Category: Ginny Rosenkranz

Cornus florida is the botanical name of a beautiful flowering dogwood that graces our native woodlands and our landscapes. The best way to keep the dogwoods healthy is to find a place to plant them close to where they like to...

October is the month that the grasses change color from green, blue-green or gold-green to amber, purple or golden yellow and transform tiny flowers to beautiful seed heads. These are not the lawn grasses but the grasses that...

Dawn Redwood is an interesting tree that looks like it should be an evergreen but loses its leaves every fall and grows new foliage every spring. It looks very similar to the native Bald Cypress in the size and shape of the tree...

New York Asters, sometimes called “Michaelmas daisy, ”are native plants that burst into bloom in August filling the late summer gardens with daisy-shaped flowers in blues, purples, pinks and white — and some of them have double...

Hydrangea paniculata, or the “Panicle Hydrangea,” is one of the most cold hardy of all the hydrangea — and because they bloom on current seasons growth, they are guaranteed to bloom every summer. These beautiful shrubs grow...