For easy care and dramatic color, this selection of the ubiquyitous agapanthus is hard to beat.  Easy care, tough constitution and dramatic flowering are just some of the attributes of this wonderful selection.  Big, bold, imposing, dramatic, stop dead in your tracks, are all commentary quite appropriate to describe this [...]

Daylilies form the baackbone of many summer plantings and provide easy care flowers for varying amounts of time depending on selection of varieties and their blooming characteristics.  For those of you that do not know them, daylilies have fountanous arching narrow foliage of various heights from dwarfs only a few [...]

Morning glories are old fashioned favorites, easy care, self sufficient vines that produce a profusion of bright flowers. Fresh flowers open every day(in the morning, of course!) and their colors are brilliant. These great plants are wonderful additions to any garden landscape. Most people will know them as single blooms, [...]

Brand new to the gardening industry are the trailing heucharellas. These perennials look like heucheras, but have the quality of spreading out to make a clump about 3 ft diameter. To add to this wonderful attribute, they have wonderfully showy colored foliage. It is rounded and scalloped like heucheras, but [...]

I get a lot of questions on culture for Japanese maples (Acer palmatum and related species group). One of the most important things you can do for your plants is to WATER them amply. Abundant water, and regularly available water are necessary for good growth. Good drainage is important as [...]

One of the most dramatic yet graceful bulbs you can plant are Dieramas. They are easy care, can live for years and they increase in clump size. Their graceful slender stems sway in the breeze and from these main stems hand wire thin, almost threadlike branches which hold danglind bells [...]

Almost any plant can be considered a 'wonderful' specimen if planted where its attributes show it off to advantage. Take for example, the colors of foliage and flowers. Alone they may or not look well standing by themselves, but when you combine that plant with another that sets off the [...]

Flowering shrubs are easy care, low maintenance subjects for the garden. They provide a wonderful display and companion planting to the later dowgoods. They are versatile and of many size ranges from dwarf and smaller cvs. to large arching fountanous bushes. If you prune them correctly once a year during [...]

For most gardeners, the dogwood flowering season is over(Cornus florida cvs.). However, there are truly wonderful surprises that await those who visit the nursery now and in the next few weeks. These are the dogwoods that bloom later, extending the season by at least a month, longer if they blossoms [...]

Some of the great floral displays come from the large group of plants catagorized under the catch all of spring flowering shrubs. Here you will find many genera of wonderful plants, many of which have a wide array of growth habits and blossom presentations. They have one important thing in [...]