After Helen of Troy ; according to legend the flowers sprang from her tears (Compositae). Sneezeweed. Hardy herbaceous perennials from North America, good for cutting and popularly grown for the...
SHOE FLIES AND CHINESE LANTERNS – Gardening
The catalogs are a little slimmer this year, but they are still full of the hope and glory of spring and summer. Flowers, vegetables, fruits and herbs burst forth from the pages, each better than...
Plumbago Passion
I am very prone to love at first sight. In fact, it happened just last week. I saw a tall southerner “across a crowded room”, as the song says. My heart stood still (as another song ...
ALIAS PRIMROSE
When I moved into my house in mid-February a year and a half ago, one of the first things I did was to walk around the yard, and try to figure out what the previous owner had planted. The winter...
Why we plant a trees
We plant trees for their beauty of leaf, whether green in Summer or red in the Autumn; for their bark which becomes particularly fascinating. We plant trees because we love them. ...
Selecting a tree for your local Town
In his classic book Mormon Country, author Wallace Stegner noted that nineteenth century Mormons planted rows of Lombardy poplar trees wherever they established settlements in the territory that...
Basket plants for the Container garden
Many attractive plants are suitable for cultivation in suspended baskets. For this purpose plants of a drooping habit of growth are preferable, as their pendulous stems, falling over the sides o...
Flowering Fiesta Bright Colors Garden Designs
Flowering fiesta Bright Color
Helpful Hints
Subsitute Penstemon ‘Scarlet Queen’ for Physostegia ‘Vivid’ and this could be a Zone 4 collection. Pla...
Growers Guide for Starting Seeds Indoors
I have given up indoor seed starting completely on several occasions. The first time it happened I was a novice gardener. I had ordered seeds of just about every plant that I saw in the garden c...
Selecting the Correct Tree to Plant
Planting a tree takes a lot of thought. We may have to consider if we want a tree that is:
Trees decorative throughout the year Trees with outstanding inflorescences Trees with exc...