Divide them in early spring before flowering or later in the summer if desired.  Tiarellas do well in colder climate zones but extended winter wetness will cause damage.  Decayed leaves should be removed. Plant with:  Astilbe, Columbine, Coral Bells, Cordyalis, Hosta, Lilyturf, Lungwort and Meadow Rue. Planting Instructions:  Perennials Water & Fertilizer Schedule

Showy sport of the ever-popular ‘Halcyon’.  Medium sized hosta with thick, slug resistant foliage.  In spring, the leaves display a wide, creamy white margin and blue center.  By summer, the margins have brightened to white and the center deepens to blue-green.  During the heat of late summer, a greenish blush may appear over portions of […]

There are plenty of other reasons to fall in love with this Heucherella: very large, deeply incised, brilliantly colored leaves and a vigorous, robust habit.  In spring, the leaves are gold with sharply contrasting red veining.  This color remains throughout most of the summer, then greens up a bit but retains the red veining.  In […]

A “miracle” breakthrough in Heuchera breeding!  This sister seedling of ‘Tiramisu’ produces pink flowers in midsummer.  This is very unusual for a H. villosa hybrid since most others have cream colored flowers.  During the cooler weather of spring and fall, the foliage is a fantastic shade of brick red with bright chartreuse to gold edges […]

In a series of dwarf Astilbes from hybridizer Jan Verschoor comes this floriferous, soft pink selection with triangular-shaped plumes.  In early to midsummer, the flowers are presented just above the very compact, full clump of small, dark green leaves. At just under a foot tall, this is an excellent selection for the front of the border […]

Maiden GRASS Miscanthus sinensis   Description: Maiden Grass is an arching, graceful grass that forms dense clumps of green or variegated foliage.   This grass is used in the landscape as a specimen, screen or a nice mass of textured foliage.  Also looks great near a pond!  Maiden Grass requires a location in the landscape that […]

Periwinkle (Myrtle) Vinca minor Description: Myrtle’s glossy, evergreen leaves are covered with blue flowers in May and June.   This plant thrives in shade.   Useful on banks, slopes, under trees and as a ground cover.

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.

Goat’s Beard Aruncus Description:  An outstanding specimen plant for the partially shaded garden. Looking much like a very large white Astilbe, Goat’s Beard has similar foliage and feathery, creamy white flower plumes up to 1 ft. long.  This herbaceous perennial can easily take the place of a shrub in the garden; it will grow about […]

Perennials Aquilegia, Columbine Asclepias tuberosa, Butterfly Weed Buddleia, Butterfly Bush Crocosmia , Montbretia Delphinium, Larkspur Digitalis, Foxglove Kniphofia, Red Hot Poker Lobelia cardinalis, Cardinal Flower Lupinus, Lupines Monarda didyma, Bee Balm Mimulus hybridus, Monkeyflower Penstemon, Beardtongue Salvia officinalis, Sage Veronica, Speedwell Verbena, Verbena (annual type shown, right) Annuals & Bulbs Cosmos Tuberous begonia Canna Gladiolus […]

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Dayton “Dirt” Weekly Blog entries by Tom Dayton Also check out our Monthly “Going Green” Blogs BLOG ARCHIVE – 2008 BLOG ARCHIVE – 2009 BLOG ARCHIVE – 2010 BLOG ARCHIVE – 2011   December 28, 2012 While the clock starts winding down on 2012, the days now are slowly growing longer daylight hours so that […]

Dayton “Dirt” Weekly Blog entries by Tom Dayton Also check out our Monthly “Going Green” Blogs BLOG ARCHIVE – 2008 BLOG ARCHIVE – 2009 December 31, 2010 With the end of 2010 upon us, my hope for you in the new year is that we will not have a repeat of last summer’s heat and […]

Oct 24, 2008 I’ve been writing about different topics that you should be doing in the fall. Now I would like to summarize what is essential that you do in the next four to six weeks: Fertilize your lawn at the last mowing with a winterizer fertilizer that is high in potassium. Take a soil […]