Aconitum – Monkshood, Wolfsbane, Helmet Flower
Under trees, in woodlands and even in semi-wild gardens, the Aconitums, when once established, enhance the stateliness and grandeur of a place...
Digitalis – Foxglove, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Digitalis – Foxglove, Witches’ Thimbles
A well grown Foxglove in full flower is a plant of dignity and beauty. The long flowering spikes grow from 3 to 6 feet tall, rising ...
Echinacea – Purple Cone Flower, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
The bold and hearty character of the Purple Cone Flower makes it a striking plant. The flowers are rosy purple with dark, stiff, quill-like centers touched with golden crimson. Echinacea purpure...
Rudbeckia – Cone Flower, Golden Glow, Black Eyed Susan, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Rudbeckia – Cone Flower, Golden Glow, Black Eyed Susan
The garden’s gold is greatly enhanced in Autumn by the sorts of Rudbeckias, especially the Golden Glow, which is the double form...
Achillea – Milfoil, Yarrow, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Achillea – Milfoil, Yarrow
The Achilleas have proven themselves some of the most desirable plants for the garden, mainly because of their exceedingly free, yet graceful habits of growth. Th...
Adlumia fungosa – Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Adlumia fungosa – Mountain Fringe, Allegheny Vine, Climbing Fumitory .
This dainty biennial vine, native as it is in our own country, is little known. The leaves are fine and resembl...
Aquilegia – Columbine, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
The names of this flower are interesting to the garden lover with imagination. It is called Columbine, some say because the flowers appear like the cap of a court jester; others have suggested t...
Romneya – Matilija Poppy, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
A glorious miracle! Thus has the Matilija Poppy been described. With its transparent, delicate, silvery, crinkled flowers which look as if they were made of the forest white silk crepe, would th...
Salvia – Sage, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Saliva – Sage
LIGHT BLUE SALVIAS. Salvia Azurea grandiflora. This species is one of great beauty, bearing light azure colored flowers in great profusion upon tall, slender spikes. Th...
Centaurea – Knapweed, Hardy Cornflower, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Centaurea – Knapweed, Hardy Cornflower, Hardheads, Mountain Bluet
The Centaureas are some of the most graceful flowers to grow in any garden. The flower heads are like showy, ragged thistle...