AMBER SUZANNAColors: Pink and whiteUses: Container, landscape, house plantComments: Double flowers tolerate temperature extremesAUDREYColors: Red-and-yellow marblingUses: ContainerComments: Prolific bloomerBONNIE BC
Fall is the best time to do this; cooler weather allows roots to become well established through winter. Follow these steps to get ornamentals off to a good start.Step 1: Dig a hole no deeper than the rootball and a
Whats not to love about lavender? Flowers of many varieties have a fragrance so heady that theyre used to make potpourri, soap, and perfume; some are also used in cooking.Most lavenders dry beautifully for bouquets
• Foliage perennial• Zones 1-10, 12-21• Shade• Regular wateringHostas are favorites for the shade garden. Hundreds are available in nurseries and from specialty catalogs, from 6-inch dwarfs to 5-foot giants; the ran
Old garden roses are the forerunners of modern hybrid teas. These heirloom types are valued for their fragrance, long life, resistance to disease and pests, and tolerance of soil types and temperature extremes. One
The blazing yellow torch lilies (Kniphofia) in Barbara Dunos Santa Fe garden look like pampered prima donnas. The truth is, though, despite their showy appearance, these rugged South African perennials are well suit
Every host has done it: While picking up some last-minute ingredients at the supermarket, you snag a cellophane-wrapped spray of flowers, bring it home, and plunk it into a vase ― where, well, it just kind of sits t
Pacific Northwest: Currant event
Red flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum) ranks among the earliest-blooming shrubs in Northwest gardens. Drooping clusters of red, scarlet, pink, or white flowers appear in early March, just as the plants maplelike l
Paradise under glass in Salt Lake City
In 1975, with only $1,000, Lorraine Miller opened a tiny plant shop in Salt Lake City. Plunging into a horticultural career represented a major shift for Miller, who holds a degree in history and once worked as a me
For sheer drama, few plants can compete with spring-blooming bulbs. Starting early in the season, straight green stems of daffodils and tulips shoot up like magic from the ground. Then the flowers unfurl.As sweet as
Too busy to deadhead annuals? Then plant varieties that grow right over their spent flowers and keep pumping out blooms. Trailing petunias are a good example (look for Cascadia, Supertunia, Surfinia, or the Wave ser
Some fleshy-leafed house plants can be propagated quickly and easily from leaf cuttings--one of the best methods for ensuring identical new plants. Try this technique to expand your collection of African violets, Ca
Shasta daisy, Chrysanthemum superbum (Leucanthemum superbum)
• Zones 1-24, 26 (Northern part), 28-43• Full sun; partial shade in hot-summer climates• Regular wateringBotanists have changed this plants name several times over the years; at one point it was removed from Chrysan
Annual clary (Salvia viridis Claryssa). 18-inch stems covered with showy dark-veined pink, purple, and white bracts. Dries well.Bishops lace (Ammi majus). Snowflake-shaped clusters of small, bright white flowers. Cl
Annuals and perennials in 4-inch nursery pots are inexpensive alternatives to bigger plants in gallon cans. And the smaller plants will catch up soon.Before planting, amend the soil with organic matter and dunk the
There are dozens of reasons Laguna Beach landscape designer Jeff Powers of Earthscaping likes fairy lily (Zephyranthes candida). For one thing, though its a bulb, its grassy leaves are evergreen and somewhat succule
The perfect cottage garden rose
Its a traffic stopper! says landscape designer Lynn Robinson of the spectacular Phyllis Bide rose in front of her Santa Cruz cottage. Each spring, clusters of dainty apricot to cream blooms open along the canes unti
The profusion of blooms that fills the Cutting Garden flower farm and gardens on Washingtons Olympic Peninsula is so thick and colorful that it practically glows in the bright summer sun. Foxtail lilies stand tall o
Shrubs• Evergreen or deciduous• Climate zones vary• Full sun or partial shade• Regular to moderate wateringTheir ability to endure extremes of soil and weather makes the barberries, especially the deciduous sorts, g
White flowers remind us of freshly fallen snow, of course. But shades of white stir up other seasonal memories too: icicles glistening from trees on winter mornings, your breath forming cloudy puffs on walks, the an
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