Aubrietia – Purple Rock Cress, False Wall Cress – Arabis Early in the Spring, our eyes search for color in the garden. We grow the Rock Cress (Axabis) for white, Golden Alyssum for yellow, and Aubrietia for purple, rose, and […]
Yucca – Adam’s Needle and Thread, Spanish Bayonet, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Yucca – Adam’s Needle and Thread, Spanish Bayonet The stiff, broad, sword-shaped leaves of Yucca ,filamenlosa are familiar to all. In Midsummer the flower stalks, rising to a height of 6 feet, are also familiar. The flowers are white and pendulous. […]
Gaillardia – Blanket Flower, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Gaillardia – Blanket Flower The satisfactory Blanket Flowers deserve a place in all gardens. They are showy, bloom under adverse conditions and are easy of culture. The great improvement in colors which has gone on in recent years is marvelous. […]
Gypsophila – Baby’s Breath, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Gypsophila – Baby’s Breath, Chalk Plant, Gauze Flower, Fairies’ Breath The Gypsophila is one of the daintiest of the old-fashioned flowers with a misty grace which is not found in other flowers. The flowers themselves are tiny, white or blush-white […]
Heather – Heath, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Heather – Heath The American finds it almost unholy to write of Heather because his remarks may be read by a Scotchman who might wonder by what right an American obtained permission to discuss these bonny plants. There are a […]
Trollius – Globe Flower, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Trollius – Globe Flower The Globe Flower is a glorified Buttercup; its leaves and flowers resemble the Buttercup in form but are larger. Improved varieties have orange, gold, orange-red and lemon-colored flowers, often double. The commonest species is Trollius […]
Polygonum – Knot-Grass, KnotWeed, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
The Knot Weed is a very ornamental plant for any garden because the foliage is so beautifully tinted in Autumn. Some of the varieties grow very high and greatly resemble Bamboo in growth. Polygonum sochalinense is one of this type, […]
Perennial Flowers in my garden
Information on 50+ Perennials Perennial Flower Garden – How to Common Name Latin Aaron’s Beard Accommodation Flower Adam’s Needle Alkanet Allegheny Vine Althaea Alum Root American Heather American Senna Astilbe Avens Baby’s Breath Barrenwort Basket of Gold Beard Tongue Bee […]
Hibiscus – Marsh Mallow, Swamp Rose Mallow, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Hibiscus – Marsh Mallow, Swamp Rose Mallow, Mallow Marvels The perennial Mallows bear some of the largest flowers of any of our perennials and present a gorgeous sight when in bloom. They grow from 3 feet to 8 feet tall […]
Planning and Planting a Perennial border
No single word or term has yet been accepted to cover garden plants, as distinct from bulbs and shrubs, which flower year after year. `Herbaceous plants’, ‘hardy perennials’, `border plants’ are all inadequate or inaccurate in some respect. Strictly speaking, […]