Articles related to "Evergreen Perennial"



A Gardener's Brief Guide to Plant Hardiness
Find out more about what plant hardiness means and how to improve it in your garden.
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Acanthus - Bears Breeches - A Plant Profile
Acanthus is an ancient Greek plant which has huge architectural significance both literally and in the garden. Grown for its arching green leaves and tall floral spires.
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Bay Laurel, the Sacred Tree
Bay laurel is an evergreen perennial that is known as The Sacred Tree of Apollo. This herb has a very rich history.
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Freeze-Frame Winter
Winter mulching is something we can do that will benefit the garden no matter what happens next in this ?stuck in a rut? winter.
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The Magic of Primulas
Add masses of bright colour to your mixed borders, shrub beds, planters, and windowboxes. As there's over 400 species of primulas, there's at least one for your garden!
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Summer Blooming Perennial Plants
Summer is the season when perennial plants take center stage with bright, long lasting flowers that stand up to the summertime heat. See eight perennial garden favorites!
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Chamomile a Soothing Relaxing Herb
Chamomile, an herb for healing and landscaping. This herb is an annual and perennial, depending upon which variety you grow. Chamomile is used as a ground cover and tea.
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Easy Summer Cuttings
Easy to root cuttings to take this summer
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Annual Plants for Border Edges
Border edgings are important for blending the garden bed with the outside landscaping. See annual plants that provide color for garden border edges.
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January Plant Gallery
Plants with seasonal interest in January, together with colour photos, descriptions and cultivation details
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Winter Ground Covers and Vines
The garden landscape can seem bare during the winter but with these rambling or spreading perennial plants you can have year round interest.
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Choose a Lantana for Aromatic Flower Clusters
The Lantana plant, an easy to grow shrub, with aromatic flower clusters and stunning colors, is valued for its long reliable flowering season.
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Fragrance Garden Ground Covers
No garden is complete without attractive ground covers and these fragrant plants will work perfectly in a fragrance garden! Plants for both sun and shade are included.
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How to Grow Creeping Phlox Plant Profile
Known for evergreen foliage color and a blanket of color in the spring, creeping phlox is a well-deserved favorite of garden borders, rock gardens and raised beds.
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How to Prepare a Garden for Winter
Properly winterizing a garden will prepare it for cold weather and snow, and lessen the amount of repairing and replanting that needs to be done in the spring.
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Hyssop
Hyssop's blue spires of bloom late in the summer are a great bee attractant.
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Mountain Avens
Mountain avens, a ground hugging, sun loving shrub, a member of rose family that flourishes on high and rocky grounds in Central & Eastern Arctic.
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October Plant Gallery
Plants of seasonal interest in October - photos, descriptions, hardiness and cultivation information.
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Perennial Plants for the New Year
See the best of the new perennial plants available to home gardeners in 2008. New colors, healthier plants and interesting flower forms can all be found.
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Pollution Tolerant Plants
Until we solve many of our current pollution problems some urban gardens will suffer. Here are smog tolerant options for gardens in dirty cities.
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The Red Ginger Plant Gives All Year Round Blooms
The Red Ginger plant is a spectacular focal plant in the garden and with its glossy green leaves and showy flowers is ideal for tropical flower arrangements.
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A Winter Garden
There are many choices available to provide color, texture, form and berries for your winter container garden.
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Easy Perennials From Seed
A selection of perennials which can easily be grown from seed
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Growing Clivias in the aftermath of the 11th September 2001
Growing Clivia, spend the extra dollar now in the garden. Don't put off any longer your next purchase, waiting to see what might happen next week.
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Plant Profile Thyme (Thymus)
Thyme, an ancient herb plant long known to gardeners, can be added to every garden space. See how to grow the evergreen plant that comes in ground cover or bush forms
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Plants For Your New Border
Having planned and prepared your new border, now choose and combine the plants to fill it!
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The Hosta Plant Gives Lush Evergreen Foliage
Hostas or the Plantain Lily are shade loving plants with stunning multicolored foliage. Hostas are easy to grow and produce delicate lily-like flowers.
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Top Ten Native California Plants
With another dry, hot summer expected here in California, more and more homeowners are thinking about removing thirsty and needy plants and replacing them with natives.
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Upright Growing Container Plants
These plants all have strong vertical or upright growth habits to add contrast and interest in a container or hanging basket planting.
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Where, Oh Where Has Our Winter Gone?
The scoop on what northern gardeners can do in the garden now and what we shouldn't.
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Calming Chamomile
An overview of the uses of Chamomile, including growing the herb, it's history, and it's medicinal and magical uses.
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Landscaping with Herbs
Visualize your yard containing these functional and beautiful herb plants. Focus on plants you will use and that are beautiful to see in the landscape.
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Pachysandra - Collectors' Choices
An introduction and short descriptions of three little known Pachysandra species that are commercially available. These may make a valuable addition to a discerning homeowner's landscape garden.
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Saxifrages for all.
Saxifrages for all. The general rules for growing these are. In hot climates, needs protection from mid day sun. Needs semi shaded, well drained soils, can look good planted with rocks and in screes. Can thrive in well drained rock pockets .....
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Celmisia and Eritrichium: White and Blue.
Celmisia and Eritrichium: White and Blue.
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Winter Garden Interest V - Berries and Broadleaf Evergreens
There are plenty of plants with bright berries that summon the birds to your winter garden. And there are shrubs and trees that keep their leaves in the cold, adding more color and fullness to the scene.

Leaves - Shape Part 1
When autumn's high color is past, leaves rain down upon my garden, signaling weeks of raking and vacuuming to remove them from drive, paths and evergreen perennials. Shoveling leaves into a leaf vac by hand offers ample opportunity for close examination. It's also not exactly taxing mentally; the mind tends to wander. Mine started wandering down the path of wondering just why leaves take different shapes.
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Winter Gardens - Colorful Evergreen "Bones" - Part II
Evergreens aren't just evergreen - they are ever gold, blue, white, cream - even variegated. And they come in varied sizes from tiny dwarfs to giants that will dwarf your house. They are close to indispensible in creating year-round interest in the garden.

Online Nurseries 2000 - Specialty Perennials
Specialty Perennials is a small nursery with a wide range of plants for our gardens. Their list of plants will be especially suited for you northern gardeners. Of course, most will do well in warmer climates, too.
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Polygonum - Friends and Foes
This most fascinating and confusing genus of the buckwheat or dock family,Polygonaceae, contains marvelous garden-worthy plants and noxious weeds. There are lots of images, so please be patient while the page loads.
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