While visiting family in Fredericksburg, Virginia, one chilly February, they took me to Chatham Manor, where they had raved about the gardens. Because it was February, there wasn't much to see but the structure of the dormant garden.
I am not a native plant specialist, although when choosing plants for my garden I will lean towards plants listed as natives. In the last couple of years, I have run across the terms endemic and native in the same conversation.
At the Master Gardener Garden Tour last Sunday, several Master Gardeners gathered around a gorgeous mound of magenta flowers, snapping pictures and asking each other what kind of plant it might be. A quick Google search identified it as a Pelargonium, often mistakenly called a Geranium.
