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Plant Sedum ‘Fulda Glow’ for an excellent groundcover

Sedum ‘Fulda Glow’ creates a striking color of beautiful bronze-red foliage that persists all season long. It is an easy to grow, drought tolerant sedum with rose red flowers that appear on short stalks over the plant in late summer. These flowers are then followed by reddish seed pods. Being a vigorous...

Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 11-21-2009
Plant and Grow an Exceptional Daylily, ‘Fooled Me’

The Fooled Me Daylily blooms in midsummer with extended flowering that lasts at least 16 hours each. With a diameter of 5.5 inches, this golden beauty creates a wonderful visual interest. Its award winning blooms boast "pie crust" crimped golden yellow edges with a deep red eyezone and a green...

Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 10-27-2009
Growing the Bright and Hardy Woadwaxen

Are you looking for a colorful groundcover that is easy to grow and maintain? Woadwaxen plants fit in both the low-water and low-maintenance categories. A colorful plant, it provides a profusion of bright yellow flowers that drape on this low arching beauty in May -July., depending on the variety. It...

Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 09-21-2009
Growing the Daphne Spirea Shrub

A prolific bloomer, this Daphne Spirea is covered with clusters of flowers in summer. Its striking foliage forms a dense mounded shape. It is a low, spreading deciduous shrub useful as a groundcover, low hedge or over walls and embankments. It has showy, pink flat flower clusters all summer long. Remove...

Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 09-19-2009
Growing Cotoneaster

Cotoneaster shrubs will climb over rocks and walls and are well-loved for their showy berries. Many Cotoneasters have attractive pink or white flowers as well. (No thorns!) In other words, they are grown for their attractive leaves, red or white flowers, and small, red or black fruits. Most Cotoneasters...

Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 09-13-2009
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 once established. They will grow up to 4 feet...

Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 09-11-2009
Growing Liriope

It is August and my Liriope have just produced these charming, attractive violet-blue flowers! I have two plants in a container under my maple tree ; they do like some shade. They have tolerated my neglect when I would forget to water them, so this plant is a true survivor and will grow almost anywhere...

Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 08-20-2009
Lily-of-the-Valley for Groundcover or Erosion Control

Lily-of-the-Valley is a deciduous plant that has lily-like spathe-shaped leaves, 8" long, 3" wide, arching, and arise from spreading roots. Lily-of-the-Valley will spread slowly to form a thick carpet of green that remains attractive from early spring to late summer. The white bell-shaped fragrant...

Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 08-11-2009
Lirope, a fantastic groundcover!

Liriope is a groundcover that is very tough and successful in preventing erosion on even the steepest hillsides. It survives wet or bone dry conditions, and doing all that in full sun or deep shade! Weeds don't stand a chance in the thick mass of sheer liriope. Liriope will spread and fill out quickly...

Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 07-21-2009
For-Get-Me Nots

Alaska's state flower is the alpine Forget-me-not . It is a perennial that grows 5 to 12 inches high in alpine meadows. The flowers have five connected salviform petals, colored sky blue, that are a quarter to a third of an inch wide. Forget-me-nots are a decorative, low-growing perennial that are...

Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 07-19-2009

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