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Showy daisy-like purple coneflowers (to 5″ diameter) bloom throughout summer atop stiff stems clad with coarse, ovate to broad-lanceolate, dark green leaves. Leaving some spent flowers on the plant in the fall will provide food for wintering birds.

We suggest when planting your newly purchased St John's Wort Red Fame plants that you dig a hole twice as wide as the root system but not deeper. Adding compost or topsoil will help the young feeder roots to spread through the loose, nutrient rich soil,...

Slow-release fertilizer can help prevent rapid soft growth that is vulnerable to diseases and insects. Uses: Extremely attractive when used as a focal point in the mixed border, mass planting.

A good rule is that you should still be able to see the soil the plant was grown in after back-filling the hole. Attracts pollinators and hummingbirds. Plants are useful in the border, rock garden, or as a filler in that odd spot.

Miscanthus Morning Light is a very popular miscanthus. Its appearance is fine textured and it has a compact growth habit. Miscanthus Morning Light is deer resistant and easy to grow! It is also salt tolerant.

The best mulch for the plant is pea stone or gravel, which helps keep the plant clean and suppresses weeds without holding extra water. Consider shearing plants back after main flush of bloom in order to tidy the planting and to promote additional bloom...

The dead flower stems will remain erect well into the winter, and if flower heads are not removed, the blackened cones may be visited by goldfinches or other birds that feed on the seeds.

Hellebore Orientalis blooms late in winter, bearing nodding, 2-inch flowers in shades of whitish green, soft purple, or rose, often spotted with purple. , commonly called Lenten rose, is a clump-forming, late winter-blooming perennial which typically...

Cut foliage to the ground and remove from the garden in fall after frost. The classic double red Peony, this early-season bloomer produces huge, deep red blooms that are showstoppers in the garden and in bouquets.

* Spring interest * Fall color * Rabbit tolerant * Cold hardy * Deer resistant * Heat tolerant * Pest resistant * Drought tolerant once established * Heavy shade tolerant * Evergreen/semi-evergreen (depending upon climate)

The revised edition of Steyermark's Flora of Missouri (Yatskievych and Turner) now lists the plant as based upon a number of factors including plant morphology, chromosome number, style length, reproductive modes and ploidal levels (see Umber, The Genus...

We suggest when planting your newly purchased St John's Wort Pumpkin plants that you dig a hole twice as wide as the root system but not deeper. Adding compost or topsoil will help the young feeder roots to spread through the loose, nutrient rich soil,...

Synonymous with Easily grown in average, medium to wet soils in full sun to part shade. Iris Moonlight Waves is slowly spreading clumps of sword-shaped foliage prefer moist, even wet soil during the growing season but are unlikely to survive emersion...

This procedure, called deadheading, encourages the Aster October Skies plant to produce new flowers, keeping your plant looking attractive throughout the season. Adding compost or topsoil will help the young feeder roots to spread through the loose, nutrient...

A 2 to 3 inch layer of mulch is sufficient but remember to take care not to cover any part of the stem of the plant with mulch. Any type of mulch will do but cypress or hardwood mulch will be of a higher quality and provide better nutrition overall as...

Starter fertilizer is the best product to use at the time of planting. Its better to leave a one inch gap of space between the mulch and the stem or base of the plant. Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted...

Our ideal fertilizer schedule for you to use is as follows. Remove the old flowers of Daylily Mini Pearl as they become brown and unattractive. Slow-release fertilizer can help prevent rapid soft growth that is vulnerable to diseases and insects.

* Yellow Non Invasive Grass * Deer Resistant * Container Plant or Border * Fragrant butter-yellow blades The fragrant, butter yellow and green sword-like blades (resembles iris leaves) create a striking contrast to other grasses and plants.

Sensational winter hardy variety of a tropical favorite. Deer resistant. Easy to grow, needs little care. Full foliage shrub-like plants 4-8' tall. You can now enjoy these gorgeous flowers in your northern home.

A general rule of thumb is to count to 5 for every one gallon of pot size. Apply an early spring fertilizer with a product such as at the recommended rate this will give the plant a boost of nitrogen potash that will be needed for healthy foliage and...

Effective in containers and hanging baskets. ) is a low-growing, mat-forming, evergreen stonecrop that grows to only 4” tall but quickly spreads to 24” wide on stems clad with spiky gray-green leaves.

Prune the grassy leaves down to the ground in early spring before new growth begins. Very attractive! Norther Sea Oats Grass is easy to grow in full sun or in the shade. It self-sows freely so deadhead if you do not want volunteer seedlings next season.

Water using the counting method for the first few weeks. Apply an early spring fertilizer with a product such as at the recommended rate this will give the plant a boost of nitrogen potash that will be needed for healthy foliage and stem growth.

Two year old plants in our trials measured an impressive 4-4 ½' across! Lavender has been grown for centuries for its intensely fragrant flowers and beautiful appearance. One of the hottest lavenders to hit the market in years and certainly one of our...

It is also know as "Sage grass" or "Beard grass'. It will grow anywhere and will tolerate poor soils. There is also a single, white, hairy flower cluster at the tip of each stalk. In fall, the leaves turn a rich orange-wheat color which persists all winter,providing...

Outstanding as a background or as an accent plant in corners or in rock gardens. Also available in the Pampas Grass Collection. Plumes start mid-summer and last through winter. An elegant addition to your yard.

Espoma products are easy to use, just sprinkle around the base of the plant and water it in. We recommend feeding your Nepeta Walker's Low in the very early spring and again in mid summer after all new growth has hardened off and it begins to set flower...