A gardenia you can rely on! This gardenia has all the features you need. Continuous blooming, cold hardiness, and heat tolerance. You won’t need to be concerned about flower buds withering from severe weather since Steady as She Goes® will keep blooming until the first frost. Moreover, it has beautifully coordinated glossy, evergreen leaves.
Read MorePLANT OF THE DAY – STORMY SKYE DAYLILY
This reblooming daylily makes a huge statement with its dramatic color. The large flowers are a lovely pink shade with deep burgundy eyes and ruffled petal edges lined in the same vivid burgundy.
Read MorePLANT OF THE DAY – DELICIOUS NOUGAT CONEFLOWER
What’s the best thing about Coneflower? They are a perfect specimen for a wildlife garden. attracting bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds. Delicious Nougat is a compact variety with creamy white petals and a puffy, lime green center.
Read MorePLANT OF THE DAY – PHENOMENAL FRENCH LAVENDER
Lavender is such a wonderful specimen for a garden for so many reasons. Phenomenal French Lavender will not disappoint at any level. It has an elegant growing pattern and displays a sweetly fragrant mound of silver foliage combined with purple-blue flower spikes. Along with its ornamental attributes, it’s edible.
Read MoreDECORATING YOUR FRONT PORCH
One of the biggest trends in 2023 outdoor living is a focus on front yard design. While backyard living spaces will always be a priority when it comes to usable living space and expanding living spaces, we’ve noticed a trend toward dressing up front yards for visible curb appeal. Just like any other room in the house, a front porch can be decorated.
Read MorePLANT OF THE DAY – PINK-A-BOO CAMELLIA
Pink-A-Boo Camellia is the perfect plant for your cool-season garden. It belongs in a spot where it gets filtered sun, full or partial shade. It may handle the winter in a sunnier spot, but the hot, hot summer sun will not be this plant’s friend. A favorite with landscapers because it brings welcome color to a cool season garden, this camellia is a nice change from the winter red camellias.
Read MorePLANT OF THE DAY – BLUE JEAN BABY RUSSIAN SAGE
What makes Blue Jean Baby so special? For one, it’s a shorter, more compact variety that is super full with upright stems that resist flopping over. It’s one of the earliest to bloom, beginning in Midsummer and continuing to produce blooms into the Fall.
Read MoreOCTOBER LANDSCAPING TO DO LIST
It’s beginning to look a lot like Fall. Cooler temps, a little more rain, and some dreaded nor’easters. But that doesn’t end the landscaping season and certainly shouldn’t keep you from completing some important tasks and fun decorating ideas.
Read MorePLANT OF THE DAY – DWARF JAPANESE GARDEN JUNIPER
Described as “a dense mound of ground-hugging branches that radiate from the center” this plant has a bonsai style and tight foliage with a blue-green tint. If your style of garden is Asian/Zen, contemporary, or even slightly rustic, then this plant will feel right at home in one of your beds or even as a potted accent plant for your patio or zen rock garden.
Read MorePLANT OF THE DAY – BABY JOE DWARF PYE WEED
Joe Pye Weed is a compact plant with super showy, mauve-purplish dome-shaped flowers that bloom from late summer and into early fall. It’s a great addition for borders if you need some vertical interest.
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