Gardening Inside

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Sandy of Pollenatrix posts about all the lovely things she is growing inside. Scroll down the blog for some photos of her orchids. A wonderful balm of color to snow-overloaded eyes. It’s almost as good as going into Lowe’s greenhouse. (Yes, most of my thrills are cheap thrills.)

About the Author

Kathy Purdy is a colchicum evangelist, converting unsuspecting gardeners into colchicophiles. She gardens in rural upstate NY, which used to be USDA Hardiness Zone 4 but is now Zone 5. Kathy’s been writing since 4th grade, gardening since high school, and blogging since 2002. Find her on Instagram as kopurdy.

What differentiates a bulb from a perennial plant is that the nourishment for the flower is stored within the bulb itself.…There is something miraculous about the way that a little grenade of dried up tissue can explode into a complete flower.

~Monty Don in The Complete Gardener pp. 142

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