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A beautiful landscape design utilizing perennial plants.

Designing With PerennialsPerennial plants come with so many beautiful colorful flowers and foliage, that they are a joy to use in designing your garden. Here are some helpful suggestions for planning perennial beds and borders to help you get the most of these versatile plants.

 

Perennial flower garden with beautiful flowers.

Perennial Flower Garden MaintenanceTo keep your perennial flowers healthy and looking their best all season long, you need to get in the habit of scheduling some routine maintenance. Here are some strategies for upkeep that require minimal effort, allowing you to spend more time enjoying your garden, and less time working in it.

 

Peony Shoots

Peony Bushes Not Blooming?The reasons that your peonies are not blooming include, planting too deeply or dividing too late in the previous summer. This is a page about peony bushes not blooming.

 

Winterizing a Geranium Part One

Winterizing a Geranium PlantThis is a page about winterizing a geranium plant. These cheerful flowers can be easy to winterize and enjoy year after year.

 

The Long Awaited Wisteria Bloom

The Long Awaited Wisteria BloomSome varieties of wisteria have a raceme, that can be as long as 30 inches and covered with over a hundred flowers. The variety I'm growing has a raceme averaging 12-18 inches and is covered with many fully developed flowers. So why would I post a picture of what appears to be a little, underdeveloped raceme?

 

pink Japanese anemone flower

Japanese AnemoneThis flower is rather new to me. It was given to me a couple of years, ago. Just today, I learned it's name. It is a Japanese anemone. One of it's popular common names is 'wind flower'.

 

Florida Cardinal Caladium Magic

Florida Cardinal Caladium MagicCaladiums are one type of plant that can add beautiful color to the shady parts of your yard. They are tropical beauties that come in a wide variety of colors and patterns.

 

purple spiderwort flower closeup

Tradescantia Pallida (Spiderwort)Shown is a Tradescantia pallida, sometimes known as spiderwort or Wandering Jew. It is just beginning it's yearly bloom period. Given to me without a variety name, I have grown it for several years, now.

 

Dividing Small Clumps Of Hosta

Dividing Small Clumps Of HostaLift the clump from the ground or pot at a time when the soil is a little dry. The drier soil can be shaken loose from the roots. With the roots exposed, one can get a rather clear idea of where to sever the clump.

 

Growing Achimenes

Growing AchimenesThe Achimenes has many common names. A few are Magic Flower, Nut Orchid, Widow's Tears, Hot Water Plant and Cupid's Bow. I prefer the botanical name and pronounce it 'uh-KIM-in-nee', with the accent on the second syllable. The word 'Achimenes' is either singular or plural and the ending 's' is not usually pronounced.

 

wisteria in bloom

Wisteria at the WindowWhen moving to our old farmhouse we bought this wisteria as a tiny, single branch with the hope of seeing the beautiful flowers and smelling their lovely scent one day. Some doubted it would ever grow, but it has flourished on our old farm land, much to the delight of us all when we look out our window!

 

closeup of bleeding heart flowers

Bleeding HeartsThis is a picture of my bleeding hearts in my garden. A neighbor of mine let me dig them and other nice perennials up from her yard because she didn't want to deal with all of the flowers and plants in her yard.

 

wax begonia in flower pot

Growing Wax/Fibrous Begonias In WinterThe picture shows a wax or fibrous begonia. While there is nothing spectacular about this particular plant, I wanted to share a couple things I learned about it, this year.

 

Growing Lilies

Growing LiliesThis is a page about growing lilies. There are so many beautiful lilies that you can plant to grace your garden, adding color and sometimes heady fragrance.

 

Growing Honeysuckle

Growing HoneysuckleThere are a number of varieties of this fragrant vine to choose from. This is a page about growing honeysuckle.

 

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Man watering perennial bed with a watering can

Perennial Flower Garden MaintenanceTo keep your perennial flowers healthy and looking their best, you need to get in the habit of some routine maintenance. Here are some strategies that allow you to spend more time enjoying your garden, and less time working in it.

 

Two echinacea flowers

Dividing PerennialsThis is a page about dividing perennials. Growing perennials is like having a plant factory in your own backyard. You will need to periodically divide and transplant these hardy flowers. Done properly this will provide you with a host of new plants.

 

Hens and Chicks plant

Growing Hens and ChicksHen and Chicks are interesting, low-maintenance perennial plants that are rarely troubled by pests. They are also suitable to almost any outdoor garden environment - especially the rock garden. Here's what you need to know to start growing them.

 

White bell-like flowers of Lily-of-the-Valley

How to Grow Lily-of-the-ValleyThree words that describe lily-of the-valley are beautiful, reliable, and fragrant. Its delightful sweet smelling, spring flowers are reason enough to grow them, but lily-of the-valley also offers reliable solutions to problem areas of the garden.

 

Pink bleeding heart flowers

How to Grow Old-Fashioned Bleeding...The old-fashioned bleeding heart has been a favorite flower for generations of gardeners. In fact, your mother or grandmother probably had bleeding hearts growing in their gardens. A perfect perennial for the shade. Here are some tips for growing them.

 

grating horseradish

Harvesting And Preparing HorseradishIf you like strong flavors, horseradish is one of the healthiest and most versatile perennial herbs to grow.

 

stalks of fresh rhubarb

Tips for Growing RhubarbIf you enjoy cooking with rhubarb, it's worth making space for a few of these plants in your garden. Rhubarb is actually a long-lived perennial vegetable.

 

Designing with perennials

Designing With PerennialsWith all of their colors, shapes, and textures, it's hard to imagine designing a garden without perennials. Here are some helpful suggestions for planning perennial beds and borders to help you get the most of these versatile plants.

 

wildflower

The 2011 Perennial Plant of the YearFor the second year in a row, members of the Perennial Plant Association have awarded the Perennial Plant of the Year to a native North American wildflower. This year the honors go to the lovely, and versatile, Arkansas Blue Star (Amsonia hubrichtii).

 

lupin growing by a split rail fence

How to Grow Wild LupineHave you ever gathered seeds from wild lupine plants to sow in your garden and ended up with disappointing results? Stands of lupine are easy to establish this way, providing the conditions are right.

 

Tiny plant in peat pot

5 Ways To Propagate PerennialsA great way to cut down on the cost of flower gardening is to increase your current stock of perennials using propagation techniques. With only a small amount of time and effort on your part, you can quickly increase your current plant.

 

perennial asters

Perennial Plants ExplainedFor beginning gardeners, the plant world can seem fraught with confusing, and often hard to pronounce, terminology. Fortunately, and I think most plants would agree with me, it isn't necessary to commit a large number of gardening terms to memory in order to successfully grow something.

 

Bittersweet

Growing and Harvesting BittersweetBittersweet is an easy-to-grow vine famous for revealing a striking display of seedpods and berries each fall. Often used in wreaths or decorative displays, this ornamental vine adds value and interest to the garden all year long.

 

Hands with pruning shears cutting back plant.

Cutting Back Perennials in the FallCleaning up the garden in the fall can be a bit confusing, especially when it comes to cutting back perennials. Should you leave them alone or cut them back as soon as they fade? The answer, of course, depends on the plant.

 

striking blue geranium

Geranium 'Rozanne', The 2008 Perennial Plant of...Editor's Note: This is such a beautiful plant we decided to republish Ellen's article to reintroduce you to this gorgeous blue geranium.

Recently, The Perennial Plant Association has announced that the 2008 Perennial Plant of the Year is Geranium 'Rozanne' (Rozanne cranesbill geranium).

 

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Perennials For Beginners

Perennials For BeginnersIf you're new to planting flowers, you might want to plant perennials, they'll bloom every year without you having to replant them. So make the most of your planting time and dollars.

 

Walker's Low catmint

The 2007 Perennial Plant of the YearThe Perennial Plant Association is a trade organization made up of nurseries, landscapers, and other garden industry experts, dedicated to educating gardeners on exceptional perennial plants.

 

Perennial Flowers in Yard

Ten Perennials For A Variety of UsesTechnically speaking, a perennial plant is a plant that has a life cycle lasting longer than 2 years. But for most gardeners, perennials are more like old friends. When given the proper care, we can look forward to seeing them return to the garden year after year.

 

deadheading lilies.

A Guide to Deadheading PerennialsOne of the best ways to prolong color in your perennial beds and borders is to deadhead spent flowers. Not only does this encourage reflowering by limiting seed production and self-seeding, it keeps the garden looking neat and tidy by focusing all of the attention on the living flowers.

 

flowering vines on mailbox

Five of My Favorite Perennial VinesVines add interest to the garden by providing a variety of shapes, colors, textures, and in some cases, fragrance to your landscape. They can climb walls, cover arbors, hide ugly fences, creep along rock gardens, create a sense of privacy and shade us from the sun.

 

Daylilies

Daylilies: Growing & Collecting the Perfect...When I moved to my present home, I inherited a big, unruly bed of faded orange daylilies. For a while I contemplated getting rid of them, but the bed was large and well-established and it seemed like a lot of work.

 

Planting Perennials

Transplant When You Get the UrgeI dont have to wait until spring or fall to transplant, I transplant when I get the urge.

 

Dividing Perennials

A Guide to Dividing PerennialsIt might seem counter-intuitive, but there are three very good reasons for chopping through the roots of your perfectly healthy perennials to divide them. First off, you'll regain control over the too-vigorous flowers that are trying to conquer every available square inch of your garden.

 

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