Gardening Tips

March may be warm but it can also be very cold and windy. Helleborus, or Lenten Roses, are the perfect plant to have that is guaranteed to bloom despite the weather moods of March. Lenten Roses are not really roses but clump forming herbaceous perennials that have...

The All American Select vegetables are chosen for a number of reasons that can appeal to gardeners. The fruit might have more nutrition or taste better. It could be larger to produce more robust harvests, or smaller, creating personal sized fruit that will not take up...

Many look at the All American Select for the best of the independently selected plants for 2023. This New Year brings beautiful plants, both foliage and flowering, and some sweet and spicy veggies. The Coleus Premium Sun Coral Candy is a sun loving Coleus with vivid...

Christmas cactus blooms in beautiful colors of red, scarlet, pink, purple, orange and white. They can also bloom in bicolor such as pink and white or red and white or cream and pink. The Christmas cactus can also be called a “Crab cactus” because the leaf segments...

“Kashmir” Deodara Cedar is a beautiful and graceful evergreen tree that will survive our Eastern Shore winters, but more importantly, it will also survive our hot and humid summers. The “Kashmir” Cedar grows in a pyramidal shape with elegant arching branches that are...

October’s bright blue skies are a perfect backdrop for the sunny yellow flowers of the Goldenrod. They are native plants, but the newer cultivars like “Fireworks,” “Solar Cascade,” “Golden Fleece,” “Lynn Lowery” and “Gold Rush” are better behaved in the sunny garden....

Lobelia siphilitica or the Great Blue Lobelia is a native wildflower that thrives in rich and moist to wet soils in full sun to partial shade gardens. The sunnier the garden, the more moisture they will need. The plants grow in clumps about 2-3 feet tall and 1 to 1...

There is a wonderful saying that “Good things come in small packages,” and this compact plant that is covered with tiny white flowers is one of those good things! The plants name is Calamint or Calamintha nepeta subsp. nepeta, and it was honored in 2021 as the...

July is full of sun, heat and humidity — but the gardens can still thrive, and blue flowered plants can “cool off” the garden. Agastache “Blue fortune” blooms from July to September, filling the garden with tall stems that are filled with tiny soft blue tube-shaped...

Penstemon digitalis or “Husker Red” is a native perennial that loves to live in full sun with medium moist but well drained soils. In the early spring, the shiny dark red leaves emerge from the soil and they continue to grow in a mounding clump until reaching 1-2 feet...