Gardening Tips

Monarda punctata, or “BeeBop,” is also known as dotted beebalm and will thrive on our Eastern Shore in sandy soils with moisture and full sun. Once established, dotted beebalm becomes more drought tolerant, but will always flower better and are less susceptible to...

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...

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...

There are not many plants other than annuals that will flower from summer into frost, but there are a few wonderful herbaceous perennials that live for quite a while and will bloom from summer until the first hard frost. Agastache “Blue Fortune,” also called “giant...

Tree Peonies bloom two weeks before the herbaceous perennial peonies, and then there is a new hybrid peony called Bartzella Itoh Peony, which blooms along with the herbaceous perennial peonies. The blooms are large bright yellow many petal with red flush in the center...

Epimedium sulphureum or “Bishops Hat” is a shade loving deciduous groundcover that can thrive under the shade of maple trees. The plants only grow a foot tall and spread about a foot and a half wide. In early spring, the new heart shaped foliage emerges a light green...

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...