Grow Milkweeds : Support beneficial butterflies and insects to add intriguing beauty to your garden Asclepias is a genus of hardy perennial plants that belong to the family Apocynaceae and [...]
In the garden, Colchicum or meadow saffron, is a beautiful and intriguing bulb with two seasons of interest: the first in the spring with beautiful, lush foliage and the second in the fall when the white, pink or purple-pink flowers are produced in profusion.
Fall is one of the best times to plant perennials, vines, shrubs, and trees. Learn about the benefits of fall planting and some tips for success.
Haworthia is a lesser-known genus in the world of succulents — especially relative to favourites like Echeveria, Aeonium, Agave, and Aloe — but it is a spectacular and fascinating group of small succulent plants with an incredible diversity of structures, patterns, and colours. Haworthia also have cool evolutionary innovations that help them survive in the challenging, semi-arid environments of southern Africa and make them more beautiful and more intriguing.
Hellebores are an incredible group of evergreen perennials for gardeners from zone 3 to zone 9. In warmer zones, they are winter and early spring-blooming plants providing colour from late November through April. In colder zones, they bloom in late winter and early spring as soon as the snow melts. In any zone they provide interest when most other plants are soundly dormant bringing forth the first major burst of colour for the season.
In Phoenix Perennials owner Gary Lewis's article in Fine Gardening Magazine, take 10 plants you've always liked and consider 10 exciting alternatives that you just might love.
Erythronium is a genus of shady bulbs from North America and Eurasia that form beautiful carpets of ephemeral spring flowers on the forest floors of their native regions. They are known as fawn lilies, trout lilies, and dogtooth violets. They can be used for beautiful early spring displays in the shade garden.
You can plant new plants all summer long. A few careful steps are all that is required to successfully plant new perennials, shrubs, and trees during the dog days of summer.
