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Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus)

Karen February 28, 2022 0 Comments

Also known as swamp cabbage, clumpfoot cabbage, foetid pothos and polecat weed, this herbaceous perennial is native to wetlands and moist slopes of eastern North America. It is a member…

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Plants for a Plant Zoo: Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis)

Karen February 22, 2022 0 Comments

The bright red flowers of this North American herbaceous perennial will light up dark, moist areas of the garden for 4-6 weeks from late summer into fall . The plants…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Ostrich Fern (Matteuccia struthiopteris aka Onoclea struthiopteris)

Karen January 26, 2022 0 Comments

Native to eastern North America, Europe, and eastern Asia, this clump-forming, deciduous fern is a member of the Onocleaceae, a small plant family of ferns distinguished by having two kinds…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia)

Karen June 16, 2021 0 Comments

This vigorous deciduous woody vine, also known as woodbine, is native to eastern and central North America south to Mexico where it grows in a variety of habitats including forests,…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Sagebrush (Artemesia tridentata)

Karen June 7, 2021 0 Comments

This evergreen shrub or small tree is native to the western US and Canada where it grows in arid and semi-arid conditions in cold desert, steppe, amd mountain habitats. It…

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Genus Anemones for the Garden

Karen June 1, 2021 0 Comments

The genus Anemone consists of over 120 species and is a member of the buttercup family, Ranunculaceae, that also includes delphinium, clematis, and hellabore. The garden worthy species are usually…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Pine Muhly Grass (Muhlenbergia dubia)

Karen April 28, 2021 0 Comments

This evergreen, clump-forming, perennial grass is native to higher elevations of eastern Arizona, New Mexico, west Texas, and northern Mexico, and belongs to the grass family, Poaceae, that also includes…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Blue Grama (Bouteloua gracilis)

Karen April 12, 2021 0 Comments

Blue Grama (Bouteloua gracilis) Also called mosquito grass, this warm-season tufted perennial is native to southern and western US where it was the dominant grass in the short grass prairie…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Sand Lovegrass (Eragrostis trichodes)

Karen April 7, 2021 0 Comments

Native to prairies, open woods, rocky slopes and roadsides of the western plains states, this perennial grass is a member of the grass family, Poaceae, that also includes bamboo, rice,…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Wild Plum (Prunus americana)

Karen March 29, 2021 0 Comments

This suckering deciduous tree is also known as American plum and yellow plum and is native to North America from Saskatchewan and Idaho south to New Mexico and East to…

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