Diohio's Garden

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

Great Blue Lobelia is one of my favorite native summer perennials. It just happened to appear in my yard one sp...

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...

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

I bought lotus Rosa Plina May 6, 2004 from my Koi breeder. She got her own little pool and gave me 4 blooms the...

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

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...

I first found a large patch of Miami Mist about 3 miles down the road from me, right along the edge of the road....

About 10 years ago I started caring for a stand of Common Milkweed in small overgrown field next door. From the...

I planted one in the front and one in the back. I'm getting a nice little patch in the front now. Too ear...

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

Bought 9-24-03 from The Good Earth for $6.00. Spreads by runner. I transplanted some to a sunnier spot and tha...

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

Perennial native that loves moist woods. It often grows in large colonies. The flower has very unusual fern-li...

Bought 5-12-05 from Mike (leftover College Garden Sale) for $6.00. This one may have died. We'll see in 2...

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

I bought Bullseye in 2005 for $6.00. It was small and is not doing very well.

I searched for years to find a local nursery that sold Mt. Laurel and finally in 2004 I bought my first one at W...

I bought Sarah for $6.00. I may have lost her last year so we shall soon see.

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

Bought 10-16-04 from Park Seed 3 for $2.48. Very weak stems can't hold up the flowerhead very well.

Native wildflower to Ohio, HOST plant for Eastern Comma, Queston Marck, and Red Admiral butterflies. I first fo...

One of my favorite native spring wildflowers, Showy Orchis grows in a small colony in my back woods. It has a p...

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

Who knew that there was a Passionflower that was hardy in Ohio !! I bought one about 9 years ago and then anoth...

HOST plant for Zebra Swallowtails. We're lucky to have a large Pawpaw patch in the back yard and also seve...

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

Hot pink Peony free from Linda 5-04-04

Got this one free from Linda too, 5-04-04

One of the first Garden Phloxes that I bought for the garden.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Bought 6-14-02 from Carolyn Wilson's Greenhouse for $2.00. Spreads slow. Right now I have a long row of a...

HOST plant for Spicebush Swallowtail and also Promethea moth and other moths. There is a large grove of spicebu...

Bought 6-22-03 from Col. Garden Sale for $4.00. Really showy when in full bloom. Deer will eat this plant.

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

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

This native spring wildflower is often confused with Dutchman's Breeches which grows in a similar habitat a...

This wildflower was introduced from Europe. Also called Dove's Dung, Snowdrops, Starflower and Summer Snow...

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

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...

HOST plant for Citheronia regalis, Regal moth. A native bush/small tree that came up wild in my front yard. Wh...

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

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

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

This perennial is non-native. It was introduced from Europe as a cultivated forage crop, and is widely planted ...

Also called White-flowered Trillium, and is a native perennial of Ohio. This trillium has the largest flower ou...

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

Bought 9-13-04 from Envirotech for a few dollars. Back yard

I bought this bush in spring 2007 for $16.00 from the College Garden Sale. It's supposed to be a native. ...

Bought 5-02-07 for $11.00 from Dorothy Sidwell, private Greenhouse. It's a doublefile and gets 2 rows of f...

I've found several of these growing in our back woods. They are all very short and have never bloomed. In...

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

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

One of the remaining waterlilies in my pond, that have survived the koi. Some are white while others look pale ...

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

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

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

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...

Wood Poppy is a perennial native of Ohio only growing in the eastern half of the state and there are two colonie...