Plant Spotlights
Very specific information that clears up questions and confusion about certain plants.
- Peonies
Peonies produce enormous blooms and enormous fragrance, and are so very easy to grow.
- Catmint is NOT Catnip
Catnip and Catmint are in fact quite different plants with different characteristics.
- Boxwood Blight
Before your dig up and burn all your blighted boxwood shrubs, be sure you have correctly diagnosed. Boxwood are after all notorious for being afflicted by winter desiccation and drought.
- Endless (? ?) Summer Hydrangea
Subzero winters can put a damper on Endless Summer blooms. What you need to do to increase blooming in the North.
- Grow Milkweed for Monarchs
Although milkweed attract many insects for different reasons, milkweed was "made" for Monarch butterflies. What you need to know about growing the many varieties of milkweed that support Monarchs.
- Garden Mums
Everything you need to know for beautiful fall chrysanthemums that come back every year.