… Bright green licorice scented foliage contrasts well with the narrow dark violet blue spikes of flowers from mid-summer to fall. Plant in full sun, very well drained soils and avoid using leaf mulch around the base of the plant to …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… American hybrid grape ( Vitis 'Beta') vines are loaded with fruit in the small fruits and grapes area adjacent to the orchard. American grape can survive the Midwest's cold winters and while some are made …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… As either a small, round-topped shrub or a desirable small tree, the red buckeye can reach a height of 8 feet with a similar spread. Its lustrous dark-green leaves emerge bronze in the spring and are composed of 5 leaflets. Beautiful, vivid, red-flowered panicles 3 to 6 inches long bloom in May. The brown seeds that mature in October look like the eye of a …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… slightly fragrant flowers on a hardy, disease-resistant shrub rose that flowers throughout the summer. These features are what caught the attention of Lilia M. Weatherly of Austin's Ferry, Tasmania, when she discovered this sport in her garden. Plant this rose in full sun, in moderately moisture-retentive soil, and mulch it to keep the root system cool and moist during the heat of summer. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… This plant is called Lamb's ears because the leaves are soft and furry like a lamb's ears. Lamb's ears ( Stachys byyzantina 'Big Ears') is a plant the Garden included in its study of cultivated varieties of lamb's ears. The Garden is now evaluating the performance of 'Big Ears' and 'Silver Carpet' in a green roof setting. Easy-to-grow 'Big Ears' and 'Silver Carpet' do not require deadheading because they do not bloom, an …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Stipa , also known as Mexican feather grass, is native to hot dessert areas in the American Southwest and Mexico as well as South America. It has very slender, almost wispy …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Agaves are rosette-forming perennials growing in the desert and mountainous regions of North, Central, and South America and in the Caribbean. They bloom once at maturity, which can be anywhere from 5 to 40 years. Most plants die after flowering and are not frost hardy. Commonly grown as an …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Large, drooping burgundy buds open to dark carmine-colored flowers with dark red calyxes on this nonhardy perennial salvia beginning in July and continuing to the first frost. Plant this salvia in full sun to partial shade and in well-drained soil; it …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
… Q. Last year, my tomato plants didn’t produce as much fruit as in past years. Why is this and is there anything that I can do about it? A. There can be several reasons to explain low fruit production: • Sometimes flowers drop off the plant during periods of fluctuating temperatures. Temperatures above 90 degrees Fahrenheit …
Type: Plant Info
… The cultivar 'Not Quite White' The ruffled flowers are almost white washed in pale lavender. It stands 18 inches high and blooms in mid season, while the thin, grass like … adaptation of the iris flower. The name Iris was taken from the Greek goddess of the rainbow to symbolize the many colors of this flower. …
Type: Garden Guide Plant
