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 | Small flowering bulbs, 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... 
by Ilona | Featured Articles, Garden How-To Practical Help, Garden perennials, Spring
If you need more perennial plants, but must curtail your budget, learning to multiply plants that thrive with division is the answer for you. Easy to grow perennials are simple to divide, and often require this procedure every few years. Some can be divided into many... 
by Ilona Erwin | Garden Design Ideas, Small flowering bulbs, Spring, tulips
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... 
by Ilona Erwin | about the flowers, Featured Articles, Spring
Some of my flower favorites are ephemeral plants -fleeting flowers which grace a garden and then disappear into the ground, waiting until the next year. Oriental poppies, Bleeding Hearts, Virginia Bluebells, Wildflowers of all sorts are among the numbers of perennials... 
by Ilona Erwin | shrubs, Spring
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...
