Recently I’ve been looking through all the new 2010 spring perennial catalogs and have noticed that they are all full of new hybrid echinaceas or what we used to call purple coneflowers. I guess we are going to have to abandon the “purple” phrase as these new coneflowers are available in orange, pink, red, creamy [...]
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Roses will grow in most all areas of the US. The American Rose Society names 48 classifications for roses, but most of the roses grown in the US can by and large be said to fall into one of the following types: hybrid tea, miniature, floribunda, grandiflora, climber, polyantha, shrub and English or old garden [...]
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Plant Daylilies for Easy Color
My first attempts at gardening with perennials where disastrous and educational. It seemed that nothing I planted would grow. I was new to gardening and didn’t realize that plants needed more than dirt and water to grow. I learned the hard way that some plants needed sun while others needed shade [...]
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Many gardeners are intimidated by intense color of orange and shy away from this wonderful color. I have even heard some people comment that they would never use orange in their perennial borders and some going so far as to call it an ugly flower color. While do we agree that flower colors don’t come [...]
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