Category: Flowers


Always Blooming Camellias

For those gardeners who are regularly on the lookout for evergreen shrubs or shrubs which bloom late into fall and early in the spring, look no further than the Camellia family.  These fabulous plants offer both of these benefits as they have gorgeous waxy, broad green leaves and provide varietals which produce showy blooms during  … Read more

Add Summer Color with Lantana

All of us need plants which will continue to provide us lovely color and flowers even when it is miserably hot. So if you are trying to find a summer annual with lots of color and toughness, look no further than the lantana. They are part of the verbena family and provide numerous beautiful small  … Read more

Pruning Hydrangeas

We all love the beautiful blooms of the many types of hydrangeas, they bring a lovely soft feel to summertime. However, if you don’t know what you are doing when you are pruning you might end up with no blossoms at all. It pays to have knowledge about which type of plant you have so  … Read more

Find Friends in the Garden

If you sit still in your garden long enough you will begin to notice all the movement and noise of tiny visitors. Almost all of these visitors are a friend of nature and beneficial to your garden in many aspects. With flowering perennials, shrubs and trees you must have the pollinators, these include bees, bats,  … Read more

Love Your Crepe Myrtles

Many of us have one or more of these fabulous, summer blooming trees in our landscape, the beautiful crepe myrtle. These are some of the hardiest and giving trees you can find; they are tough in hot summers, provide good fall color and survive through the winter with panache, along with giving us flowers during  … Read more

Get Hellebores for Early Color

If you are like everyone else you are looking for any color you can find in your garden. Except at this time of year in late winter/early spring there is not much to be found, evergreen shrubs and trees are the main colors in our landscapes now.

Viburnums are Lovely

When it comes to choosing shrubs for your yard there are tons of different choices available. Making the right choice includes considering appropriate size, planting zone you live in, sun or shade, evergreen or not, type of soil, dampness at planting site and several others. To find a shrub to meet many of these criteria  … Read more

Do You Have Daffodils?

Many of us know when we see the beautiful yellow daffodils pushing up through the soil that spring is on the way. It gives us hope and makes us smile, no one is immune to the positive powers of seeing a sweep of daffodils across a landscape or woodlands. These positively cheerful little flowers can  … Read more

You Don’t Have to Prop Up Those Perennials

There are many, many chores to be done in the spring as the perennial plants start to emerge but staking them is one chore you can avoid if you follow some general principles.  But first let’s review the definition of a perennial, these are the plants which die back in the fall with first frost  … Read more