“Louis Raymond experiments in his own gardens likea mad scientist, searching out plants that most people have
never seen before & figuring out how to make them perform.” - The Boston Globe
“…Louis Raymond ensures that trees can grow in Brooklyn…or just about any other place where concrete consumes
the dirt and skyscrapers shield the sunshine.” - USA Today
Louis tries to capture the exact words to describe the fleeting but deep pleasures to be found in these Summer-into-Autumn incredibles.
Allergic to bees? You can still have an exciting garden, full of flowers and color and wildlife.
Five days from the first picture of April 19, and we've had some warmth and (just as important) a serious rain. It takes a lot of water to inflate the large leaves. And—who knows?—maybe it takes some special energy to turn them pink too.
In a cool greenhouse meant only for overwintering everything from the Summer gardens, mere survival is the only goal. It's a special treat when some plants can't resist bursting in bloom anyway.
Like these yellow flower sprays that share their clunky name, surely, with a hand-on-hip sassy-mouthed Southern domestic from a Myra Loy movie of the Thirties: Bulbine. "Bul-BEAN"....
On a day of chilly drizzle, some plants provide their own light. Handily, these first-of-Spring sprouts are the most high-wattage of the season, just when they're needed the most.
Every April, strange almost alien green eggs appear atop the gravel at the shady side of the driveway. When they open up into spheres of countless cream flowers here, they don't look much less alien. In fact, they look more like the compound insect-like eyes of some unknowable but intensely-observant Other than actual flowers.
Well, let 'em look.
