"There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with the high defiance of nature herself, creating, in the very face of her chaos and tornado, the bower of roses and the pride of irises. It sonds very well to garden a 'natural way.' You may see the natural way in any desert, any swamp, any leech-filled laurel hell. Defiance, on the other hand, is what makes gardeners."
Henry Mitchell, "On the Defiance of Gardeners", from The Essential Earthman.



Abelia x grandiflora  Glossy Abelia 
 Aronia arbutifilia Red Chokeberry 
 Chionanthus retusus Chinese Fringe Tree 
 Chionanthus virginicus White Fringe Tree 
 Cornus Kousa Dogwood 
 Elaeagnus commutata Silverberry 
 Euonymus hamiltonianus Yeddo Euonymus 
 Franklinia altamaha Franklin Tree 
 Gleditsia triacanthos (f. inermis) Common Honey Locust 
 Gymnocladus dioicus Kentucky Coffeetree 
 Heptacodium miconiodes  Seven-son flower 
 Koelreuteria bipinnata  Goldenrain tree 
 Koelreuteria paniculata  Panicled goldenraintree 
 Magnolia grandiflolia Southern Magnolia 
 Magnolia tripetala Umbrella Magnolia 
 Poncirus trifoliata  Hardy-orange 
 Rhodotypos scandens Black jetbead 
 Staphylea colchica Bladdernut 
 Staphylea trifolia Bladdernut 
 Tetradium daniellii Korean tetradium, Bee tree (formerly Evodia danielli)
 Ulmus parvifolia Chinese Elm 
 Zanthoxylum simulans  Flatspine Prickly-ash       
THE VIEW  -- Liriodendron tulipifera, Cornus florida Tuliptree, Tulip Poplar, Yellow Poplar, Flowering Dogwood 

"The wonder of gardening is that one becomes ia gardener by becoming a gardener.  Horticulture is sometimes described as a science, sometimes as an art, but the truth is that it is neither, though it partakes of both.  It is more like falling in love, something that escapes all logic."   The Gardeners Eye, Allen Lacy

Abelia x grandiflora   Glossy Abelia 
 Aronia arbutifilia Red Chokeberry 
 Aronia melanocarpa Black Chokeberry 
 Chaenomeles speciosa Common flowering quince 
 Franklinia altamaha Franklin Tree 
 Gleditsia triacanthos (f. inermis) Common Honey Locust 
 Gymnocladus dioicus Kentucky Coffeetree - According to Dirr:- "The leaves and seeds are poisonous to man, cattle.  Roasting the seed may destroy its toxic principals. I mention this because in my youth I ate the sweetish gummy substance that lined the inside of the pod.  Maybe that's what's wrong with me today." 
 Heptacodium miconiodes  Seven-son flower 
 Koelreuteria bipinnata  Goldenrain tree 
 Koelreuteria paniculata  Panicled goldenraintree 
 Lespedeza thunbergii Thuynberg Lespedeza 
 Magnolia grandiflolia Southern Magnolia 
 Magnolia macrophylla  bigleaf magnolia 
 Magnolia tripetala Umbrella Magnolia 
 Poncirus trifoliata  Hardy-orange 
 Tetradium daniellii Korean tetradium, Bee tree (formerly Evodia danielli)
 Zanthoxylum simulans  Flatspine Prickly-ash

 THE VIEW  -- Liriodendron tulipifera, Cornus florida Tuliptree, Tulip Poplar, Yellow Poplar, Flowering Dogwood 

"I have been gardening now for over thirty years.  I have prowled around parks and pleasances in many corners of the earth and have read as widely as most: and yet, still they come, the new discoveries, the unknown beauties, like fresh young dancers who suddenly drift on to the stage as the ballet is drawing to a close."   Garden Open Today, Beverly Nichols

Abelia x grandiflora  Glossy Abelia 
 Chaenomeles speciosa Common flowering quince 
 Franklinia altamaha Franklin Tree 
 Heptacodium miconiodes  Seven-son flower 
 Koelreuteria bipinnata  Goldenrain tree 
 Koelreuteria paniculata  Panicled goldenraintree 
 Lespedeza thunbergii Lespedeza 
 Magnolia macrophylla  bigleaf magnolia 
 Magnolia tripetala Umbrella Magnolia 
 Poncirus trifoliata  Hardy-orange 
 Zanthoxylum simulans  Flatspine Prickly-ash
 THE VIEW  -- Liriodendron tulipifera Tuliptree, Tulip Poplar, Yellow Poplar 

"Let no one be discourgaged by how much there is to learn.  Looking back upon nearly thirty years of gardening .... each new step becomes a little surer, and each new grasp a little firmer, til, little by little, comes the power of intelligent combinations, the nearest thing we can kow to the mighty force of creation."   Wood and Gaden, Gertrude Jekyll

Abelia x grandiflora  Glossy Abelia 
 Heptacodium miconiodes  Seven-son flower 
 Koelreuteria bipinnata  Goldenrain tree 
 Koelreuteria paniculata  Panicled goldenraintree 
 Magnolia macrophylla  bigleaf magnolia 
 Poncirus trifoliata  Hardy-orange 
 Zanthoxylum simulans  Flatspine Prickly-ash