Gardening Tips

The fall blooming Camellia, also known as Camellia sasanqua, brings both beautiful glossy evergreen leaves to the gardens but it also brings beautiful flowers in shades of bright red, pinks and whites. These cold-tolerant, lightly fragrant flowers bloom from September...

October still has enough warm days for many late fall herbaceous perennials to bloom, and one favorite is the purple cone flower (Echinacea purpurea), which has daisy shaped flowers that have a spiny center cone that is surrounded by pink-purple ray petals that can...

American Beautyberry or Callicarpa americana is a wonderful native shrub that greets spring with fragrant, bright green foliage that sit opposite each other on long slender arching stems. The leaves can grow 3-6 inches long and 1-3 inches wide with a pointed tip and...

The heat of summer does not hurt our native garden phlox which thrives in full sun and rich, moist organic soils. The native soft pink to purple garden phlox is susceptible to powdery mildew but there are a lot of wonderful new nativars that are resistant to that leaf...

Agastache Blue Fortune is also called Hummingbird Mint because when Blue Fortune blooms, the brightly colored hummingbirds visit the fragrant nectar rich flowers. The tiny tubular flowers line up and around of the top of the 3 to 5 inches of the flower spikes, looking...

Lanceleaf Coreopsis is a lovely upright herbaceous native plant that thrives in full sun and moist but well drained soils. It is very tolerant of heat, humidity, drought, poor and or dry soils and deer are not likely to nibble either the leaves or flowers. Like a lot...

Tree peonies or Paeonia suffruticosa are a close relative of the herbaceous or garden peony, but are considered shrubs because the stems do not die back in the winter. They can grow 3-5 feet tall and 3-4 feet wide in full sun to part afternoon shade and moist,...

Some plants have it all, spring flowers, summer foliage, fall color and winter interest. The Viburnum carlesii, or the Spicebush Viburnum is a lovely deciduous shrub with silver gray branches that spread out near the ground and upwards in a loose rounded habit. In...

One of the first flowers to brighten the landscape and gardens in the spring are the daffodils, with their cheerful bright yellow crown and center trumpet, framed by their dark green slender leaves. Daffodils need to be planted in the autumn when the daytime...

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...