Gardens, both old and new, cannot be what they are unless Phloxes are present in all their brilliant colors to enliven the Summer months just before the Fall flowers come into bloom and after th...
Pyrethrum – Pink Daisy, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
The form of the Daisy is admired by all, so that it is strange that more persons do not grow the lovely Daisies known as Pyrethrums. The flowers are bright in color and are borne on long stems. ...
Sedum – Stonecrop, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Sedum – Stonecrop
If there is a rocky spot in your garden you will desire a number of sorts of Sedums, for they are most interesting in habit, leaf and flower. Sedums are wild with u...
Cactus, Hardy – Opuntia, Echinocactus, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Cactus, Hardy – Opuntia, Echinocactus
The Cacti, as everyone knows, are plants with thick, fleshy stems covered with spines, for usually there are no leaves. The Opuntias, which are per...
Physostegia – American Heather, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
The False Dragon Head (Physostegia virginiana) is another one of the few August blooming plants. It is extremely beautiful with spikes of rosy pink, lilac, or white flowers, which are tube-shape...
Hypericum – St. John’s Wort, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Hypericum – St. John’s Wort, Aaron’s Beard, Gold Flower
Literally speaking, these flowers either seem to be made of gold or to be holding the golden rays of sunlight ...
Baptisia – False Indigo, Wild Indigo, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Baptisia – False Indigo, Wild Indigo
The Baptisias are strong growing plants with yellow, white, and dark blue flowers which somewhat resemble the Lupine, being pea shaped. The f...
Cerastium – Snow-in-Summer, Mouse-ear Chickweed, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Snow-in-Summer is surely a very descriptive name for this low growing, white flowered and silvery foliaged plant. There are myriads of small white flowers produced in June from a dense mat of gro...
Hollyhock: A Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
A constant, old-fashioned garden favorite! Hollyhocks have been universally admired for hundreds of years. They are stately, majestic, towering plants that add beauty wherever they are grown. Wh...
Thalictrum – Meadow Rue, Feathered Columbine, Perennials Guide to Planting Flowers
Thalictrum – Meadow Rue, Feathered Columbine
These graceful, feathery flowers add an airy appearance to the border of perennials. The leaves are fine and resemble the foliage ...