by Ilona | Spring, tulips
Bring the big blooms and perennial qualities of Kaufmanniana and Greigii tulips into your home landscape. Their vibrant colors make these two types of specie tulips must-haves for the spring garden. Variegated Foliage Tulips The Kaufmanniana and Greigii divisions of... 
by Ilona | Autumn, Containers
Fall for Creative Containers Bring beautiful container creations to the end of the season, don’t give up after summer! Autumn blooming flowers are sturdy enough to take some cold temperatures, and they can last longer in the season than you might expect.... 
by Ilona Erwin | Garden perennials, Spring
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... 
by Ilona Erwin | Autumn, Featured Articles, Garden Design Ideas
Inevitably, as seasons change we see, and lust for, the color focus that picture perfect plantings of fall provide. In Autumn, without a doubt, it is the rich pigment of colorful changing foliage that delights our eye. Even the bountiful blooms of chrysanthemums in... 
by Ilona Erwin | insects, Summer
Bringing beneficial insects into the garden is only part of the story. Attracting good bugs and keeping them there to control pests or pollinate plants is an important part of organic gardening practice. What Types of Insects Benefit The Garden? Praying Mantis Praying... 
by Ilona Erwin | Autumn, Butterfly Garden, Garden perennials
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...
