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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 care. For instance, I will make note when to prune...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 11-20-2009

  • 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 plant that produces finger-like panicles of...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 11-19-2009

  • 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 flowers are full and packed closely together, resembling...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 11-18-2009

  • 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 makes a good selection for cut flowers, containers...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 11-17-2009

  • 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 red with creamy white centers. As the blooms age...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 11-15-2009

  • 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 to it’s overall appeal and attraction. This plant...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 11-14-2009

  • 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. In the cool weather of fall, you receive an added...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 11-13-2009

  • 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 a low rosette of powdery grey-green leaves, Salvana...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 11-12-2009

  • 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-like foliage or long, narrow leaves and are a...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 11-11-2009

  • 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 comes in a variety of yellows, and the flowers...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 11-10-2009
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