Author: Janet Hickman, Virginia

Lynchburg, VA 2/2011

Bagging seed pods

I am very new to hybridizing and collecting seeds and have appreciated the advice and hints from more experiences members,  but I have a suggestion for Bill and others about protecting the seed pods so as not to lose seeds. …

classic daffodil question

Does anyone know of a daffodil called Crimpete? I am trying to identify daffodils growing the the poet Anne Spencer’s restored garden in Lynchburg, VA. When the first restoration work was done in 1983, about three dozen varieties of daffodil…

pipevine larvae

My native pipevine (Aristolochia durior or macrophylla) is a vigorous 15 foot vine but was completely defoliated by the first brood of pipevine larvae in early June.  Now, as demonstration of Nature’s interesting timing, it is regrowing its leaves just…

weed

Definitely looks like comfrey.  Borage has a brighter blue, flatter flower, is prickly, and smells like cucumber (and has seeded itself all over my herb beds this year.) Janet Janet G. Hickman, MD, FAAD 107 Lee Circle Lynchburg, VA 24503…