Caryopteris – Blue Spiraea
This Blue Spiraea is another one of the good, Fall blooming plants. It is shrubby in nature, growing from 3 feet to 4 feet tall with small leaves and clusters of ...
Iberis – Candytuft, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Iberis – Candytuft
Candytuft, a low-growing evergreen shrub, is, in reality, one of the best flowers in its class. It grows from 9 inches to 12 inches high and spreads out, making low m...
Heuchera – Fairy Flowers, Alum Root, Coral Bells, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Heuchera – Fairy Flowers, Alum Root, Coral Bells
Heucheras are among the most desirable of the smaller growing plants. There are many varieties worth growing. Of these, Heuc...
Linum – Perennial Flax, Golden Flax, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Linum – Perennial Flax, Golden Flax
Flax is a lovely, airy plant with flowers of yellow, blue and white. The general height is from 12 inches to 18 inches. The foliage and flowers ar...
Helianthus – Perennial Sunflower, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Helianthus – Perennial Sunflower
These bold perennials are so diverse in their habits that it is hoped that the reader will not come to them with prejudice ‘ because some of it...
Liatris – Blazing Star, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Liatris is a rather odd plant and merits a much more general use because it is very desirable and attractive. The Kansas Gay Feather (Lialris pycrtostachya) is the one most commonly grown an...
Spring Sweet Flowers
There are people who voluntarily spend most of their lives indoors, shut away from sunlight, fresh air and anything greener than the occasional potted plant. Those people probably do not feel the...
Basket of Easter Flowers
The flower that most often comes to mind, when we think of Easter, is the Easter lily. But there are others as well, all with rather interesting origins.
Did you know that the Easter l...
OUTER SPACE FLOWERS – Gardening
In many places in the United States columbines (Aquilegia ssp.) still grow wild. Highbrow hybrids dominate the marketplace, but even they seem to retain some of that wildness. While cleaning out...
Growers Guide for Monkeyflowers
From the Greek mimo, ape; the flowers were thought to look like a mask or monkey’s face (Scrophulariaceae). Monkeyflower, monkey musk, musk. A genus of hardy annual, half-hardy perennial, ...