For a lasting impression and year-round interest try evergreen shrubs. We are all familiar with hollies and boxwoods, the classic short hedges, the ones that reliably maintain there deep colors all year long. The reliability of evergreens is great for landscaping because it reduces the amount of maintenance required to keep an aesthetically pleasing garden. [...]
Plant a nice tree any time of the year or grow a tropical tree out of sone by planting in a container. Containers give you the freedom to bring those plants in over the winter, and to avoid letting your climate or the time of the year dictate when you get the exotic plant that [...]
If you want to attract Butterflies or Birds this summer, maybe you could try some of these things: Choose a sunny location. Butterflies and most butterfly-attracting plants require full sun. Select single rather than double flowers, because they are easier for butterflies and hummingbirds to get to. Plant nectar-producing flowers of bright colors. Butterflies prefer [...]
With a range of hybrid varieties to rival any plant family on the market, lilies are ever popular and ever stunning. There are so many varieties, with new items available almost daily, that it is hard to pick a favorite. There is a lily for everybody. The name is often borrowed, calla lily, day lily, [...]
Daylilies, known as Hemerocallis fulva by botanists, are naturalized throughout much of America. They are especially hardy in warm dry areas. The orange colored blossoms are often seen along roadsides and in abandoned home gardens during June and July. All cultivated varieties of daylily are edible. Flowers and flower buds of daylilies are delicious and [...]
Mother’s Day is Sunday, May 13th that is next weekend, so if you don’t have the perfect gift, you better hurry. Try a Wayside Gardens Gift Certificate. If your mother is anything like my mother, she loves plants, and, usually, just because they are from you, she will like them no matter which plants you [...]
Rhododendron is a very prolific genus of plants with many species native to most areas north of the equator and over 28,000 cultivated varieties grown by gardeners. They are often grown for there flowers, rhododendron varieties, especially azaleas are very popular for gardeners as decorative small trees and shrubs. They are known to be especially [...]