Archives: Plants

Purple Coneflower Summer brings a wide variety of blooms to my garden. Some are exotic and come from faraway places and others, like purple coneflowers,

As my garden transition from fall to winter I am able to once again see the subtle beauties that have been obscured over the past

When I design gardens in shady areas I depend more on the texture of plants than on flowers to create visual interest. The play of

Blazing star (Liatris sp.) takes its name from the dazzling magenta-purple flower spikes that shoot from the low clump of grassy foliage that forms the

One of my favorite plant stories is about ‘Miss Wilmott’s Ghost’ sea holly (Eryngium giganteum). This perennial made its way into popularity with the help

There is a flower blooming in my garden that has quietly captured my heart. It is a North American native wildflower called helenium. I have

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I know why the garden writer Elizabeth Lawrence, in her book The Little Bulb, described autumn crocus as “a lovely ghost that comes to haunt

Once you start growing salvias you’ll find it difficult to stop. Every variety I grow adds so much to my garden, but none are more

When browsing through plant selections I often think in terms of groupings rather than the merits of an individual variety. When I see an interesting