Growing Guide for Amaranth “Amaranth is a versatile and vibrant plant, renowned for its brightly colored flowers and nutritious seeds. It’s a popular choice in gardens for both its ornamental beauty and its edible leaves and seeds. Amaranth plants are tough and fast-growing, often reaching impressive heights, and can add a dramatic effect to your…
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Annual Flowers – When to Plant Them – Starting Seeds Indoors
Most Annual Flower Seeds Need No Cold Stratification What Is Cold Stratification of Seeds? Some seeds, especially those of the perennial native wildflowers, need to be placed in a cold place for a period before the time for germination. It is okay if those seeds are stored in a refrigerator, but I choose to sow…
Perennial Summer Garden Plan with Helianthus Sunflowers 12′ x 12′
Image Credit: Better Homes and Gardens This is a Free Better Homes and Gardens Plan. Plants for Creating the Easy-Care Summer Garden Plan “While the plants in this garden plan aren’t picky about soil, site them in full sun for maximum blooming. Keep them well watered the first year after planting. After that, these…
Flower Seeds that Require Cold Stratification
Milkweed (Asclepias) Lupine (Lupinus) St. John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum) Prairie Coneflower (Ratibida) Prairie Violet (Viola pedatifida) Pincushion Flower (Scabiosa) Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris) Perennial Sunflowers (Helianthus) Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum) Rudbeckia (most varieties) Coneflower (some varieties) Soapwort (Saponaria ocymoides) Primrose (Oenothera speciosa) Larkspur (Delphinium) Shooting Star (Dodecatheon meadia) Heliopsis Lavender/Hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) Catmint (nepeta) Ironweed (Vernonia gigantea) Prairie Violet Image Credit: American Meadows Height 3″ – 6″ Soapwort Image Credit:…
Shade Garden Plants
White Lamium [Nancy] Image Credit: American Meadows Height: 6″ – 8″ Orchid Frost Lamium| Image Credit: American Meadows Height: 6″ – 8″ Catlin’s Giant Ajuga. Image Credit: American Meadows Height: 3″ – 9 “ Black Scallop Ajuga. Image Credit: American Meadows Height: 4″ – 6 “ Angelique Fragrant Begonia Image Credit: American Meadows Height: 8″…
Plans for a Fragrant Repeat-Blooming Rose Garden – Filled with the Scent of Old Roses – Mixed with Compatible Native Perennials for a Shabby Chic Cottage Garden
Silas Marner Rose Image Credit: David Austin Fragrance: Old Rose Height: 4.5′ Repeat Bloomer Desdemona Rose Image Credit: David Austin Fragrance: Strong Old Rose Height: 4′ Repeat Bloomer Harlow Carr Rose Image Credit: David Austin Fragrance: Old Rose Height: 4′ Repeat Bloomer Image Credit: Zéphirine Drouhin Image Credit: Heirloom Roses Fragrance – Bourbon Rose…
Perennial Meadow Pollinator Native Plants + Fragrant Roses + Strawberries Garden Plan
I Am Planting 2 of These Collections in 2025 2 x Joe Pye Weed 2Â x Wild Bergamot (Bee Balm) 2x Blue Vervain 2 x Aromatic Aster 2Â x Ice Ballet Swamp Milkweed Aromatic Aster Image Credit: American Meadows Height: 1′-3′ Wild Bergamot Bee Balm Image Credit: American Meadows Height: 2′-4′Ice Ballet Swamp Milkweed Image…
Repeat Flowering Roses – David Austin
Silas Marner Rose Height 3’4′ Old Rose Fragrance Description “An unfussy rose of soft mid pink, the petals are pale on the reverse and fade at the edges creating a gentle quality. Held on red stems, the medium-sized cupped blooms have relaxed, almost ruffled petals which are set around an attractive button eye. There is…
What Is A Cottage Garden? A Cottage Garden Is an Attitude — A Way of Life
What Is A Cottage Garden? In quick response: A Cottage Garden Begins with an Informal Garden But A Cottage Garden Is More than a Garden–It is an Attitude–It is a Way of Life, I have created cottage gardens in several states, and the following characterizes all of my cottage gardens: My Cottage Gardens are Informal…
Free Garden Plan for a Cottage Garden – 10′ x 22′ – What Is a Cottage Garden?
– Image Credit and Design from BHG online This plan adds some boxwoods for winter color and to stabilize the design through the changes of the seasons: A. 3 Boxwood Buxus B. 3 Dame’s Rockets C. 1 Lamb’s Ear D. 4 Cranesbill Geranium E. 1 Penstemon Sour Grapes F. 2 White, Peach-Leaved Bellflower G. 4…