Category: Ginny Rosenkranz

August is usually a hot and dry month and sometimes it seems that very few plants are blooming in the gardens. It may be hot and dry but there are some very lovely plants that bloom with huge and often brilliantly colored...

Butterfly flower or Asclepia tuberosa used to be called the Butterfly weed, which never seemed right for this brightly colored flower that offers so much for the Monarch butterfly. It’s very nice that this herbaceous perennial...

Blue false Indigo or Baptisia australis is a lovely herbaceous perennial plant that waits until the spring warms the earth before emerging with a large clump of soft colored blue green clover like leaves in May. Each leaf is...

If your garden has a bit of shade, there is a wonderful small native plant that blooms in May with lovely heart-shaped leaves that thrive all summer long. Tiarella cordifolia’s common name is Heartleaf foamflower because when...

April is finally warm enough to encourage the tulips to emerge from the ground and spread their beautiful, colorful rainbow of flowers. Tulips are originally from Asia Minor where the wild ones still grow and bloom on the...