Posted by Radovan Hajek, US Perennials on 2nd Feb 2021
It’s wonderful that Botanic Garden and Research Center Mt.
Cuba in Delaware runs their trial gardens. One of many reasons, why
this place was voted the Best BotanicGarden in 2020.Quite recently Mt. Cuba started to observe attractiveness for
pollinators on the trialed plants. This is a difficult, maybe debatable task...Do the plants only attract or truly support the pollinators? There is still a lot of unknown, especially about the quality of n… Read more
Posted by Jackie Finch, Herald-Times, 08/29/2020, Bloomington, IN on 6th Jan 2021
Growing up in the Czech Republic, Radovan “Rad” Hajek loved to watch
his grandmother work in her colorful flower garden. “Since I can
remember, being about 4, she always had a beautiful front garden full of
flowers, perennials and annuals,” he says.“One of my very early
memories with flowers was drawing pictures on the concrete with the
flower buds of spiderwort, Californian poppies and moss rose,” he adds.Rad also would trail along aft… Read more
Posted by czechgardener on 17th Mar 2019
Originally posted on January 3, 2018 on www.czechgardener.comHallo Hoosier, Midwest and all the gardeners,cold arctic air attacked eastern part of USA and sits here since
Christmas 2017. Temperatures dropping to minus 24° C (lower then minus
7° Fahrenheit) really keep me inside. Except the fact, this is great
time to rest, hibernate and also plan works for the spring season, it is
also time to contemplate and maybe speculate too. There is… Read more
Posted by czechgardener on 15th Mar 2019
Published November 18, 2017 on www.czechgardener.comjavascript:;Hallo Northwest and Hoosier gardeners and native plants lover,time to write some little post! I can’t say that the annual INPAWS
(Indiana Native Plants and Wildflower Society) caused it. It just
re-opened my eyes. I visited annual conference 3 years ago and then this
autumn again. Both were excellent – complete in it’s possible wide
range from applied science (phenology, Dr.… Read more