Gardening with Gordon

Gardening with Gordon I'm a lifelong plant enthusiast who enjoys both native plantscapes and planned gardens. Yeah, I dig plants.

06/04/2026

A lonely volunteer petunia shows itself on a breezy spring day. You never know what might pop up in an unexpected spot.

06/03/2026

This is the lacecap hydrangea known as "Blue Billow." Except in one of our beds it always blooms pink...because some earlier homeowner filled that area with marble chips from a local quarry, and over time soil pH spiked dramatically. Would take a lot of excavation to change it back to normal for our area. Fortunately, this pink is also nice.

06/02/2026

"O isami" is a beautiful Japanese maple. It's starting to go red with more direct sun exposure, but if it really starts to burn I can always move it into more shade. This is the big advantage of containers vs. in-ground locations.

06/01/2026

Enjoying the flowers

05/30/2026

You can call it "Egyptian," "walking" and/or "tree" onion. All are commonly used to describe this heirloom plant that's both interesting in the garden and tasty in the kitchen. Just stick a few bulbs into the ground and then ignore until you want to either admire or harvest various parts.

05/29/2026

Do you start looking for wild Blackberries (Rubus spp.) this time of year? If so, keep an eye out for this unique caterpillar that feeds on native Blackberry leaves.

It’s called the Camouflaged Looper (Synchlora aerata), and for a good reason. To avoid predators, Camouflaged Loopers adorn themselves with fragments of the plant they’re feeding on! They clip off bits of flowers and leaves and then attach them to their back with silk. For instance, this caterpillar’s back is adorned with the pollen-bearing anthers of blackberry flowers! When the caterpillars moult or switch host plants, they even do a costume change to match their new host plant!

Camouflaged Loopers feed on a wide variety of native plants, including fleabanes (Erigeron spp.), goldenrods (Solidago spp.), coneflowers (Rudbeckia spp.), bonesets (Eupatorium spp.), and blackberries (Rubus spp.).

05/28/2026

Gardening with some of the local quadrupeds

05/26/2026

Looking for love

05/26/2026

Orange coneflower is such a cheerful bloomer in the garden. Bigger and better every year.

05/25/2026

Male Scarlet Tanagers (Piranga olivacea) have a gorgeous red and black breeding plumage. This time of year, they’re found across the Piedmont of the Carolinas and Georgia and to our north in hardwood forests. They spend most of their time high in the trees, so they’re rarely seen. Photo by Bmajoros, CC BY-SA 4.0

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