Heuchera, Native Perennial for Shade
From a supporting actor in dappled shade gardens to the bright star of foliage effects, Heuchera has come a long way with many cultivars now available that are mostly grown for their showy and colorful leaves. Contents The Look The Needs Gardening Tips Fun Facts When...
Grow Spectacular Clematis This Year
This is something of a guide to choosing some spectacular Clematis varieties, and tips on how to grow them well. For further, detailed information on planting or pruning them, Follow links to other pages on this site about the showy, clambering Clematis Big Beautiful...
Spring Flowering Spireas
If you enjoyed reading about the five choice shrubs for small gardens, no doubt the Spirea bushes stood out as some of the easiest to grow. They are the quiet supporters of the garden most of the season, but during spring they can really stand out. Spring flowering...
How To Grow and Propagate Lovely Lilacs
Lilacs are beloved old fashioned flowering shrubs grown for their fragrance. Lilac plants come in colors ranging from white to pink, and rich purples, as well as its namesake hue. Syringa vulgaris lent its common name, "lilac", to a tint of purple that is warmed by...
5 Outstanding Shrubs for Small Spaces
Planning A Small Garden: Shrubs You Will Love What makes a shrub qualify as "best small shrub" for your garden? Compact dimensions, for sure, but to add that "certain something", exciting bloom or all season interest certainly factors into the equation. For those who...
Growing 4 Lesser Known Herbs: Borage, Cilantro, Lemon Balm, Hyssop
It's time to widen your herb growing adventure with a few of the lesser known herbs. We all start with our favorites or perhaps a popular combo of herbs: the basil, parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme. What of the ones that flavor a particular cuisine or have pretty...
Making an Herb Garden in your Front Yard
Perhaps you are new to this site and haven't read my articles on making an herb garden, or perhaps you have been growing this kind of features for awhile and are looking for more information and new ideas. Growing a front yard herb garden is a natural extension of...
10 Low Maintenance Perennials
Make Life Easier with Low Maintenance Perennial Plantings Everyone needs a list of easy to grow perennials to grow in their gardens. Even if you pride yourself on being able to pepper your landscape with plants that need coddling and are rarities, the low maintenance...
Blue Mistflower, Eupatorium Coelestinum for Late Summer and Early Fall Bloom
An unfortunate mistake has lead to the writing of this plant profile. From a start my dad had given me, I had early-on grown Hardy Ageratum (AKA Blue Mistflower, recently officially labeled 'Conoclinium coelestinum'). It survived well in a poor area of the garden...
My Favorite Minor Flowering Bulbs for Spring
The Minor Flowering Bulbs I Love Along with a few stories One of the first things I wrote about for this site centered on the small, or minor, bulbs. Read it here, with the names, descriptions, and my comments on those I've grown. I wanted to further point out some of...
An Herb With Savory Flavor
A word that makes your mouth water: Savory. It names this herb plant used to flavor stuffings and roasts. Satureja has a fairly strong and peppery taste, it is mainly added to slow cooked stew and best known for pairing with beans. Easy to grow, an annual type is...
Growing the Best Ornamental Bushes with Berries
Most of thoughts about ornamental bushes gravitate towards those which bloom in the spring. We are in love with the flowers of spring, their fragrance and color. Some shrubs are even iconic of the beginning of our gardening season: lilacs, forsythias, witch hazels....
Late Summer Favorites of the Daisy Family
The Daisy family of flowers is one of the largest. Asteraceae or Compositae is named for the feature of their flower heads, a composite of individual flowers. Every season has numerous examples of this iconic flower form, and I am highlighting my garden favorites for...
20 Easy Perennials To Multiply By Division
If you need more perennial plants, but must curtail your budget, learning to multiply plants that thrive with division is the answer for you. Many plants are easy to divide, and often require it. Some can be divided into many smaller plants when buying the initial...
Specie Tulips Are Picture-Perfect in Miniature Gardens
Discover Wildling Tulips The specie tulips have a charm all their own, with the small size, but tough constitution of plants that grow in the wild. Tulipa polychroma is an example of the delicacy of the flower and form of the species class. Grown in pots makes them...
Daisy Favorites of Summer
The Daisy family of flowers is one of the largest. Asteraceae or Compositae is named for the feature of their flower heads, a composite of individual flowers. Every season has numerous examples of this iconic flower form, and I am going to highlight my garden...
Ephemerals in the Garden
Some of my flower favorites are ephemerals- fleeting flowers that grace a garden and then disappear into the ground to wait until the next year. Oriental poppies, Bleeding Hearts, Virginia Bluebells, Wildflowers of all sorts are among the numbers of perennials termed...
Dwarf ‘Tiny Wine’ Physocarpus, Ninebark Beauty in Smaller Proportions
Good News for Small Gardens Physocarpus bushes can get huge, but they have so much all-season interest and are so easy to grow that they rate a place in a garden. I grow 'Diablo' with dusky purple foliage, and now there is a dwarf variety,'Tiny Wine' Physocarpus for...
How to Grow Tall Garden Phlox for a Late Summer Garden
Most of the garden phlox are Phlox paniculata, although P. carolina 'Miss Lingard' is a good perennial for part-sun areas. These flowers are a stalwart in my estimation. I mean, by that, that this plant has good presence with showy bloom which dominate their time of...
Specie Tulips, The Botanicals
Tulipa Division 15 Ideal for Naturalizing Want something different blooming in the bulb garden? Or do you just love dainty little plants? Grow some of the wild botanical bulbs, better known as specie tulips. Specie tulips are sold in the fall as bulbs, just like their...
Blog Of All The Plant Profiles
Plant profiles began with descriptions and cultivation information for my favorite plants. It has become a library of profiles for many annuals, perennials, shrubs, and trees. If you are interested in one particular type of plant, check out Annuals, Shrubs, Trees, Perennials, and Roses .
Starting with this table of perennial flowers, following with blog list of garden plant profiles.
