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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 to late summer. With its carefree growing habit...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 11-09-2009

  • 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 mid summer through fall to prolong your viewing...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 11-08-2009

  • 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. They won't fade or wilt, even in the worst...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 11-07-2009

  • 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 above rosettes of mid-sized, deeply lobed...
    Posted to Helpful Gardening Tips (Weblog) by bill-nhn on 11-05-2009
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