Articles related to "Perennials"
Overwintering in the Greenhouse
With proper overwintering techniques, which are made much easier with the use of a greenhouse, many plants can be preserved only to be more vigorous beautiful producers.
• how to grow perennials • perennials flowers • gardening flowers • flower gardening • overwintering hibiscus
With proper overwintering techniques, which are made much easier with the use of a greenhouse, many plants can be preserved only to be more vigorous beautiful producers.
• how to grow perennials • perennials flowers • gardening flowers • flower gardening • overwintering hibiscus
Fall Division of Perennial Plants
Divide perennials for propagation, to renew plant vigor, or limit spreading. Tip: Many plants may be divided in the fall. Do it now and have more time next spring!
• perennial to divide in fall • divide perennial • split perennial • perennial division • separate perennial
Divide perennials for propagation, to renew plant vigor, or limit spreading. Tip: Many plants may be divided in the fall. Do it now and have more time next spring!
• perennial to divide in fall • divide perennial • split perennial • perennial division • separate perennial
Perennials: Design to Impress
Design with big, easy perennials: eye catching, attention grabbing plants that bring excitement to the flower bed or mixed border. Special plants that say "Look at Me!"
• perennial garden design • big perennial flowers • large size perennial flowers • tall perennial flowers • low maintenance perennial flowers
Design with big, easy perennials: eye catching, attention grabbing plants that bring excitement to the flower bed or mixed border. Special plants that say "Look at Me!"
• perennial garden design • big perennial flowers • large size perennial flowers • tall perennial flowers • low maintenance perennial flowers
Starting With Perennials
Just beginning to grow perennial flowers? Starting your first perennial flower garden? Follow this basic guide to planting and growing perennial flowers.
• growing perennials • how to grow perennials • guide to perennial gardening • begin perennial garden • plant perennial flowers
Just beginning to grow perennial flowers? Starting your first perennial flower garden? Follow this basic guide to planting and growing perennial flowers.
• growing perennials • how to grow perennials • guide to perennial gardening • begin perennial garden • plant perennial flowers
Growing from Seed
How to grow perennial plants from seed. Is it cost effective? Is it different from growing veggies and annuals from Seed?
• perennials • growing perennials from seed • growing from seed • agastache • is it worth growing perennials from seed
How to grow perennial plants from seed. Is it cost effective? Is it different from growing veggies and annuals from Seed?
• perennials • growing perennials from seed • growing from seed • agastache • is it worth growing perennials from seed
Perennials Grow Over Time
Perennials grow bigger and better each year and could outgrow their place in the garden. Plan ahead and space perennial plants to allow for their mature size.
• perennial flower garden • flower garden plan • perennial growing • perennial gardening • perennial plant
Perennials grow bigger and better each year and could outgrow their place in the garden. Plan ahead and space perennial plants to allow for their mature size.
• perennial flower garden • flower garden plan • perennial growing • perennial gardening • perennial plant
Eight Easy Perennials
Design a perennial flower garden with these easy to grow perennials: widely adapted, easy to grow in a sunny garden, long lived flowers, and they look beautiful, too.
• low maintenance perennial flower • beginner perennial flower garden • easy perennial • start perennial flower garden • low maintenance flower
Design a perennial flower garden with these easy to grow perennials: widely adapted, easy to grow in a sunny garden, long lived flowers, and they look beautiful, too.
• low maintenance perennial flower • beginner perennial flower garden • easy perennial • start perennial flower garden • low maintenance flower
Spring Planting: Perennials 2
It’s spring! But is it time to plant perennials yet? Can container grown hardy perennials be planted before the last spring frost? Maybe yes, maybe no. Find out why.
• when to plant perennial flower • spring planting • perennial garden • perennial gardening • when to plant container grown perennial flower
It’s spring! But is it time to plant perennials yet? Can container grown hardy perennials be planted before the last spring frost? Maybe yes, maybe no. Find out why.
• when to plant perennial flower • spring planting • perennial garden • perennial gardening • when to plant container grown perennial flower
Spring Planting: Perennials I
Your bare root perennial plants are ready for planting. Are you ready for them? When to plant these in the garden and how to delay planting, if you must.
• spring planting • planting flowers • bare root perennial plant • planting bare root perennial • bareroot perennial
Your bare root perennial plants are ready for planting. Are you ready for them? When to plant these in the garden and how to delay planting, if you must.
• spring planting • planting flowers • bare root perennial plant • planting bare root perennial • bareroot perennial
Annual or Perennial?
Is that flower an annual, perennial, biennial? Define your terms! Which one(s) are you planting in your flower garden this year? Does it matter? Of course it matters!
• what kind of flower • annual flower • perennial flower • biennial flower • half hardy annual flower
Is that flower an annual, perennial, biennial? Define your terms! Which one(s) are you planting in your flower garden this year? Does it matter? Of course it matters!
• what kind of flower • annual flower • perennial flower • biennial flower • half hardy annual flower
Northern Spring Perennials
These super-hardy early flowering perennials are great in the gardens and the wild in zones 4 and colder.
• snow • zone 4 • zone 3 • zone 2 • zone 1
These super-hardy early flowering perennials are great in the gardens and the wild in zones 4 and colder.
• snow • zone 4 • zone 3 • zone 2 • zone 1
Perennial Flowers Summer Care
Flower gardeners know perennial flowers respond to basic care with better blooms and vigorous growth. Follow these summer care tips for your best perennial garden ever!
• summer flowering perennials • summer perennial care • summer flower garden • flower garden tips • how to grow perennial flowers
Flower gardeners know perennial flowers respond to basic care with better blooms and vigorous growth. Follow these summer care tips for your best perennial garden ever!
• summer flowering perennials • summer perennial care • summer flower garden • flower garden tips • how to grow perennial flowers
Perennial Foliage For Early Winter
The tree and shrub leaves have drifted over my borders and most perennials in my garden have retreated underground, or into tight rosettes, for the winter. Nevertheless, a jaunt around the garden found several perennials whose leaves are still very much in evidence; aiding the evergreen trees and shrubs in furnishing the early winter garden.
• shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
The tree and shrub leaves have drifted over my borders and most perennials in my garden have retreated underground, or into tight rosettes, for the winter. Nevertheless, a jaunt around the garden found several perennials whose leaves are still very much in evidence; aiding the evergreen trees and shrubs in furnishing the early winter garden.
• shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Starting Perennials from Seed
How to start perennials from seed, taking into consideration how they differ from annuals.
• seed starting techniques • perennials • annuals • stratification • vernalization
How to start perennials from seed, taking into consideration how they differ from annuals.
• seed starting techniques • perennials • annuals • stratification • vernalization
Organic Gardening to the Max
Sometimes, organic gardening is the result of circumstances beyond one's control.
• organic • gardening • wild • volunteers • harvest
Sometimes, organic gardening is the result of circumstances beyond one's control.
• organic • gardening • wild • volunteers • harvest
Spring Divisions
Spring is the ideal time for American Gardeners to take divisions of perennials, spring bulbs, grasses and even multistemmed shrubs. All are easy to do when the plants emerge in the spring.
• dividing perennials • dividing bulbs • dividing shrubs • spring chores • sharing plants dividing grasses
Spring is the ideal time for American Gardeners to take divisions of perennials, spring bulbs, grasses and even multistemmed shrubs. All are easy to do when the plants emerge in the spring.
• dividing perennials • dividing bulbs • dividing shrubs • spring chores • sharing plants dividing grasses
Are Annuals Outdated?
There must have been some good reason for those Victorians to have been mad for annuals!
• annuals • victorians • bedding • flowers • perennial
There must have been some good reason for those Victorians to have been mad for annuals!
• annuals • victorians • bedding • flowers • perennial
Blackberry Lily
Do you want to give your garden a tropical look without the trouble of over wintering plants that aren't cold hardy? Blackberry Lily may be just the plant you need.
• blackberry lily • belamcanda chinensis • seedpods • propagating • easy care perennial
Do you want to give your garden a tropical look without the trouble of over wintering plants that aren't cold hardy? Blackberry Lily may be just the plant you need.
• blackberry lily • belamcanda chinensis • seedpods • propagating • easy care perennial
Arum italicum 'Pictum'
When the weather is chilly, wet and dreary and leaves are covering the ground instead of tree branches, fresh foliage is hard to find. Arum italicum is just starting to hit it's stride.
• shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
When the weather is chilly, wet and dreary and leaves are covering the ground instead of tree branches, fresh foliage is hard to find. Arum italicum is just starting to hit it's stride.
• shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Even More Groundcovering Self-Seeders
Celandine, or wood poppies, are great at covering ground, as is the biennial Lunaria or money plant
• groundcover • groundcovers • perennials • biennials • wood poppies
Celandine, or wood poppies, are great at covering ground, as is the biennial Lunaria or money plant
• groundcover • groundcovers • perennials • biennials • wood poppies
Flowering Deciduous Shrubs For The New Woodland Garden
Flowering deciduous shrubs for shady gardens
• deciduous shrubs • shrubs for shade • shady gardens • shade garden • gardening in shade
Flowering deciduous shrubs for shady gardens
• deciduous shrubs • shrubs for shade • shady gardens • shade garden • gardening in shade
Foliage: The Living Palette - Part 3
As we dream of our gardens and what we want to do, we need to keep our aesthetic tools in mind. Foliage is one of the primary tools available to those of us who garden in shade. With it, we can weave a living tapestry. I've finally gotten a scanner and I've been playing with it. One of these days, I'll figure out the best way to use it. In the meantime, please bear with me if my page is slow to load.
• perennials • shrubs • trees • groundcover • leaves
As we dream of our gardens and what we want to do, we need to keep our aesthetic tools in mind. Foliage is one of the primary tools available to those of us who garden in shade. With it, we can weave a living tapestry. I've finally gotten a scanner and I've been playing with it. One of these days, I'll figure out the best way to use it. In the meantime, please bear with me if my page is slow to load.
• perennials • shrubs • trees • groundcover • leaves
Galloping Ground Covers
Ajuga and Vinca cover ground at a gallop.
• groundcover • perennials • ajuga • bugleweed • vinca
Ajuga and Vinca cover ground at a gallop.
• groundcover • perennials • ajuga • bugleweed • vinca
Gardening In Shade - Introduction
Shade:. Shade can be cool, dappled, heavy, light, dank, dry and wet. It gives relief from summer’s unrelenting heat. Shade provides a home to some of the most beautiful of plants.
• shade • gardening in shade • shade gardening • perennials • shrubs
Shade:. Shade can be cool, dappled, heavy, light, dank, dry and wet. It gives relief from summer’s unrelenting heat. Shade provides a home to some of the most beautiful of plants.
• shade • gardening in shade • shade gardening • perennials • shrubs
Harbingers of Fall - Part II - Liriope
There are a few more plants whose blooming tells me that the gardening season is winding down. After Eupatorium, the first to nudge me is Liriope.
• shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
There are a few more plants whose blooming tells me that the gardening season is winding down. After Eupatorium, the first to nudge me is Liriope.
• shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Impossible Gardening: Hot, Dry, Clay Soil - Part 4
Part 4 of a series of articles on plants that have thrived in dry, clay soils, in light shade.
• horticulture therapy • enabling garden • hibiscus • coreopsis • rudbeckia
Part 4 of a series of articles on plants that have thrived in dry, clay soils, in light shade.
• horticulture therapy • enabling garden • hibiscus • coreopsis • rudbeckia
Jacks And Relatives - Arisaema
Many of you are probably familiar with our native Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum), but are you aware that there are many relatives from around the world, some of whom are incredibly exotic looking and most of whom are perfectly hardy in temperate gardens? Let me tell you about a few of them...you might just find a new plant love amongst them.
• shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Many of you are probably familiar with our native Jack-in-the-Pulpit (Arisaema triphyllum), but are you aware that there are many relatives from around the world, some of whom are incredibly exotic looking and most of whom are perfectly hardy in temperate gardens? Let me tell you about a few of them...you might just find a new plant love amongst them.
• shade • shade garden • shade gardening • gardening in shade • perennials
Mandy Alford's English Garden
An English garden
• english gardens • cottage garden • cottage garden perennials • vegetable gardening • flowering herbaceous perennials and evergreen shru
An English garden
• english gardens • cottage garden • cottage garden perennials • vegetable gardening • flowering herbaceous perennials and evergreen shru
May Gardening: Tips for Desert Gardeners
General desert gardening tips, including using vegetables as perennials, planting methods, and composting.
• compost • composting • tomatoes • perennials • vegetable gardening
General desert gardening tips, including using vegetables as perennials, planting methods, and composting.
• compost • composting • tomatoes • perennials • vegetable gardening
More Groundcovering Self-Seeders
Hardy begonias and Columbine - two of my favorite self-seeding perennials.
• groundcovers • groundcover • perennials • begonia grandis • hardy begonia
Hardy begonias and Columbine - two of my favorite self-seeding perennials.
• groundcovers • groundcover • perennials • begonia grandis • hardy begonia
Planting Flowers in Spring
When is the best time to plant my flowers? Is it too early? Too late? Is there a difference between when to plant annuals and perennials? Find out!
• spring planting • plant flower • when to plant annual flowers • when to plant perennial flower • planting perennial flowers
When is the best time to plant my flowers? Is it too early? Too late? Is there a difference between when to plant annuals and perennials? Find out!
• spring planting • plant flower • when to plant annual flowers • when to plant perennial flower • planting perennial flowers
Benefits of Fall Planting
While spring is typically the busy garden season, fall is the best time for planting landscape perennials, shrubs and trees for many reasons.
• fall planting • benefits to autumn planting • perennials • shrubs • trees
While spring is typically the busy garden season, fall is the best time for planting landscape perennials, shrubs and trees for many reasons.
• fall planting • benefits to autumn planting • perennials • shrubs • trees
Planting Gold in the Garden
Many gardeners have discovered that using gold foliage in the landscape is an easy way to add color without depending on flowers.
• plants with gold foliage • yellow foliage plants • shrubs • perennials • grasses
Many gardeners have discovered that using gold foliage in the landscape is an easy way to add color without depending on flowers.
• plants with gold foliage • yellow foliage plants • shrubs • perennials • grasses
starting seeds
A guide to when to start sowing seed indoors. How to decide when to start seeds according to your growing zone.
• growing from seed • starting seeds • average last frost date • growing annuals • when to start seeds
A guide to when to start sowing seed indoors. How to decide when to start seeds according to your growing zone.
• growing from seed • starting seeds • average last frost date • growing annuals • when to start seeds
The Bittersweet Vine
The vine commonly called bittersweet can actually be one of three different species. One is endangered, One is a plant pest - and one is a nightshade and can be lethal.
• bittersweet • vines • perennials • solanum dulcamara • celastrus orbiculatus
The vine commonly called bittersweet can actually be one of three different species. One is endangered, One is a plant pest - and one is a nightshade and can be lethal.
• bittersweet • vines • perennials • solanum dulcamara • celastrus orbiculatus
Where Do The Drips Go?
Where to locate drip emitters is paramount to a drip irrigation system.
• drip system • emitters • plant needs • herbaceous perennials • shrubs and small trees
Where to locate drip emitters is paramount to a drip irrigation system.
• drip system • emitters • plant needs • herbaceous perennials • shrubs and small trees
Ajuga and other Groundcovers
Perennial groundvers can be attractive and useful and you don't have to restrict your choice to just Ivy or Vinca.
• groundcovers • perennial groundscovers • ajuga • bugleweed • cerastium
Perennial groundvers can be attractive and useful and you don't have to restrict your choice to just Ivy or Vinca.
• groundcovers • perennial groundscovers • ajuga • bugleweed • cerastium
Flower Garden Style
What is your flower garden style? Is your flower garden informal or formal? Does it look the way you want? What if your flower garden looks like a terrible mistake!
• flower garden style • garden design • informal garden • cottage garden • formal garden
What is your flower garden style? Is your flower garden informal or formal? Does it look the way you want? What if your flower garden looks like a terrible mistake!
• flower garden style • garden design • informal garden • cottage garden • formal garden
Flower Garden Weed Control 1
Got weeds? Who doesn't! Follow these simple weed control tips beginning early in the spring to control weeds in your flower garden all season long.
• flower garden weed control • weed control strategy • weed seed germination • soil seed bank • perennial weed
Got weeds? Who doesn't! Follow these simple weed control tips beginning early in the spring to control weeds in your flower garden all season long.
• flower garden weed control • weed control strategy • weed seed germination • soil seed bank • perennial weed
Flowers for the White Garden
Flowers for the white garden or moon garden include multitudes of white flowered annuals, biennials, perennials, bulbs, rhizomes, and tubers.
• white garden flower • moon garden flower • perennial • annual • biennial
Flowers for the white garden or moon garden include multitudes of white flowered annuals, biennials, perennials, bulbs, rhizomes, and tubers.
• white garden flower • moon garden flower • perennial • annual • biennial
Frosty Morn Sedum
Frosty Morn Sedum is a problem solving perennial in my garden. It has earned a place in the garden by being a low maintenace plant that looks great without flowers.
• frosty morn sedum • sedum • variegated sedum • plants bulbs • susan mertz
Frosty Morn Sedum is a problem solving perennial in my garden. It has earned a place in the garden by being a low maintenace plant that looks great without flowers.
• frosty morn sedum • sedum • variegated sedum • plants bulbs • susan mertz
Growing Bearded Iris
The German bearded iris is a traditional perennial flower for the full sun garden. Bearded iris differ from beardless iris by appearance and culture.
• what is bearded iris • german iris • iris germanica • perennial flowers • iris borer
The German bearded iris is a traditional perennial flower for the full sun garden. Bearded iris differ from beardless iris by appearance and culture.
• what is bearded iris • german iris • iris germanica • perennial flowers • iris borer
How To Use Beardless Iris
Beardless irises are easy to use. Species like the Siberian iris and Louisiana iris are excellent low maintenance plants for the perennial plant gardener.
• using beardless iris • low maintenance plants • easy perennial plants • water gardens • louisiana iris
Beardless irises are easy to use. Species like the Siberian iris and Louisiana iris are excellent low maintenance plants for the perennial plant gardener.
• using beardless iris • low maintenance plants • easy perennial plants • water gardens • louisiana iris
Plants That Help Blend Colors
Put some plants side by side and you end up with jarring combinations. In today's article, a landscaper shares some of her favorite plants that help colors blend.
• collectors garden • color in the garden • blending colors • garden tour • perennial plant of the year
Put some plants side by side and you end up with jarring combinations. In today's article, a landscaper shares some of her favorite plants that help colors blend.
• collectors garden • color in the garden • blending colors • garden tour • perennial plant of the year