Excellent cut flower. Very large carnation shaped flowers with incurved petals, freely produced in clusters. You can plant other peonies with staggered bloom times to extend the total peony bloom period to approximately 6 weeks during May and June.
Any type of mulch will do but cypress or hardwood mulch will be of a higher quality and provide better nutrition overall as they breakdown. Fall pruning, especially in colder climates, can result in a quick flush of new growth that prevents dormancy and...
Ice Ballet prefers to be planted in full sun and needs well drained soil. Use in mass plantings, as a border plant, or as a tall ground cover. Grow Ice Ballet as a Beautiful Monarch Butterfly Habitat Plant No butterfly garden would be complete without...
* Yellow Non Invasive Grass * Deer Resistant * Container Plant or Border * Fragrant butter-yellow blades The rich golden yellow and green foliage grows to 10 inches high, with a 1 foot spread.
Tolerates light shade, but best in full sun. Rudbeckia goldstrum is a beautiful native plant that is a beacon for butterflies and bees. Beautiful and versatile, outstanding in mass plantings as well as perennial borders, meadows and prairie gardens.
Hybrid hellebores are often grown from seed (some come true and some don't), but plants will take two years to bloom when grown from seed. Large variety of color combinations and patterns.
The sturdy stems of Sedum Autumn Fire keep it beautifully intact throughout its bloom period for an outstanding show! Uses: Extremely attractive when used as a focal point in the mixed border, mass planting.
Our ideal fertilizer schedule for you to use is as follows. We suggest when planting your newly purchased Dwarf Mondo Grass plants that you dig a hole twice as wide as the root system but not deeper.
The leaves are a preferred food source for caterpillars of Monarch Butterflies. This colorful flower should be in everyone's sunny butterfly garden. Adding compost or topsoil will help the young feeder roots to spread through the loose, nutrient rich...
After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and compost give the Achillea Strawberry Seduction a good deep watering. Ideal in sunny beds and borders. Follow this up with another early summer application of , this will again...
Ornamental Grass with Stately Purple Plumes Purple Fountain Grass, Pennisetum setaceum 'Rubrum', is an ornamental grass that is brilliant and beautiful year round. Plant one or several today! * Drough & heat resistant * Tall summer purple plumes * Year...
They are best planted in full sun in a well-drained area. Although they are short lived, they reseed themselves. It is a wonderful new array of pastels to add to the garden. The large blooms of Alcea ‘Peaches ‘n Dreams' Hollyhock flower in the summer...
Cutting back will promote new growth, giving you a healthier plant with stronger stems. We highly recommend that you mulch your Daylily Round Midnight with either a ground hardwood mulch or a ground cypress mulch depending on your local availability.
Features large, cup-shaped, rose-like, usually nodding flowers (3-4″ diameter) with center crowns of conspicuously contrasting yellow stamens. Locate plants in areas protected from cold winter winds.
The gorgeous, purple blooms are very fragrant and attract butterflies to the garden. In regions with clay soils, a raised bed or rock garden will improve success greatly. Plants should be clipped back by half in spring.
Pond edges and moist borders welcome these glowing white blooms with a lime-green center to soften bold colors or to compliment pale pinks and blues. Blooms early to mid summer (later than both bearded and Siberian iris).
This selection forms a bushy mound of silver foliage, with long spikes of purple-blue flowers. This is a very large, hedging lavender that can be used to create a border around the garden and also can be grown as a cut and dried flower for potpourri and...
Blooms last well cut or dried, and the seeds in the large cone at the center of the flower head provide nourishment for birds when finished blooming. Showy daisy-like purple coneflowers (to 5″ diameter) bloom throughout summer atop stiff stems clad...
Remove the brown stems and leaves to give your plant a healthier and more attractive appearance. In warmer climates, cut it back in the spring before it begins to bud. Mulching helps to keep weeds away which will compete with your new investment for water...
Our ideal fertilizer schedule for you to use is as follows. Espoma products are easy to use, just sprinkle around the base of the plant and water it in. Remove the old flowers of Coreopsis Zagreb as they become brown and unattractive.
A garden favorite for years, it's fairly tall at 3′, and has evenly spaced pink hearts suspended gracefully on its long stems. Remember that it goes dormant in mid-summer. With such showy flowers, they deserve to be in the front of the shade garden.
The chartreuse foliage will stand out in any shady garden, be it in a pot, garden bed, or as a mass planting. Effective as an edger along paths or walkways. Mass as in a group as a ground cover .
It typically grows to 2-4′ tall. Forms a neat, compact mound with sturdy upright stems that need no deadheading. ‘Echinacea Pow Wow White' is a white-flowered coneflower that typically grows in an upright clump to 2-3′ tall and to 1-1.5′ wide...
Synonymous with Easily grown in average, medium to wet soils in full sun to part shade. Pond edges and moist borders welcome these stately blue blooms. In order to meet these somewhat unusual seasonal cultural requirements, plants may be grown in pots...
Flowers appear at the tips of branched stems clad with evergreen dark green leaves which are divided into glossy, leathery, deeply-lobed, often toothed, lanceolate to elliptic segments.
It makes a great woodland ground cover and “spiller” for containers. Cool season plant. Plant patented. Clusters of deep magenta-purple flowers are larger than all other varieties, appearing in spring then continuing off and on until fall.
Late-summer cutback can be beneficial if plants start to "birdnest." Use gloves since sap may irritate skin of susceptible individuals. It is great enhancement of the common spurge! 'Bonfire' has a nice mounding habit with foliage that is resistant to...
