Bay Area Tendrils

Trachelium caeruleum  was a v oluptuous, p rize perennial in my garden. Perhaps a tender perennial or an annual in yours? I so look...

I've always been dotty about variegated foliage. Combine splashed leaves with a flower that's so alluring and it's diffic...

Vignettes from my forays in Venice & the Veneto...  Villa Barbaro Nymphaeum:  a glassy pool and the sculptural extravagance of ...

Alice's Garden  is a rather petite plot.  Thankfully, I can expand upon the plants I insist upon cultivating by taking advantage of...

Beschorneria yuccoides (Note: This is an updated post with the spelling corrected: The plant is not blooming now,  but ... it has had pu...

Helleborus x sternii   'Hot Flash' .. photographed when the plant first bloomed in Alice's Garden . Winter-blooming  Helleb...

Statuesque  Tricyrtis lasiocarpa... [Photo © Alice Joyce] has spread widely to fill a large bed with its delightful display, a sho...

Summer Bouquet: Zinnia 'Berry Basket' - a cultivar from  Renee's Seeds  that deserves high praise! The zinnia plants hav...

Rare  Clematis tibetana,  with its delicate amber lantern-like flowers,  scrambles up the rather brittle stalks of  Cuphea ignea  in  Ali...

In a small, terracotta planter, a Stapelia plant has been growing in my garden for a number of years. Maybe I imagine that it m...

The winter garden is asleep. Photos Copyright © Alice Joyce Yet a few specimens bolster the scene of deciduous perennials and shrubs...

Aristolochia californica .. a very early blooming native vine in Alice's Garden   Photo Copyright © Alice Joyce The image of...

Will this be the final blowsy bouquet of the year? Colorful fall foliage is a cutting from  Weigela florida ' Eyecatcher' ....

A bee enjoying an Anemone: The large swathe of Japanese Anemones - a melding of 'Pamina' and 'Mont Rose,' burst forth in t...

'Apple Green' Bells of Ireland This year marks the first time I've had an opportunity to cultivate this charming, old-fashioned ...

Clash of the Wee Ones ...  A Weigela and a Geum! My tale of woe is old-hat, remarked on countless times as the amount of sunlight continues ...

It's the 6th of July and I'm in a state of bliss, filling vases with the colorfully vibrant blooms of Zinnia 'Berry Basket...

Summer has officially arrived! And the season is heralded by some of the prettiest blooms for bouquets I could conjure up, were I in the ...

One of the benches at .. Veddw in Wales I can think of no other garden element as essential as a bench: (Above: A private garden, ...