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• 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

• Growing the Impressive and Showy Tall Phlox ‘Laura’

  If you are looking for a plant with brilliant non-fading colors, Tall Phlox Laura will impress you! The flowers are lavender-purple with darker eyes and have a striking white star that comes out from the center. Butterflies and hummingbirds love it! Individual... Posted Oct 28 2009, 02:45 PM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: butterfly plant, fragrant, helpful gardening tips, hummingbird plant, long bloomer, perennial, purple flowers, rebloomer, tall phlox, Tall Phlox Laura

• Add May Night Salvia to your garden for a vibrant purple color

  The Salvia May Night has glowing purple stems loaded with violet-purple flowers that bloom from June to October. With its blue-gray, lance-shaped aromatic foliage, it makes an attractive accent perennial all summer long. Adding May Night Salvia guarantees... Posted Oct 25 2009, 03:06 PM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: butterfly plant, container planting, deer resistant, helpful gardening tips, hummingbird plant, may night salvia, purple flowers, Salvia

• Enjoy Scabiosa Butterfly Blue flowers from summer until fall!

  The Scabiosa Butterfly Blue , also known as the Pincushion Flower, has wonderful 2" lavender-blue flowers that bloom singly on stiff stems. These flowers will add color to your garden from June until October. Butterfly Blue is a reminiscent of a... Posted Oct 24 2009, 06:17 AM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: Butterfly Blue Scabiosa, butterfly plant, helpful gardening tips, hummingbird plant, perennial, pincushion flower, scabiosa

• Extend Summer Blooms with Catmint Walker’s Low

  Walker’s Low Catmint produces billowing masses of small deep-lavender blue flowers for weeks, and is one of the most vividly colored in its family. This plant is low mounding with aromatic gray-green foliage and blooms from June to September. Reaching... Posted Oct 21 2009, 09:13 AM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: butterfly plant, Catmint, helpful gardening tips, herb, herb garden, hummingbird plant, long bloomer, perennial, Walkers Low Catmint

• Pink Poppet Weigela Survives Urban Environments

  The Pink Poppet Weigela has a "ground-cover" habit and is a popular spring-blooming shrub. It has an almost prostrate form reaching only 2’ tall and spreading up to 40 inches! This dwarf, dense, rounded, deciduous shrub is clothed in funnel... Posted Oct 15 2009, 09:02 AM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: butterfly plant, deciduous shrub, helpful gardening tips, hummingbird plant, Pink Poppet Weigela, pruning pink poppet, shrub, weigela

• Caring for the Tidy and Compact Miniglobe Honeysuckle

  Miniglobe Honeysuckle is a naturally compact, tidy, ball-shaped plant. It is a mounded shrub that features diminutive yellow flowers in spring and red berries in the fall With dense blue-green foliage, it makes an excellent foundation plant or can be... Posted Oct 10 2009, 03:36 PM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: compact shrub, easy to grow, fragrant flowrs, hedges, helpful gardening tips, honeysuckle, hummingbird plant, miniglobe honeysuckle, prune honeysuckle, shrub

• Attract the Monarch Butterfly with the Cinderella Butterfly Plant

  Cinderella Butterfly Plant is easily grown in medium to wet soils in full sun. It is tolerant of average well-drained soils in cultivation even though the species is native to swamps and wet meadows. Plants have deep taproots and are best left undisturbed... Posted Sep 11 2009, 10:31 AM by bill-nhn with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: bees, butterfly plant, catapillars, Cinderella Butterfly Plant, deadheading, groundcover, helpful gardening tips, hummingbird plant, monarch butterfly plant, perennial

• Growing the Torch Lily or Red Hot Poker

  What easy plants to grow! They will do well in mid summer's heat, when other plants have wilted. They are great for arid, and semi-arid areas. You may know Red Hot Poker by another name. It is also called Torch Lily and Poker Plant. Red Hot Poker... Posted Aug 19 2009, 09:01 AM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: butterfly plant, containerner plant, helpful gardening tips, hummingbird plant, perennial, red hot poker, Red Hot Poker Fire Dance, torch lily

• The Trumpet Creeper will get you hummingbirds!

  Trumpet Creeper (Campsis radicans) is a native vine found throughout nearly the entire breeding range of the Ruby-throated Hummingbird. So if you are wanting hummingbirds to visit, this plant sure will be helpful! Although some folks consider this plant... Posted Jul 30 2009, 03:23 PM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: climbing plant, helpful gardening tips, hummingbird plant, hummingbirds, perennial, trumpet creeper, vine

• Summersweet Sixteen Candles for Shade

  Sixteen Candles features narrow, fluffy, bottlebrush-like, terminal spires of extremely fragrant, creamy white flowers. It blooms on the current year's growth for approximately 4 to 6 weeks in mid-summer and grows 4-5 feet in height. This Summersweet... Posted Jun 06 2009, 11:04 AM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: helpful gardening tips, hummingbird plant, shade plant, shade shrub, sixteen candles, upright plant, white flowrs

• Furmans Red Salvia

  Do not confuse Furmans Red Salvia (Texas Sage) with Red Salvia (Scarlet Sage). Furmans Red is hardy up to Zone 5! The crimson to scarlet flowers bloom profusely at the beginning of early summer and continue through the fall. Short days and cool weather... Posted Apr 23 2009, 02:43 PM by bill-nhn with | with no comments Filed under: furmans red salvia, helpful gardening tips, hummingbird, hummingbird plant, may night salvia, Salvia, xeriscape plant