Gardening Tips

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...

Cornus florida is a wonderful deciduous native dogwood that loves to live with morning sun and afternoon shade. These beautiful small trees live under the shade of larger trees, growing 15-30 feet tall and 15-25 feet wide. In a landscape without trees, the flowering...

April brings spring flowers long before May warms things up, so the spring flowers are often more cold-hardy. The tiny but beautiful hybrid, Dicentra “King of Hearts” features heart shaped rose red flowers and powdery blue green fern like foliage. Each bright flower...

Phalaenopsis, or the moth orchid, is one of the easiest of orchids to grow. They love to live in houses for the same reason we love to live in our homes, where there are sunny rooms and the inside temperature is between 70 to 82 degrees F. They love to live in the...