Daylilies are some of the easiest perennials to grow. Learn how to grow daylilies, and experience this fabulous plant in your own garden.
You'll get more blooms on your sedums and avoid having them split and flop over later in the season if you tip prune them now. Here's how:
Bergamot is a magnet for bees and other pollinators. Learn how to grow bergamot, and fill your garden with this interesting plant.
Medinilla magnifica is small evergreen shrub native to the Philippines where it is usually found growing on trees in tropical forests. It has been grown for hundreds of years as an exotic houseplant.
Primulas, often called primroses, are one of the earliest perennial plants to bloom in spring. They're very easy to divide if you do it early enough.
When they come in droves, grasshoppers can cause massive damage to crops and gardens! Find out how to protect your plants from grasshoppers.
Don't use a herbicide on your weeds—use a natural weed killer instead! Learn how to spray or smother weeds to make them go away for good.
Although you might mistake the title of this post for an 80’s rock ballad, I’m referring to a plant with the common name of “Bleeding Heart”. The flowers do look like little dropping hearts. The method I’m going to show you of creating multiple plants out of one, works not only for Bleeding Hearts…
How long does it take for a Hoya Kerrii to grow? Find the answer and the best care tips to keep your Hoya healthy in our comprehensive guide!
Summer squash are prolific producers. But do you know how and when to harvest zucchini for peak flavor? Learn how right here.
Garden fence ideas provide creative solutions for defining boundaries, adding privacy, and enhancing the visual appeal of outdoor landscapes.
Get to know this selection of spilling and draping plants. - by Roger Fox
Dreaming big, but limited by a lack of acreage? Here are 14 expert tips to help you live large in small yard.
If there are spots in your garden that never seem to flourish no matter what you try, our planting plans can help. Download our free guides.
Create stunning, easy care and long-lasting border combinations like this one. Inspired from prairie planting, this modern and natural planting combines the rich, cool purple flower spikes of ornamental Sage (Salvia) with the billowing blooms of Mexican Feather Grass (Stipa tenuissima), providing an attractive contrast and airiness to this border.
The smaller gardens at RHS Hampton Court 2022 were simply delightful. Jean Vernon explores some of these amazing spaces.
Eucalyptus is not only great against the common cold, it can also be used in homemade products. Learn to grow this plant yourself.
Learn how to integrate art into your plant science activities by having students make chlorophyll paintings. Similar to leaf rubbings, this simple science based art project is a fun and creative extension for teaching kids about photosynthesis.
Hedges provides shelter, muffles sound, divides the garden into 'rooms', makes a nice backdrop to the border and, most importantly, gives privacy. Using plants to create privacy is not only a friendly way to keep out prying eyes of passers-by, it also makes your garden space greener.
Define your lawn borders with these unique and beautiful ideas. From edging bricks to artificial grass, we have 20 options to inspire your landscaping.
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Hoyas provide beautiful foliage in many shapes, colors, and textures. Discover 29 of the most fabulous types of hoyas for your home, now on Gardener’s Path.
Dealing with those hot, sun-drenched spots in your garden can feel like a landscaping puzzle. But what if the solution was as simple as choosing the right
A compact garden will give you the perks of living near nature while occupying little space. Check out some great Small City Garden Ideas here.
Each year an especially beautiful, useful and sturdy plant is selected as Perennial Plant of the Year by the Perennial Plant Association, which is made up of landscape designers, contractors, growers, retailers, and educators in the herbaceous perennial industry. 'Rozanne' hardy geranium was selected as the 2008 Perennial Plant of the Year. In addition to this award, 'Rozanne' was selected as Plant of the Centenary at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Truly this is an amazing plant to receive such honors, and I have nearly twenty of them growing in my landscape. What is it that makes this plant so useful? It grows in zones 5-8 in sun or part shade. The long bloom time is amazing - from June until an October hard frost in my garden, with no deadheading necessary. The spent flowers just curl up and disappear without leaving an ugly mess. It doesn't reseed or spread outside of its original clump. Basically it's like a perennial Supertunia - loads of color for months with very little maintenance, but then it comes back the next year. It makes a nice companion for hydrangeas like 'Tiny Tuff Stuff,' above. It mixes nicely with many other colors, including the steel blue of ornamental thistle (Echinops 'Ritro'). Yellow myrtle spurge (Euphorbia myrsinitis) is another good match for 'Rozanne.' Even though it starts blooming with the roses in June, 'Rozanne' is still blooming when the Japanese anemones flower in fall. 'Rozanne' happily winds through taller shrubs like this corkscrew hazel (Corylus avellana 'Contorta'). At the end of fall when leaves from surrounding trees are falling, 'Rozanne' continues to flower until a hard frost finally sends it into dormancy for winter. Some sources say 'Rozanne' has good fall color, but I've only noticed a little bit of red on my plants in fall. Here it is next to a 'Shasta' doublefile viburnum (V. plicatum tomentosum). With all of these good attributes, are there any drawbacks to including a 'Rozanne' geranium in your garden? Well, it's rampant growth might be a challenge in a small garden. Some sources suggest planting it 12" apart, but I think that's much too close. In the first year after planting it may stay in a small clump like the one above . . . . . . but a few years after planting it may grow to six feet wide, like the plant above in my front yard. Unlike many other groundcovers, the stems don't root at nodes. And as I mentioned earlier, 'Rozanne' doesn't send out spreading rhizomes or reseed. The plant will die back to the ground in winter and start growing in spring from a small clump, but those stems sure grow long by the end of the season! I'd recommend giving it at least three feet of room to grow, and even then you'll need to trim it back before the end of the season. Another challenge with 'Rozanne' is finding the perfect amount of light. This plant is too shaded, so you can see how it's grown too tall and flopped over to expose the unsightly base. But with too much hot sun or not enough water the leaves will get scorched by midsummer. You can cut it back hard after a heatwave has left it crunchy and it will sprout fresh leaves. But my plants that grow in morning sun with afternoon shade keep a nice shape and fresh leaves throughout the growing season. 'Rozanne' is not reliably deer resistant, so it might not be the best choice if you have deer problems. It does attract lots of honey bees and bumble bees, so if you're allergic you shouldn't plant this in your yard. But I recommend this plant to almost all of my friends for their gardens. Even if it requires a little trimming to control the size, its long season of color with little maintenance makes it a valuable addition to nearly every garden. It is one of my favorites, and well deserving of the honors it has received.
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Hostas are easy to divide, creating multiple plants from one. This is best done in early spring. This post explains how to split hostas.
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The practice of “Companion Planting”, a centuries-old gardening tradition, follows the theory that different plant species, planted close together, assist each other with nutrient production and ab…
Wondering when and how to harvest homegrown cabbage? Learn the details of plucking this tasty and healthful cruciferous vegetable now at Gardener’s Path.
Hostas are easy to divide, creating multiple plants from one. This is best done in early spring. This post explains how to split hostas.
Blooms come and go, but foliage can last all season. Grow these eye-catching, interesting plants with variegated foliage. They’ll light up your garden!
Create a butterfly- and bird-friendly landscape with these garden plans. Each design includes a mix of plants that can provide nectar, seeds, and shelter to wildlife. Add a water source to further enhance the habitat.
5 perennial garden ideas to make your garden POP! You HAVE to plant these in your garden this year! #perennials #gardening #gardenideas #flowers
With their showy blooms, there’s a myriad of different types of orchid cacti. Discover 23 of the most fabulous types of epiphyllums, now on Gardener’s Path.
Strawberries are a great plant to grow, as there’s nothing quite like a truly ripe (not picked sort of ripe so they ship well) strawberry from your own garden. When most people think of strawberry plants, they think of what I’ll call “regular” strawberries–they grow big berries and send out lots and lots of runners,…
