Arabis – Rock Cress, Wall Cress
The Rock Cress is a small, white, four-petaled flower, and its masses of snowy bloom early in the Spring contrast beautifully with the Basket of Gold (Al...
Macleaya cordata – Plume Poppy, Tree Celandine, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Plume poppy, Macleaya cordata, Bocconia, Tree Celandine
The Plume Poppy (Bocconia cordata, Macleaya cordata) is perhaps one of the most imposing plants of the hardy border, for it grows fr...
Plumbago – Leadwort, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Plumbago Larpenlx or Ceratostigma plumbaginoides is one of the very late blooming small border plants. Because it is such a persistent blooming plant from July until freezing weather in the Wint...
Callirhoe – Poppy Mallow, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Callirhoe – Poppy Mallow
The Poppy Mallow has long, trailing stems with many saucer shaped or Poppy-shaped flowers. These flowers are borne in the axils of the leaves and vary in color from...
Summer Forget-me-not, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Summer Forget-me-not planting care
One of the colors which all amateur gardeners wish is a good, strong blue, one which does not fade easily but which holds its own. Anchusas when planted in larg...
Doronicum – Leopard’s Bane, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Doronicum – Leopard’s Bane
The Leopard’s Bane is one of the few hardy plants which blossom very early in the Spring and continues into the Autumn. It grows about 2 fe...
Lychnis – Rose Campion, Mullein Pink, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
For the different parts of one’s garden there are many good varieties of Lychnis. Two of these are known as Agrostemma. Double Ragged Robin and Cuckoo Flower are both common names of Agrost...
Delphinium – Larkspur, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Delphinium – Larkspur
Old John Parkinson, nearly 300 years ago, wrote “Wee call them in English Larkes heeles, Larkes spumes, Larkes toes or claws.” The Larkspur is s...
Guem – Avens, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Among our pernicious weeds is one whose seeds are provided with hooks which catch in our clothing when on a Summer walk through the woods. This is a Geum. It is a surprise, therefore, to find sev...
Dicentra – Bleeding Heart, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
The grace of the Dicentras charms us whether in the woods or the garden.
The Bleeding Heart, Dicentra spectabilis is one of our most showy old-fashioned flowers which everyone loves. I...