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The Best Annuals and Perennials for Stunning Fall Color

September 30, 2025DrDans

As summer disappears and the days grow short, your landscape can continue to shine with vibrant color. Fall is the perfect time to showcase a beautiful display of flowers and foliage that thrive in lower temperatures and shorter days. By carefully choosing annuals and perennials that peak in autumn, you can create a tapestry of brilliant reds, golds, purples, and oranges that extend the beauty of your landscape well past the first frost. Here’s a guide to the best annuals and perennials to plant for spectacular fall color.

The Naturally Healthy Benefits of Lavender and How to Use It

September 24, 2025September 24, 2025DrDans

Lavender is well-known for its fragrant blooms and calming purple hues, but this versatile plant offers much more than aesthetic appeal. For centuries, lavender has been valued for its health-enhancing properties. Whether used in teas, oils, or even culinary dishes, lavender provides a range of benefits that support both physical and mental well-being. Adding a few lavender plants to your landscape will help you utilize these benefits.

PLANT OF THE DAY – SUNSEEKERS PUMPKIN PIE CONEFLOWER

July 14, 2025July 14, 2025DrDans

Pumpkin Pie Coneflower is a perennial plant. Throughout the summer, an abundance of lovely semi-double flowers bloom on this lovely coneflower variety. Nectar-rich green cones are surrounded by layers of orange petals. The orange tone fades to pink tones after beginning with more yellow. This sun-loving perennial draws pollinators, and makes a great cut flower, as well.

Favorite Perennial Varieties to Add to Your Landscape

May 14, 2025DrDans

Nothing brings on a fresh wave of excitement as much as selecting a new crop of perennials for your landscape. Perennials are known for their resilience and ability to bloom year after year, and have always been a favorite among gardeners. This year, consider adding some new varieties offering not only aesthetic appeal but also improved adaptability to environmental changes.

PLANT OF THE DAY – BLUE JEAN BABY RUSSIAN SAGE

November 1, 2022DrDans

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.

PLANT OF THE WEEK – WINTER JEWELS BLACK DIAMOND HELLEBORE

April 6, 2021July 26, 2023DrDans

This is easily one of my favorite late winter to early spring bloomers. The darkest of purple color is so unique and it always reminds me that warm weather is just moments away. Single blossoms in shades of dark purple to almost black are an ideal complement to beds and borders. Call them hellebores or Lenten Roses, but their captivating charm is the same.

PLANT OF THE WEEK – ROZANNE GERANIUM

June 25, 2020July 26, 2023DrDans

If a long-blooming perennial is something you’re searching for, then Rozanne Geranium needs to be on your list. It’s an award winner that will bring your garden masses of gorgeous, blueish purple blooms from early in the spring until the end of the summer. It’s a spreading geranium that allows it’s evergreen foliage to continue in climates that experience mild winters.

PLANT OF THE WEEK – BEAUTY YELLOW MARGUERITE DAISY

June 18, 2020July 26, 2023DrDans

Beauty Yellow Marguerite Daisy produces spectacular bright lemon-yellow daisies with a resistance to heat and drought..

PLANT OF THE WEEK – LUSCIOUS CITRUS BLEND LANTANA

June 8, 2020July 26, 2023DrDans

Luscious Citrus Blend Lantana is a beautiful summer flowering plant that will bring a welcome splash of bright color to your yard all summer long. With it’s red, orange and yellow color tones, it produces a vibrant display of color.

PLANT OF THE WEEK – LITTLE REDHEAD SPIGELIA

May 27, 2020July 26, 2023DrDans

You’re probably asking yourself…what is a Spigelia? As beautiful as it is, it’s not the easiest plant to obtain and it’s very underutilized. That said, we predict to see it more and more often as people discover this beautiful plant and it’s versatility.