Gardening Tips

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 the plants are in bloom, the flowers look...

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 mountain slopes. Tulips came to America in the...

Indoor plants add so much beauty in a home, but they also do an amazing job of cleaning the air we breathe, making your home healthier, and can improve your mental health. Choosing the right plant depends on the amount of sunlight that comes into the room that will...

February can be chilly, snowy or both, but many plants don’t mind the wintery weather at all. Some plants, however, do need a bit of attention if snow does drop too heavily out of the sky and onto our landscape. Boxwoods have very bendable branches, but if heavy wet...

Ferns are usually found under the shady canopy of tall trees near streams and ponds, but many can be found in warm homes all year long. Indoor ferns have delicate or sturdy green fronds that are made up of leaflets and a stem. Some ferns have arching fronds that look...

Picking out the perfect Christmas tree for the winter holidays can be a fun way to bring all the family outdoors to see what trees are available. One of the most popular of trees is the Fraser Fir, a native tree that in nature thrive only in the highest elevations on...

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...