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Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Feathery Cassia (Senna artemisioides aka Cassia artemisiodes)

Karen July 30, 2025 0 Comments

Endemic to Australia, this compact evergreen shrub is also known as silver senna, wormwood senna and silver cassia. It is in the pea family, Fabaceae that also includes beans, lupine…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Perennial Flax (Linum perenne)

Karen July 28, 2025 0 Comments

Native to Europe, this semi-evergreen short-lived perennial is a member of the flax family, Linaceae, that includes 250 species. It grows 1-2′ tall from a deep taproot and has thin…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Snow-in-Summer (Cerastium tomentosum)

Karen June 25, 2025 0 Comments

Native to southern Italy, this short-lived perennial is a member of the carnation family, Caryophyllaceae, that also includes pinks, baby’s breath, and chickweed. The spreading plants form mats of densely…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Desert Four O’Clock (Mirabilis multiflora)

Karen June 18, 2025 0 Comments

Also called Colorado four o’clock, this herbaceous perennial is native to southwestern US from California to Colorado and Texas where it grows in deserts, grassland, hillsides, meas, and pinyon-juniper woodland.…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Crystalline Ice Plant (Mesembryanthemum crystallinum)

Karen June 9, 2025 0 Comments

This evergreen prostrate annual or biennial is native to southern Africa, Sinai, Canary Islands, and southern Europe where it grows on cliffs, coastal bluffs, sand dunes and disturbed areas. It…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Rocky Mountain Flowering Raspberry (Rubus deliciosus)

Karen April 2, 2025 0 Comments

Also known as delicious raspberry, boulder raspberry and snowy bramble, this deciduous shrub or vine is native to Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, and the Oklahoma Panhandle. It is a member…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Pussytoes (Antennaria dioica var. rosea)

Karen March 26, 2025 0 Comments

Also called cat’s foot and mountain everlasting, this semi-evergreen herbaceous perennial is native to western and north-central US where it grows in many different habitats. It is a member of…

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Plants of the Bible: Phoenicean Juniper (Juniperus phoenicia )

Karen February 25, 2025 0 Comments

Also known as Arar this evergreen shrub or small tree grows on sandy or rocky ground throughout the Mediterranean area including Lebanon, Palestine, and western Saudi Arabia near the Red…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Rock Purslane (Calandrinia umbellata)

Karen February 24, 2025 0 Comments

Rock purslane is a tender perennial usually grown as an annual. Native to western North America it is a member of the Montiaceae family that also includes Lewisia and Claytonia.…

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

Plant Profile: Creeping Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis ‘Prostratus’)

Karen February 10, 2025 0 Comments

This low growing, spreading evergreen shrub is a cultivar of a plant native to the Mediterranean and a member of the mint family, Lamiaceae, that also includes beebalm, basal, and…

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Wildflowers: Boltonia Native to the Rocky Mountain Area

Plant Profiles: How To Grow

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Wildflowers: Erythronium (Trout Lilies/Fawnlilies) Native to the Rocky Mountain Area

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Plant Profile: Seaside Buckwheat (Eriogonum latifolium)

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