Looking for the best perennial border plants to add beauty and order to your flowerbeds, sidewalks and home landscaping? Border plantings not only add color, interest and definition to your planting areas, they also help keep your flowerbeds much tidier in the process. They are perfect for holding in mulch and keeping it from spilling …
Looking for a way to save those beautiful potted asters you purchased this fall to decorate your home and landscape? Asters are becoming more and more popular for Autumn decorating with each passing year. With deep green foliage and radiating blooms in a wide array of bright colors, their fall blooming cycles add big late …
Looking for the best and most beautiful ornamental grass varieties to grow in your yard to help create a long lasting, easy care landscape? Ornamental grasses are an excellent way to add low maintenance texture, color and interest to your landscape. Not only are most varieties heat tolerant and drought proof, they also are pest …
There is no better way to get more consistent blooms on your annual and perennial flowers than to learn and practice the art of deadheading plants! Whether it’s roses, geraniums, daylilies or marigolds, deadheading on a regular basis can help keep your plants producing more blooms and more flowers. So what exactly is deadheading? And …
If you are looking to add long-lasting climbing perennials to your landscape, you might want to plant and grow wisteria! Wisteria is one of the sturdiest of all climbing perennials around. For centuries, it has been used to cover pavilions, pergolas, arbors and fences with its soaring foliage and long, flowering blooms. And can it …
Hostas are one of the best ways to add color and texture to the shadier locations of your landscape – especially when you grow a few unique varieties that can turn heads with their showy foliage and blooms! Hosta plants have long been admired for their big leaves and long stemmed flowers. As the plants …
One of the best ways to add lasting winter color to your landscape is by planting and growing the American Holly bush. The American holly bush variety is often referred to as Christmas holly. This is of course due to its festive glossy green foliage and bright red berries that are on full display through …
One of the best ways to keep your perennial plants healthy, strong and vibrant year after year is to help protect them from the harsh conditions winter can hit them with. Unfortunately, although many gardeners worry about subfreezing temperatures harming their plants, it is the additional perils of winter that can cause just as much …
If you are looking for a great way to save money and have beautiful hanging planters for a shady porch or outdoor living space – you need to try creating a few hanging baskets from hostas! When it comes to the shadier spots of your landscape, the choices for hanging basket plants are fairly limited. …
With a bit of simple extra care, you can easily keep your hostas healthy and looking great long all summer long – even long after they finish blooming! Hostas are one of the most popular perennial landscaping plants of all. Their thick, luscious, shade-loving leaves are perfect for filling flowerbeds with loads of color and …