Cool Weather Annuals for the Cottage Garden
Karen Annuals provide bright color beginning in spring and are important part a cottage garden. Typically, cottage garden annuals are easy to grow, vigorous, and self-seed, requiring little care and assistance.…
Plant Profile: Dichondra ‘Silver Falls’ (Dichondra argentea ‘Silver Falls’)
Few container plants look good by the end of the summer especially when you live where high heat and humidity are the rule, but dichondra ‘Silver Falls’ is one that…
Name This Plant Game: Annual Vines 1
Chuck This simple game tests your gardening knowledge by identifying five plants shown in photos from a list of possible names. Photos of each plant are accompaned by a clue describing…
How to Use Lilies as Cut Flowers in Vase Arrangements
Lilies are beautiful cut flowers and can make an arrangement look elegant. A single stem, in fact, can be a striking arrangement all by it self, providing a long bloom…
Plant Profile: Golden Marguerite (Anthemis tinctoria )
A staple in English borders, golden marguerite is a workhorse as well as a bright star. In spring the finely divided, toothed leaves emerge from the soil with their downy…
Spring Blooming Bulbs for the Cottage Garden
Bulbs always play a big role in the spring garden providing bright color to a gray landscape that has been resting for several months. Many bulbs that we grow for…
Plant Profile: Radish ‘French Breakfast’ (Raphanus sativus ‘French Breakfast’)
First introduced in the late 1800s, ‘French breakfast’ radish is considered an heirloom radish and is still popular and available in seed stores and from catalogs. The main attraction is…
Name This Plant Game: Summer Blooming Perennials 15
This simple game tests your gardening knowledge by identifying five plants shown in photos from a list of possible names. Photos of each plant are accompaned by a clue describing…
What is an Heirloom Plant?
With the recent interest in heirloom plants many books, catalogs, and on line sources of plants are using the term so a clear definition of heirloom plant would be a…
Plant Profile: Beebalm ‘Petite Wonder’ (Monarda didyma ‘Petite wonder’)
One of the workhorses of my garden is the diminutive beebalm ‘Petite wonder’. My five plants occupy a sunny moist (but well drained) spot in a border and have bloomed…