Perennial Garden Blog
This is the "timely" stuff, the information that catches my eye whether it be an award-winning plant or a new introduction in my garden or whatever is going on in the world of perennial flowers.
Call it a news channel, call it a blog, call it whatever - it's whatever catches my fancy and I think is worth sharing with you.
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Three Perennial Shade Plants That Are Out of the Ordinary
Here are three perennial shade plants I invite you to hunt out and grow. They may not be readily available in your local garden center but a little ...
The Best Perennial Flowers for Fall Gardening One of the most plaintive sounds echoing over the gardening hills in September is the call of the bloomless gardener. This poor specimen of humanity has ...
An Idiot Weed-Eated My Phlox! Hello, a well-meaning, but stupid, person just weed-eated all my tall phlox all the way to the ground. It was already about 8 inches tall. We have had ...
Building Raised Garden Beds
When it comes to growing perennials in raised garden beds, you're going to have to make sure you grow the hardier varieties.
More tender ones may suffer ...
Four Basic Perennial Flower Garden Design Ideas
If I were to give you a few basic perennial flower garden ideas for design, they would be as follows:
Limit Your Enthusiasm
Only use a limited ...
Five Low-Work Perennials Let’s look at some great low-work perennial plants. The main criteria for getting onto this list is that the plant is rock-hardy, flowers for a long ...
Columbine Flowers Columbine flowers have long been one of my favorite plants and when I had my nursery, I had all manner of collector species scattered here and there throughout ...
Cheap Perennials So want to buy perennials. There are several options that you have: you can buy cheap perennials based on price, you can buy brand-new perennials that ...
Frost Heaving
I've included these two pictures to show you the effects of a poor fall establishment of these perennial flowers.
If you look closely, you'll see spaces ...
Pruning Perennial Hellebore
When it comes to pruning perennials in the spring, here is a perfect example of how a garden changes shape and looks so much better.
Hellebore is one ...
A small secret about perennials
It's one of those secrets nurseries don't willingly share with customers but I"m here to deliver the bad news.
Plants die.
Ah yes, plants die ...
Perennials that bloom all summer
Perennials that bloom all summer are (quite unfortunately) a rather short list. But here's the list with links to how to grow these perennial flowers.
And ...
Rudbeckia Denver Daisy The American Garden Award - a popular vote of visitors/gardeners to 18 public garden has just tabulated the votes and Rudbeckia 'Denver Daisy' has been ...
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