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Russian Sage Plant Profile and Tips for Growing
Russian Sage is not related to the Salvia family of plants, but provides gardeners with an amazing flower display in dry conditions.
russian sage • plant profiles • butterfly plants • fragrance garden • summer flowers

Perennial Heliopsis and Russian Sage in a Garden
Heliopsis and Russian sage are deer resistant but attract pollinators seeking nectar filled flowers. These perennials bring bees, butterflies and hummingbirds to gardens.
what is heliopsis • russian sage • perennials for gardens • deer resistant plants • plants attracting bees butterflies hummingbirds

Russian Sage in The Desert
Russian Sage (Perovskia atriplicifolia) is a showy and beautiful addition to any desert garden. But it's not sage, nor is it native to Russia.
russian sage • preovskia atriplicifolia • native to central asia • mint family • labiateae

Impossible Gardening: Hot, Dry, Clay Soil, Part Shade-Part 2
Describes an extremely difficult gardening situaiton and how the problem is solved. Part 2 - Continues listing plants that thrive in the difficult conditions of dry, clay soils.
clay soil • horticulture therapy • dry soil • shade • ruta graveolens

Russian Sage and Garden Rehab
First, we take a look at a truly carefree, award-winning perennial that should be planted now for next summer's color: Russian Sage. Also, I'll share the preliminary stages of detoxing my new lawn and garden.
organic gardening russian sage perovskia woody per

Desert Garden Pots
Whether you're buying new pots or recycling old ones, there are some things you need to be paying attention to when creating your container desert garden.
potting • desert garden • desert gardens • pot • alaklinity

WEST SIDE GARAGE PLANTING
The west sides of homes are among the hottest places in xeric landscaping. You can order most plants now for fall planting. You can put your garage on the west to act as an insulating buffer. A variety of "Xeric to the Max" plants work well and look really good together on the garage or house's west wall.
west • xeriscaping • xeric • rocky mountain juniper • juniper

Wind Tolerant Perennial Plants
Gardens located in exposed areas, near the shore or on the plains, are subject to lots of wind that can damage some garden plants.
wind tolerant plants • perennial plants • bayberry shrubs • threadlead coreopsis • russian sage

Waterwise Sages
Some are true sages, some are misnomers, but all have a place in a waterwise garden
salvia • artemesia • petrovskia • phlomis • sages

How to Grow Sage
Sage is a useful herb that is easy and fun to grow. It makes a great landscape plant, can be used in the kitchen as a seasoning, and makes a great tea.
sage • dried sage • herb sage • growing sage • garden sage

LANDSCAPE YOUR DECK IN A WEEKEND
Landscape your deck or patio in a weekend. Do it the easy way with container gardens. Here's how. It's as easy as 1-2-3.
container gardening • container gardens • planters • soilless potting mix • peat-based potting mix

Plants and Shrubs with White Foliage
White gardens are romantic, especially around sundown when the color seems to take on an ethereal glow. Flowers are transient - but white foliage is a three season treat
plants with white foliage • japanese maple 'ukigomo' • floating clouds maple • variegated willow • salix integra 'hakuru nishiki'

Purple Coneflower
Purple coneflower is extremely popular as a medicinal herb. This plant has many uses in the landscape.
purple coneflower • medicinal herbs • russian sage • gayfeather • ornamental grasses

The Fall Flower Garden
Late summer and early fall perennial borders are often lacking in color and interest. There are old favorites and new possibilites that can be added to the border for renewed interest. Let's explore some noteworthy plants for the laste season border!
fall flower gardening • seasonal • seasonal gardening • late summer • early fall perennial borders

The Mint Family
Of the culinary herbs, ten of these are the most commonly grown. For the most part, these tend to be members of the Mint family. Worldwide, there are around a hundred genera and some three thousand species within this family.
culinary herbs • mint family • basil • lavender • mints

Growing Purple Coneflowers
Coneflowers are native to North America. Although purple coneflowers are the best known, there are at least four wild varities and several cultivars.
purple coneflower • coneflower • cone flower • echinacea purpera • echinos

Using Foliage to Create Three Season Interest
Leaves are around the garden for three seasons. Flowers last a few weeks. It stands to reason that getting the foliage right is a crucial element in great garden design.
leaf texture • foliage texture • leaf shape • plant shape • foliage shape fine textured plants

My Garden's Got the Blues (And I Love It!)
There are blue things blooming everywhere I look in the garden. I wonder why I never noticed this before?

Practically Painless Perennials for Sun
Some stalwarts of the garden - perennials that do much and ask little.

Autumn Table Decorations
Autumn table decorations are just the thing to capture the beauty of fall. Creativity can "bloom" with seasonal offerings to grace the table.
autumn table decorations • autumn table • fall table decorations • fall centerpieces • autumn centerpieces

Boulevard Gardens in Milwaukee Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, has wide boulevard gardens throughout its public streets. Gardeners will be inspired by the free garden plantings easily seen in this Midwest city.
what are boulevard gardens • gardens in milwaukee wisconsin • free garden planting ideas • midwest city public streets • annual plant combinations

Giant Black Eyed Susan
Black-Eyed Susans, with their conical brown seed heads and bold yellow petals, provide some striking contrast in any natural garden.
black-eyed susan • giant black-eyed susan • rudbeckia grandiflora • purple coneflower • echninacea

Gardening at the Seashore
Why is it so difficult to grow flowers by the sea? Finding plants that will stand up to the harsh conditions by the sea may seem impossible, but is well worth the search.
salt tolerant plants • seashore garden • seaside • salt spray • flowers by the ocean

Helping Honeybees in Your Garden
There are some simple things that gardeners can do to help provide for honeybees no matter how small their space.
honeybees • bees • helping honeybees • helping bees • attracting honeybees

Impossible Gardening: Hot, Dry, Clay Soil, Part Shade-Part 3
Describes an extremely difficult gardening situaiton and how the problem is solved. Part 3 - Discusses Lavendula plants as good choices for hot, dry, clay soils.
clay soil • horticulture therapy • dry soil • shade • lavender

Massachusetts Bridge of Flowers
The Bridge of Flowers in Shelburne Falls, MA, dedicated in 1929, adapted the idea of a New England garden by using a relic trolley bridge. Well worth the visit.
bridge of flowers • shelburne falls • massachusetts • landscape gardens • unusual gardens

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

Quick and Easy New Home Perennial Garden
Perennial gardens can be stunning in just a couple of years. A big budget helps, but there are cost-cutting tricks to building beautiful perennial gardens.
quick easy perennial garden • new home garden • divide plants • annual flowers instant color • design new garden

Red, White And Blue
While Memorial Day is still warm in our hearts, our eyes wet with pride, and our prayers with loved ones in the military, did the thought come to your mind that you wished you had landscaped your yard more? And there's plenty of time to get your yard's spirit up before the next Fourth of July weekend.
spirit • fourth of july • gardens • flowers • annuals

SAGE: HERB OF THE YEAR
Sage, salvia officinalis, is herb of the year for 2001. Explore the many types of sage, learn to grow them and use them and enjoy them.
sage salvia offinalis

Top Low-Water Use Shrubs
Here are some great shrubs and small trees for use in desert gardens, basically for USDA cold-hardiness zones 7-10, and below 6,000 feet.
acacia • honeysuckle • manzanita • sagebrush • sage

Transition Desert Garden
The "transition" zone portion of your desert garden will require less water and less maintenance after establishment. Here are some suggested plants, as well as watering
desert garden • transition zone • water • yarrow • hollyhock

A Glow in the Dark Garden
Silver colored leaves often twinkle and virtually glow in the light of gardenlights, streetlights, porchlights or even the moon.
moonlight gardens • silver leaves • glowing plants

August Gardening In The Low Desert 2000
What needs to be done in the low desert in August and some hints for keeping deer from your garden and flowers.
roses • fruit and nut trees • mulch • chlorosis • deer

Crayola Color Gardens for Kids
Color gardens teach children about color and it's many variations. Plant a garden which is all one color or a color wheel, rainbow, or spectrum. Let children learn about the nuances of color. © <a href="/profile.cfm/Linda">Linda Mazar</a>
color gardens • kids • linda mazar • traute klein • biogardener

July Gardening In The Low Desert 2000
Some good ideas on keeping rabbits out of the low desert garden, including some plants they may not like as well as others.
rabbits • rabbit resistant plants • deer • formulas for animal repellants

Plant Perennials for Hummingbirds
With springtime just around the corner, bird lovers are refurbishing their hummingbird feeders. By all means, hang them up! But consider creating a hummingbird paradise.
attracting hummingbirds • plants that hummingbirds like • feeding hummingbirds • hummingbird facts • hummingbird habits

Wave® Petunia Landscape Designs
Wave® petunias solve many garden landscape color and design problems. Plant them in containers or garden plots, alone or with other ornamental plants. Photos included.
wave® petunias • wave petunias • petunias • petuniaslandscape designs • petunias garden landscape color

When Hardy Perennials Aren't
Landscapes filled with perennials flowers are many a gardener's dream. But sometimes these "low maintenance" plants don't seem to live up to popular belief, and sometimes they die out unexpectedly. This article will discuss some of the problems with perennials flowers in the landscape and how proper garden design and horticultural care can ensure a healthy, vigorous garden.
perennials • flowers • hardy

A Chance to Start Over
The silver lining in this cloudless time of drought - we now have a chance to correct old mistakes and plant things that will do well for us and look great.
drought • gardening • planning • design • silver foliage

At Last! The End of the Garden Tour
Take heart - the tour is almost over and you'll be able to sit back and relax in the shade of the gazebo with the sound of rushing water, chirping birds and buzzing bees as your music.

Gardens of Silver
Silver foliage plants can be garden work horses, keeping warring colors apart and creating a misty atmosphere without demanding much in return.

Growing Boundaries
Ways to define your yard with living and growing plants.
vines • climbers • fence • wall • hedge

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