… at planting, will prove hugely helpful at harvest. First, think about the top three issues in your garden this year—and all the hard work you've put into solving them. Next, think about … in your garden last year —and the year before that. Hard to conjure up? That's because memory is simply unreliable when it comes to the hundreds of details that make for a successful garden … The venerable Mother Earth News has a wide-ranging app that's free : motherearthnews.com Smartgardener.com (no relation to our monthly column!) has a free online journal that looks …
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… Arkansas amsonia is native to Arkansas and Oklahoma and was identified and named in the wild in 1942 by Leslie Hubricht. Its fine, soft texture and threadlike foliage has helped win its …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… The cranberry cotoneaster gets its common name from the abundant red fruit it bears in the fall, which resemble cranberries. It is a low, wide-spreading shrub with a stiff branching pattern. Young shoots grow in a herringbone pattern from older wood and form a dense, impenetrable tangle. Flowers are small …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Flowering Choice spirea is a miniature shrub with long lasting pink blooms. Fall foliage is purple-red. The Spiraea … to the home gardener within the Spiraea genus. They all have a compact mounding habit in sizes ranging from 18" to 5' that makes them useful in borders and smaller spaces. The cultivars also offer foliage coloration ranging from green to …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Norman Japanese spirea is one of the smaller cultivars. It produces deep pink blooms and fall foliage that is raspberry … to the home gardener within the Spiraea genus. They all have a compact mounding habit in sizes ranging from 18" to 5' that makes them useful in borders and smaller spaces. The cultivars also offer foliage coloration ranging from green to …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Roger's Bottlebrush Buckeye is a large, multi-stemmed shrub which grows up to 8-12' tall x 8-15' wide over 10 years. It produces beautiful creamy white flowers in late July on upright spikes, 18-30" long - the longest of any of the cultivars on the market. Foliage turns a bright yellow in the fall. It grows well in sun or partial shade in evenly moist soils and over time will make …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… as a vine or ground cover. It can reach a length of 40 feet with a spread of 9 feet. It blooms in early spring with purple-chocolate colored flowers. It does produce an edible fruit, but more than one plant is required for good pollination. Prune in late spring after the flowers appear to keep the size of the plant in check. It prefers moist, …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… During what is winter in North America, spider aloe ( Aloe × spinosissima ) produces a profusion of unbranched spikes of brilliant orange-red flowers—a favorite of hummingbirds in its native growing region of South Africa. This hybrid will tolerate temperatures down to 25 …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… pattern, black chokeberry grows 3 to 5 feet tall and forms low thickets. Wine-red fall foliage in concert with purplish-black fruits provide an attractive autumn display. Use black chokeberry in home landscape borders. Small, white flowers that are borne in clusters in May and June are … fall foliage and fruit are the outstanding features of the glossy black chokeberrry, which is smaller than the red chokeberry. It has very attractive black autumn berries. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Inflated salmon pink tubular flowers are clumped near the tip of the short racemes in February. This dwarf rare species features gray-green leaves that are slightly warty in texture due to the exerted tubercles on the leaf surface. Slowly spreads to form a tight … completed dam on the Kouga River in South Africa. Easily propagated by seeds and division, it is a featured attraction of many succulent collections world-wide. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
