Coreopsis – Tickseed
Coreopsis is surely one plant that should be in every garden as it is one of the most popular hardy, yellow flowers. The common name, Tickseed, is very appropriate beca...
Papaver – Oriental Poppy, Iceland Poppy, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Papaver – Oriental Poppy, Iceland Poppy
There are Poppies and Poppies, old-fashioned ones and new varieties, and it would almost seem that they grow more dazzling and more gorgeo...
Helenium – Sneezeweed, Helen’s Flower, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
The Heleniums are tall growing autumnal plants which are closely related to the Sunflower. The blooming period is from June to the end of September and during this time the plants are covered wit...
Geranium – Cranesbill, Herb Robert, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Geranium – Cranesbill, Herb Robert
The plants, usually called Geraniums, are really Pelargoniums and do not come within the scope of this book. The true Geraniums are hardy perennial...
Gentiana – Gentian, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Gentiana – Gentian
There are almost as many Gentians in poems and books about flowers as there are real Gentians in the woods. Two sorts are to be found by much hunting...
Hemerocallis – DayLily, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
During the early Summer months, the roadsides, railroad tracks, and banks of streams are brightened immensely when the Orange Day Lilies come into bloom. They grow so freely and in so many out o...
Campanula – Bellflower, Canterbury Bell, Harebell, Peach Bell, Bluebell, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
There is hardly a group of flowers which possess such rare beauty as does the large genus of Campanulas. There are many sorts, some growing inches high and some from 4 feet to 6 feet high, but al...
Bellis – English Daisy, Herb Margaret, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Bellis – English Daisy, Herb Margaret
The Daisy of Europe is the one of which we speak here. Who has not read the words of Burns and Wordsworth, and having read, who has not admired the...
Lobelia, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Natives of our woods, in bosky places we find two exquisite wild Lobelias, the Cardinal Flower, Lobelia cardinalis, and the Great Lobelia, L. syphililica, a blue sort. Both sorts vary greatly in...
Stokesia – Stokes Aster, Cornflower Aster, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Stokesia – Stokes Aster, Cornflower Aster
Generally we do not think of a China Aster resembling a Cornflower, but it is true that the Stokesia resembles them both. Stokesia Iaevis (c...