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• Keeping track of the garden by planning

  I use a word processor to keep a log of what I have planted and where. The computer allows me to add, change, and delete throughout each season; having a printout is very helpful as well. For each plant listed, I add information about its location and... Posted Nov 20 2009, 10:37 AM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: all season blooms, flowerr garden, garden planning, helpful gardening tips, planning a garden, type of soil

• Welcoming Entries with a ‘Weeping Habit’

  What welcoming plants can you select to make your front entrance more inviting? Try a plant with a weeping habit! These plants will create a spectacular welcome for friends or family as they arrive at your front door. The ‘Sweetspire’ is a naturally weeping... Posted Nov 19 2009, 09:44 AM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: helpful gardening tips, lavender twist redbud, Little Henry Sweetspire, perennial, redbud, sweetspire, Trees, weeping plants

• Growing the Maggie Daley Astilbe

  Astilbe 'Maggie Daley' is great for adding a spiky accent in the moist part of the garden . It displays a profusion of showy spikes of lavender-purple panicles in mid to late summer. It is a robust and somewhat drought resistant plant. The fuzzy... Posted Nov 18 2009, 03:14 PM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: Astilbe, helpful gardening tips, hostas, Maggie Daley astilbe, perennial, pruning astilbes

• Growing the balloon flower Astra Double Blue

  Balloon Flower Astra Double Blue is a compact, well-branched plant. The interesting balloon-like buds swell to form (mostly) hollow, pillow-shaped structures before its starry petals unfold, and it resembles a hot-air balloon! Its compact, uniform habit... Posted Nov 17 2009, 01:50 PM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: Accent plantstra Double Blue Ballon Flower, Balloon flower, container plant, deadheading, dwarf balloon flower, helpful gardening tips, perennial

• Growing the long blooming Ice Plant 'Red Mountain'

  Ice Plant ‘Red Mountain’ provides blooms from early summer until frost! At only 4 inches tall, the Ice Plant ‘Red Mountain’ has an unbelievable color for that prostrate ground cover you need. This plant is covered with daisy-like flowers that are pinkish... Posted Nov 15 2009, 12:09 PM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: container plant, ground covers, helpful gardening tips, Ice plant, long bloomer, Red Mountain Ice Plant, Table Mountain Ice Plant

• Plant Yucca to add a strong architectural presence to your garden

  This Adam's Needle is a clump forming perennial with yellow strips down the middle of the dark green foliage, looking ribbon-like. These distinctive, sword-like leaves make an impressive display. In the winter months, the foliage turns pink and adds... Posted Nov 14 2009, 10:08 AM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: Adams Needle, helpful gardening tips, perennial, white flowers, year around interest, yucca

• Growing the Veronica 'Eveline'

  The Veronica 'Eveline' is an easy to grow perennial with purplish-pink, dense, extra tall flower spikes that bloom throughout June to September. With an upright plant habit, it is quite stunning when planted in containers or in mass plantings... Posted Nov 13 2009, 09:56 AM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: butterfly plant, container plant, deadheading, deer resistant plant, fall color, helpful gardening tips, hummingbird plant, perennialnnial, Veronica, Veronica Eveline

• Primula 'Salvana' can be grown in wet, boggy soil.

  Native to the coniferous forests of Tibet and southwestern China, Primula ‘Salvana’ is an enchanting perennial plant that features single, silvery stalks that hold deep purple-blue flowers in pin cushion-like heads, which are dusted in silver. Forming... Posted Nov 12 2009, 10:12 AM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: helpful gardening tips, late spring bloomer, perennial, primula, Primula Salvana, Salvana, wet soil plant

• Poppy Care

  Poppies need to be planted in well drained soil in a sunny location, and it is wise to take caution as not to over fertilize them. Their growth habit can be annual, biennial, or perennial, depending on the climate; they self-sow freely. Poppies have fern... Posted Nov 11 2009, 11:09 AM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: cut flower, Harlem Poppy, helpful gardening tips, oriental poppies, perennials, poppies, poppy, reblooming poppy

• Growing the Heliopsis Plant

  Heliopsis is a plant that looks like a sunflower and is often called a false sunflower. The flowers are golden-yellow, daisy-like and grow on an upright, clump-forming perennial that blooms up a storm, often for as long as 12 weeks! The perennial Heliopsis... Posted Nov 10 2009, 09:52 AM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: cut flower, daisies, false sunflower, Heliopsis, helpful gardening tips, long blooming period, perennial

• Growing the Large ‘Dragon Heart’ Geranium

  If you are looking for a flower that will create a bright spot in your yard, Dragon Heart would be a great choice. Geranium 'Dragon Heart' produces 2" wide magenta flowers with black centers and veining. It blooms abundantly from early summer... Posted Nov 09 2009, 10:34 AM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: deer resistant, Dragon Heart geranium, geraniums, helpful gardening tips, low maintenance plants, perennial, rabbit resistant

• Growing the breathtaking 'Red Knee High' coneflower

  Add a terrific punch in your landscape by planting the impressive, long blooming perennial , ‘ Red Knee High Coneflower . With its brilliant magenta red flowers, it demands attention with a breathtaking display of color! This flowering plant blooms from... Posted Nov 08 2009, 12:04 PM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: bird plant, Bird Seed, Coneflower, cut flowers, Echinacea, helpful gardening tips, long bloomer, perennial

• Growing the Earthy Gold Coneflower -- ‘Harvest Moon’

  ‘Harvest Moon' Coneflower is a great addition in any perennial garden! It displays daisy-like petals that are wide and overlapping. These deep golden-yellow petals have an orange cone with 4" fragrant flowers and will bloom from June to August... Posted Nov 07 2009, 04:09 PM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: Coneflower, fragrant flowered plant, Harvest Moon Coneflower, helpful gardening tips, long bloom time, perennial

• Growing the Spectacular ' Origami Yellow' Columbine

  The ‘Origami Yellow’ Columbine has large flowers that are completely yellow in color and have lovely long spurs. The spectacular colors are superb,especially near the front of beds and borders. Use it individually in small clumps, or massed together in... Posted Nov 06 2009, 02:11 PM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: columbine, columbine care, helpful gardening tips, large flowers, Origami Yellow Columbine

• Growing the Astrantia (Masterwort)

  The Astrantia is a group of flowers that are also known as masterwort. The Astrantias are both beautiful and unusual, and they come in a variety of colors. The flowers look very much like a star or a firework; their abundant blooms float like little pincushions... Posted Nov 05 2009, 02:43 PM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: Astrantia, Astrantia Star of Summer, butterfly plant, cut flowers, helpful gardening tips, masterwort, perennial