The Pink Lady Slipper Flower
The Pink Lady Slipper Flower is also known as the moccasin flower. It is very own much admired and often misunderstood wild native orchid...
The Little Wild Rosa Canina
Rosa canina is a wild rose. The fact that most roses in our gardens have ample petals? While wild roses have a handful of...
Jasmine: The Evergreen Flower That Captivates Through the Seasons
Jasmines may twine to some extent, but as a group, they’re really in the category of shrubs. Some have long, arching stems, and are...
Cosmos Flower: Ideal Plant For The Back of Your Garden
The most common varieties are hybrids of Cosmos bipinnatus, a half-hardy annual with daisy-like flowers sometimes as large as four inches across, and beautiful...
Pachysandra Terminalis: An Excellent Plant Around Tree Trunks
Pachysandra Terminalis
Few ground covers make such a thick, dense evergreen bed as Pachysandra Terminalis. It doesn’t do its job overnight, but wait, for as...
Snapdragon – Perennials Grown Half Hardy Annuals
Snapdragon (Antirrhinum Majus) are perennials grown as half-hardy annuals. Flowers grow on spikes of varying heights, from six inches to four feet. Rocket varieties...
Peony Flower: Classified Doubles Huge Round Balls with Many Petals
Peony flowers are classified as “doubles” huge round balls with many petals, however, semi-doubles with fewer petals and “single” with one sparser row of...
How to Grow Pulmonaria Plant
Pulmonaria plant used to be called “lungwort. Its spotted leaves resembled diseased lungs and, in the homeopathic tradition of folk medicine, were thus supposed...
Red Clover-Trifolium Pratense
Red Clover-Trifolium Pratense is commonly found throughout the northern hemisphere. It is also found in Western Asia, Europe, and Northwest Africa. However, it has...
How to Grow Pink Dianthus in Garden
Pink Dianthus flowers are often pink but are sometimes shades of red or white. Sometimes Dianthus are marked with several colors. Some are shaped...