Gardening Tips

There are some wonderful plants that add color and texture to the landscapes, especially the winter landscapes. The American Holly is a wonderful native plant for the winter garden with its shiny or dull dark green leaves that stay on the trees all winter long. There...

The Evergreen Magnolia is a wonderful tree for all seasons! It blooms in the spring with fragrant, creamy 8-12 inch white flowers and often continues to bloom through the summer. It has decorative cone-like pods that release rosy-red coated seeds that are suspended on...

The seven-son flower, or Heptacodium miconioides, is a lovely fragrant shrub that is one of the latest plants to bloom in the autumn and only grows 10-20 feet tall and 8-10 feet wide. If you have a pollinator garden or wish to invite more pollinators to your garden,...

Blue mistflower is a native herbaceous perennial (Conoclinium coelestinum) that looks like the annual Ageratum, and sometimes even called a hardy ageratum. When you see photos of the flowers you see drifts of tiny sky-blue fuzzy flowers held above the green foliage,...

August is usually a hot and dry month and sometimes it seems that very few plants are blooming in the gardens. It may be hot and dry but there are some very lovely plants that bloom with huge and often brilliantly colored flowers even in August. Hibiscus is a cultivar...

Butterfly flower or Asclepia tuberosa used to be called the Butterfly weed, which never seemed right for this brightly colored flower that offers so much for the Monarch butterfly. It’s very nice that this herbaceous perennial is now called the “butterfly flower!”...

Blue false Indigo or Baptisia australis is a lovely herbaceous perennial plant that waits until the spring warms the earth before emerging with a large clump of soft colored blue green clover like leaves in May. Each leaf is made of three leaflets, and each leaflet...

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...