Joe's Orchids & Perennials

This past weekend I had the opportunity to buy some orchids, the first in a couple months. Actually, it was a pair of opportunities. AOS jud...

What a summer! I worked full-time this summer at a local nursery. I was so busy between work and all of my interests, that I did not get the...

Native plants can bring so much beauty to your garden, sometimes beauty you wouldn't expect. Corydalis aurea (golden corydalis) is one o...

The tiny, double white flowers of Sanguinaria canadensis f. multiplex 'Plena' (double bloodroot) remind me of little waterlilies. Pr...

Here is the newest section of my alpine/rockery garden, which I started work on last fall. Now that the ground is thawed, I have started the...

The alpine garden is always host to the first emerging plants in my yard. I am expanding this section of my garden currently, and there are ...

Some of my early started bulbs (top) and vegetable seeds (bottom) are spending the afternoon outside in the warm sunlight, in my cluttered ...

It has been mostly quite warm the past week, with above average temperatures (although we went from afternoon thundershowers the other day t...

Paph bellatulum, pictured here, is one of the more challenging Paph species to grow. It is from subgenus Brachypetalum, which is well-known...

This is Phrag Memoria Dick Clements, one of the earlier Phrag besseae hybrids and likely the first red hybrid. While I have never been a hu...

Spring is definitely here where I live - it is 14 C outside and the snow is melting away! Soon early spring flowers will poke out of the gr...

This is the same Paph. delenatii that I posted on some weeks ago. The first flower on the spike was malformed, with two pouches. This one i...

Finally my garden has seen some decent spring weather the past week, and the snow is finally receding. As more and more patches of bare ear...

This is a new albino Maudiae hybrid, and likely my favorite of this breeding group. I love the way the dorsal ends in a sharp point, and th...

Illustrated above are two separate specimens of the same species - Paph villosum. You can see the variation possible within this species. P...

Cypripedium reginae, or showy lady's slipper, is a native Canadian orchid whose range extends from Saskatchewan into the maritimes, and...

This past weekend was my local orchid society's annual show and sale. I picked up the following plants: Paph Yi-Ying Golden Slipper (in ...

It has now been a month since the first photo was taken of this plant, on its way to flowering for the first time. Atop a now 8" spike,...

I like to grow amaryllis bulbs during the winter; they are some of the most beautiful indoor plants and are very easy to care for, and you ...

It has now been two weeks since I first pictured this plant (in sheath), and the spike is now about 3 inches long.