Greetings, OverPlanters! If you’ve read the text on the home page, then you know that this is a site for gardeners with a keen, not to say slightly obsessive, interest in ornamental plants and what to do with them. (There may be occasional forays into the realm of edibles, but ornamentals will be the mainstay.)

It may strike you as odd to launch a gardening website in the dead of winter, but look at it this way: you need some plant-related distraction after that hectic, exhausting, incongruously named period known as “the holidays.” And we’ll have plenty to talk about—there may not be much planting and weeding to do in the next few months, but there are lots of gardening-related activities we can engage in.

So take a look around; let me know if you like what you find, and what else you’d like to see. I’ll do my best to keep it fresh, interesting, and fun.

Happy 2010!

A late-season bouquet from me to you. From left to right: Salvia 'Silke's Dream', Salvia patens, Kniphofia 'Yellow Cheer', and Salvia roemeriana. (OK so I took the photo in November. Big woo.)