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Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Golden-Eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium californicum)

Karen November 17, 2025 0 Comments

This tender semi-evergreen herbaceous perennial is native to moist soils around ponds, bogs, marshes, and other moist sites along the Pacific coast from central California to southern British Columbia. It…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Narrow-Leaved Blue-Eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium)

Karen November 10, 2025 0 Comments

Native to moist meadows and woodlands of North America, this semi-evergreen herbaceous perennial is not a grass but is in the iris family, Iridaceae, that also includes gladiolus, crocus and…

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Wildflowers: Iris Native to the Midwest

Karen Meyers November 6, 2025 0 Comments

Iris is a genus of 310 species and is in the plant family Iridaceae that also included gladiolus, crocus and freesia. The plants are all perennial and grow from rhizomes…

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Wildflowers: Iris Native to the Southeast

Karen Meyers October 30, 2025 0 Comments

Iris is a genus of 310 species and is in the plant family Iridaceae that also included gladiolus, crocus and freesia. The plants are all perennial and grow 2-79″ from…

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Wildflowers: Iris Native to the Southwest

Karen Meyers October 23, 2025 0 Comments

Iris is a genus of 310 species and is in the plant family Iridaceae that also included gladiolus, crocus and freesia. The plants are all perennial and grow from rhizomes…

Wildflower Garden

Wildflowers: Iris Native to the Mid-Atlantic States

Karen Meyers October 9, 2025 0 Comments

Iris is a genus of 310 species and is in the plant family Iridaceae that also included gladiolus, crocus and freesia. The plants are all perennial and grow from rhizomes…

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Wildflowers: Iris Native to the Pacific Coast

Karen Meyers October 2, 2025 0 Comments

Iris is a genus of 310 species and is in the plant family Iridaceae that also included gladiolus, crocus and freesia. The plants are all perennial and grow from rhizomes…

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Groundcovers for Shade: Lily of the Valley (Convallaria majalis)

Karen September 18, 2025 0 Comments

Lily of the valley is a rhizomatous herbaceous perennial native to the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere and grows best where summers are warm but not hot. Each plant…

Ground Covers

Groundcovers for Shade: Hardy Begonia (Begonia grandis)

Karen September 11, 2025 0 Comments

Blooming from mid-summer to through fall, this herbaceous perennial produces white or pink male and female flowers 1″ across in pendant clusters on the same plant. Branching stems carry heart-shaped…

Ground Covers

Groundcovers for Shade: Siberian Bugloss (Brunnera macrophylla)

Karen September 4, 2025 0 Comments

With delicate sprays of dainty flowers and handsome foliage, this rhizomatous, herbaceous perennial brightens up the garden from spring until fall. The forget-me-not-like flowers with true` blue petals surrounding a…

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