Gardening Tips

All-America Selection flowers in bloom

Winter is a time for creating the perfect garden on paper and in your imagination, whether it is a vegetable garden or a flower garden, or better yet, a vegetable garden with flowers planted in and around the vegetables to welcome the pollinators. Most annuals need to...

Snow crocus a sign of beauty in cold

There are some surprises in the gardens during this chilly time of the year, and one is the emergence of a very hardy and rather small plant, the Crocus tommasinianus or the snow crocus. Every January in my yard a small clump of snow crocus blooms, starting out by...

Rosemary, lavender spice up season

The winter holidays are often filled with baking, both sweet and savory dishes that fills the home with delicious fragrances. Winter also has special plants that reflect the spirit of the holidays, but there is always room to add other plants that will share the...

Is it a shrub or a small tree?

Summer is often considered after Labor Day, but no one told the Seven-son flower tree that. This very late blooming deciduous tree is considered either a large shrub or a small tree, growing only 10-20 feet tall and 8-10 feet wide. The tree has dark green leaves that...

No loss of variety with daylilies

Daylilies are delightful summer blooming herbaceous perennials that come in a rainbow of vibrant or soft colors, some double bloomers and some with long elegant petals. Their name says it all, the flowers open every morning and bloom all day long, closing in the...

Butterfly weed a late-blooming beauty

One of the slowest of herbaceous perennials to emerge from the soil in spring is the Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) with its bright green foliage and its sunny orange flowers, but they are well worth waiting for! These native butterfly magnets love full sun and...