Old Fashioned Hellebore Advice
Old fashioned, but accurate, advice about hellebores.
Time For Daylilies
The Midseason Stalwart As we end June and begin heading into the Fourth of July holiday, it is time for Hemerocallis, or “daylilies”to bloom. They really come into their glory at this time, bridging the rose and the Lilium (true lily) bulbs. Not really a...
New Breeds Of Coreopsis
Many of the gardening books I read some thirty-odd years ago sang the praises of Coreopsis verticullata. I listened and planted ‘Golden Shower’ (which is also known as ‘Grandiflora’). It performed as promised and became a well loved perennial...
White True Geranium, Geranium Sanguineum ‘Album’
Here is another plant whose names have confused gardeners. Not just the appellation of “Geranium”, this being the true one in contrast to a Pelargonium, but it has undergone some botanist changes since the time I first bought it. Geranium lancastriense...
Five Favorite Flowers For Fall, Late Season Perennials
5 Fall Blooming Plants Fall can have plenty of blooming beauty if you plan ahead and group some late season perennials in proximity to each other. These can be astonishingly gorgeous plants. That is the secret of a great perennial border: plenty of plants that bloom...Join Me In The Garden
