If one is looking for a plant a little out of the ordinary, surely the stately Lupines will fill this need, for they are among the most beautiful perennials grown. Lupinus polyphyllus is the most...
Artemisia – Wormwood, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
This group of plants, as a whole, are not generally valued for their flowers. but all have very ornamental foliage. The plants are almost as hardy as Oaks, yet are very attractive when in bloom ...
Pentstemon – Beard Tongue, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
The Pentstemons are beautiful border plants but do not do as well in the Northern States as in the Southern ones, where the climate is milder and the season of blooming is longer. They are very ...
Peony, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Peonies have captivated the world. The “old red Piney,” that charming, old-fashioned flower, is hardly as popular as it was in days now past, because the new, lovely and more delicat...
Aster – Michaelmas Daisy, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Aster – Michaelmas Daisy
The American who reads English books about gardens is thrilled by the love of the British for Michaelmas Daisies. He immediately hunts his own roadsides and ...
Daisies, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Daisies
The word “Daisy”? was formerly written Day’s Eye, and the Daisies are really well named, for there is no season in the garden when some sort of Daisy is not i...
Asclepias – Butterfly Weed, Pleurisy Root, Milkweed, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
The common Milkweeds are members of this genus of plants. Asclepias tuberosa, the Butterfly Weed, is one of the showiest and most beautiful of our native plants. The beautiful, flat-topped cluste...
Mertensia – Virginia Cowslip, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
The Virginian Cowslip is one of the loveliest of the early spring blooming plants. In rambling through the fields and woods for Violets, large clumps of these flowers can be seen growing at rand...
Echinops – Globe Thistle, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Echinops – Globe Thistle
The Globe Thistle is very interesting if one likes thorny, prickly plants. The leaves are large, deeply cut and very prickly. The stems are silver-white, whi...
Lysimachia – Loosestrife, Creeping Jenny, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Moneywort, Creeping Jenny and Creeping Charlie are all common names for Lysimachia Nummularia, which is a prostrate or creeping plant and grows very rapidly. It has very showy yellow flowers and...