Scorch and general foliage decline usually occur if soils are allowed to dry out. Sporadic repeat blooms until frost, particularly in autumn. If grown in full sun, consistent moisture is particularly important.
Any type of fertilizer offers nutrients that help plants with the transition to a new environment. Unlike other hostas, Sum and Substance is very large, 2 to 3 feet tall and 5 to 6 feet wide.
Espoma products are easy to use, just sprinkle around the base of the plant and water it in. Astilbe Snowdrift does prefer moist soils so if there was ever a plant that we would recommend adding topsoil or compost in copious amounts this is one.
This variety features a mound of large, variegated, oval, which have deep green centers and wide irregular white margins. Green leaves edged in white and contrast to the shade garden! Hosta Patriot boasts strong white margin on dark green heart-shaped...
The purple iris like flowers are striking against the gold foliage. Use this native shade lover in open woodland gardens or along streams or ponds. From the lovely chartreuse foliage to the beautiful bluish purple flowers, this is a ground cover unlike...
It may be massed in woodland areas as a ground cover. The 24″ upright fronds take on an autumn color again in the fall. Plants slowly spread over time by short creeping rhizomes.
Useful in rock gardens, borders and open woodland gardens. Mass as in a group as a ground cover . Heuchera Citronelle is a vigorous, clump-forming, compact coral bells cultivar. Let this lime green superstar make your shade garden shine.
Looks great in containers or as an edging. The foliage of this tough heat and humidity tolerant Heuchera is golden apricot with a slight earthy green or rose tint on the newer leaves.
Flowers appear in June. The original purple coral bells, it has maple or ivy-like leaves which are an attractive deep purple above and beet-red beneath. Does well in full sun in the northern part of its range.
Hellebore Ivory Prince is a complex hybrid whose parents are unknown. They are noted for producing single, cup-shaped flowers (typically 2-3” diameter) with five showy, usually overlapping petals (technically sepals), but sometimes come in a double...
Flower colors range from pure white to red to near black. Hybrid hellebores, sometimes commonly called hybrid Lenten roses or hybrid winter roses, are bushy, clump-forming perennials which typically grow to 12-15” tall.
Meaning injures/destroys in reference to the plant's toxic leaves, stems and roots which are poisonous to humans if ingested. Evergreen perennial with cup-shaped nodding blooms in colors ranging from cream, pink to red in late winter.
Leaves, stems and roots are poisonous. Palmate, serrate, leathery, 8-16″ wide, glossy, basal, dark green leaves (7-9 leaflets) are evergreen in warm climates but deciduous in extremely cold winters.
Clusters of deep magenta-purple flowers are larger than all other varieties, appearing in spring then continuing off and on until fall. Cool season plant. Clusters of purple flowers appear and spring and continue off and on through fall.
Species plants are primarily native to the West, particularly in the Rocky Mountains, with a few species extending into northern Mexico. Unfortunately, the parentage of many hybrids in commerce today is unknown.
Our ideal fertilizer schedule for you to use is as follows. Water using the counting method for the first few weeks. A good rule is that you should still be able to see the soil the plant was grown in after back-filling the hole.
Tassel fern is an evergreen fern that is native to Japan and southern Korea. While there are ferns that can be grown on the highest mountains, in the driest deserts, on wall tops, in sun or shade, or even on the bottom of ponds, in fact virtually anywhere.
They prefer moist, humusy soil. With such showy flowers, they deserve to be in the front of the shade garden. Remember that it goes dormant in mid-summer. A garden favorite for years, it's fairly tall at 3′, and has evenly spaced pink hearts suspended...
Are commonly called bleeding heart because protruding inner petals, more obvious in some species than others, purportedly appear to form a drop of blood at the bottom of each heart-shaped flower.
We highly recommend that you mulch your Heuchera Fire Alarm with either a ground hardwood mulch or a ground cypress mulch depending on your local availability. We do not recommend using straight topsoil or compost as a back-fill soil because more times...
Apply an early spring fertilizer with a product at the recommended rate this will give the plant like , which will give a boost of nitrogen and potash that will be needed for healthy foliage and stem growth.
We highly recommend that you mulch your Heuchera Autumn Bride with either a ground hardwood mulch or a ground cypress mulch depending on your local availability. We do not recommend using straight topsoil or compost as a back-fill soil because more times...
A good rule is that you should still be able to see the soil the plant was grown in after back-filling the hole. This is especially important during periods of high humidity. Evergreen, glossy, oval leaves turn the most fabulous shade of red at the onset...
This is not to be rushed. In warmer climates, cut it back in the spring before it begins to bud. A general rule of thumb is to count to 5 for every one gallon of pot size. Aster Divaricatus reliably blooms on the seasons new growth, so prune to the ground...
Geranium maculatum forms a mound of foliage that grows to 24″ tall and 18″ wide. Flowers give way to distinctive, beaked seed capsules which give rise to the common name of crane's bill.
* An easily grown plant, so long as the soil does not dry out. * An herbaceous perennial with lemon yellow flowers to 2", May to August; much planted in gardens, where it likes rich moist soil in sun or part shade; native to Europe, where it grows in...
* An easily grown plant, so long as the soil does not dry out. * An herbaceous perennial with lemon yellow flowers to 2", May to August; much planted in gardens, where it likes rich moist soil in sun or part shade; native to Europe, where it grows in...
