Liatris Care

Lungworts are hardy to Zone 4 and require moist soil.Basket of gold is a shrubby perennial, hardy to Zone 3. It is a magnet for bees and butterflies throughout the season. Hardy to Zone 2, there are over 100 choices of penstemons for the home garden.

Hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 3 through 8, blazing star is a U.S. native that's also called gayfeather, snakeroot and dense blazing star. A perennial plant, blazing star can be planted as a corm, which is a swollen underground...

The long-lasting blooms of this summer- and fall-blooming American native attract butterflies, bees and hummingbirds. Another pioneer name, “colic root,” referred to its medicinal use as an intestinal antispasmodic.

The blooms are small and multiple, arranging themselves all along a stalk held above the leaves called a raceme. Common names like gay feather and blazing star go a long way toward painting a picture of what you can expect when these white, pink and purple...

It was a pleasure to walk through the prairie site and see what parts of our state once looked like. Here are some pictures of our discoveries: Learn more about wildflowers grown in prairies and elsewhere with Hobby Farms' wildflower identification cards...

You may find it challenging to select plants that grow well with red hot pokers, but there is actually a wide range of red hot poker lily companions. Read on for a few suggestions.– Red hot pokers, especially yellow varieties, look great alongside orange...

I also have a healthy population living happily in my Greek Oregano. By using petals from the plants it is munching on, predators tend to overlook it and grab a less crafty victim.

Feed blazing star with a half-strength application of a high-phosphorus "bloom booster" fertilizer according to label directions. Bacteria and fungal spores from botanical diseases can live on the blades of your shears long after you've pruned infected...

Plant foxglove, columbine, bleeding heart and penstemon to meet their needs. Hummingbirds can drink easiest from tubular and funnel-shaped blooms. A complex mixture of regional wildflowers will likely meet the larval needs in your garden.Hummingbirds...

Use it as a hedge where wildlife can nest or a natural fence. Choose varieties that begin blooming early in the season and continue through late spring or early summer to create a riot of color.

Wildflowers don't just add sparks of vibrant color to your backyard. For example, black-eyed susans (Rudbeckia hirta) thrive in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 3 through 10 and are native to seven different states.

A local nursery with a great reputation for high-quality plants recently closed its doors and liquidated all its inventory. However, my planting space is limited, and I have to involve some type of decision-making process.

Their flower stalks bob in the wind, lending an airy, meadowy feel to the garden. Most farmers are time- and energy-starved. But, if you don't have time to dead head, there's no worry because the seed pods are as spectacular as the blooms.

The container plantings at the show were spectacular and often enormous, but in many cases you could imagine downscaled versions looking wonderful on your own patio. Large urns and taller planters work well to accent corners or define the curve of a garden...

Pieces of over-ripe fruit, such as pineapples, watermelons, mangoes and oranges, placed in bowls or trays during the day to provide another source of nutrients for resident butterflies; to keep ants away, set the bowl or tray of fruit in a larger container...

Remove any above-water leaves that are damaged, but leave all healthy foliage intact.Do not remove the thorns (prickles) from roses. The angled cut not only increases the surface area for water absorption, but also lifts the cut ends off the bottom of...

Here is a guide for starting your own prairie garden. The taller specimens should be placed in the back if the garden is a border, or in the center. But you should also include some less well-known varieties, such as Compass Plant [Silphium laciniatum]...

First, you're getting rid of dead flowers, which more often than not look shriveled, brown and generally unsightly. Be careful that you remove only the finished flower, and not new buds.

This star grouping's canine association derives from the ancient Egyptians. In Germany, June 27 (which actually would have fallen on July 7 prior to the Gregorian calendar reform) is Siebenschlaefer, or Seven Sleepers Day, a day thought to determine the...

Each unbranched flower spike curves to one side.The latest large group of forbs to bloom on the tallgrass prairie are the asters. The leaves are wide and covered with a soft fuzz that give it an overall gray appearance, which accounts for its also being...