free from plant trade 5-21-05

$10.00 from Dick and Pat Henley. Rebloomer. Dwarf. This is a favorite !

Free from spring plant trade 5-20-06

Free from spring plant trade 5-21-05. REbloomer

Don't remember where or how much, 6-17-03.

$6.50 from Van Bourgondien 4-12-07. Goes dormant

$7.50 from Dick & Pat Henley 6-29-04.

Free from spring plant trade 5-21-05

Free from fall plant trade 9-13-04. Dwarf

Free from Linda 9-13-04. Little one (dwarf?)

Free from Nancy Fulecki 4-29-06. Tetraploid. BRIGHT orange !!

Free from plant trade 5-19-07 Dwarf.

Free from spring plant trade 5-21-05. NO BLOOMS as of 2007. This is a tiny one.

$6.00 from Cory's Wildflowers, fresh dug. 7-16-03

Free from spring plant trade 5-21-05

Free from Carrie. I'm guessing this name, she didn't know any names of the ones she gave me on 6-11-00