Fertilize every 3-4 weeks with a liquid fertilizer such as Jack’s Classic 20-20-20. An alternative to liquid food is granular slow-release fertilizer.  Apply Osmocote 14-14-14 as directed only once at planting.

Description:  A vigorous, easy to grow selection with vibrant golden foliage and gentian-blue flowers. Versatile, growing in most any soil type, even wet bogs. Cut back long sprawling stems after primary bloom and plants will re-bloom come fall.

Masterwort Astrantia Description: Adored by floral designers as a unique fresh or dried cut flower, Astrantia will last up to 14 days in a vase! Each flower is comprised of a starry collar of deep red, pointed bracts with purple-red tips surrounding a button-like umbel of green and red flowers. They are produced in branched […]

Running Bamboo (Phyllostachys) Running Bamboos spread by sending out roots into the earth to a depth of about one foot.  Some running bamboos are modest growers, while others can be extremely vigorous and invasive. “Running” can be controlled by cutting back the ends of the rhizomes with a spade.  Phyllostachys, or Giant Bamboo, are the […]

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Bugbane Cimicifuga Description: Cimicifuga is a wonderfully lacy, airy backdrop in the garden.  It is native to the edges of woodlands in eastern North America, performing best in partial shade and moist, organically enriched soil.  Water supply should be constant throughout spring to fall. 

Baby’s Breath Gypsophila Description: Baby’s Breath bears dainty pink and white flowers that when dried, are often used in floral arrangements.  This plant will also accent the border or a rock garden.  Photo courtesy of Walters Gardens,Inc.

Ornamental Strawberry Fragaria Description:  Fragaria hybrids are a cross between a strawberry of unknown origin and marsh cinquefoil (Potentilla palustris). The resulting plants have the best features from both plants: a long bloom time beginning in midspring, fast-spreading groundcover capabilities, and even small, edible strawberries! Its trailing habit also makes this a nice accent plant […]

Standing at least 2ft. tall, this monster-sized Geranium makes a prime focal point in the garden.  Large 2in. wide, magenta flowers with a black center and veining are produced in great abundance for most of the summer.  The plant is clump forming with long, spreading stems and very large leaves.   Try planting ‘Dragon Heart’ near […]

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Refined beauties that completely embody the joy and hope that spring offers.  Their sizable double blossoms in a rainbow of colors bloom profusely throughout the spring season atop the compact, bright green foliage.  Sterile flowers result in plants that are particularly long blooming.  Large, deep blue double blossoms.

Asiatic Lily Lilium asiatic Description: Asiatic Lilies are an easy-to-grow colorful addition to any garden!  They come in almost every color of the rainbow and bloom June to July. ‘Tiny Hope’ shown, right.

Dwarf Plumbago Ceratostigma   Description: A durable, flowering ground cover for any sunny or shady spot!  Once established, Plumbago will halt the spread of unwanted weeds while allowing spring and summer flowering bulbs to poke through.  The foliage changes from green to dark burgundy in fall.