Finding the Right Plant Articles
For a tropical look, even in cold climates, add rose of Sharon to your yard for reliable rose of Sharon care results. This hardy flowering shrub has showy flowers that bloom from midsummer into fall, when most other shrubs are finished for the season.
Have you seen the dinner plate-sized Hibiscus blooming around town this summer? They are easier to grow than you might think, even if you live someplace with very cold winters. Here are five helpful tips for growing your own glorious Summerific® Hibiscus.
Plant-based strategies for supporting pollinators
You’ve probably read the news stories on the “insect apocalypse”: the recent steep decline in insect populations and the potentially dire consequences it holds for other animals and ourselves. It’s easy to get discouraged listening to all the doom and gloom, but the good news is that this is an issue we can all play a part in resolving. The solution is so simple: plant something. Plants for bees and butterflies, and their flowers play a crucial role in sustaining insects as a way of supporting pollinators, using pollinator friendly plants. They in turn sustain everything that eats them, and on up the food chain.
A Guide to Understanding Light Levels in Your Garden
Full sun, part sun, part shade, full shade...what exactly does it all mean? And how do you know what you have in your own garden when evaluating garden sun exposure? Let's take a closer look at light levels so you can be sure to select the right plants for your containers and landscape based on proper plant light requirements.
Looking to fill a few large spaces in your garden beds quickly? Check out this useful pictorial guide to fast growing plants including annuals, fast growing perennials and shrubs for landscapes.
Blue flowers for the garden can create calm, relaxing spaces and are a favorite choice for many gardeners. In this guide, we'll explore plants with blue flowers and share blue flower garden ideas to help you design with color. Learn ways to use blue in your garden, along with plants that feature blue flowers or foliage.
Looking for just the right plant to fit in that narrow space along your front walkway or unique plants to tuck into a retaining wall? Find those and many more in this pictorial guide to plants for tight spaces.
Panicle hydrangeas – also known as peegee hydrangeas, hardy hydrangeas, and Limelight hydrangeas, are the easiest to grow, most adaptable of all hydrangeas. We like to call them the “black thumb hydrangea” because they are so easy and reliable, they make even people who have no experience (or claim to have a black thumb, which we don’t believe even exists, frankly) look like garden rock stars. So don’t be intimidated by this guide – we created it just to address the myriad questions we get on these popular plants.
When ornamental grasses are in their prime in landscapes across North America each fall, questions pour in to our feedback line. Do you have a question about grasses, too? Here’s a list of the most commonly asked questions about their traits, uses and growing conditions.
Think of any spot in your garden and there’s likely an ornamental grasses selection to fit. This versatile group of plants suits all sorts of uses in landscapes and containers, making landscaping with ornamental grasses both practical and beautiful, even in water gardens and ornamental grasses for containers. Though most prefer quite a bit of sunshine, some grasses can handle filtered shade. Let’s take a look at five ways on how to use ornamental grasses in your garden this season.
