Ferns For Sun

A general rule of thumb is to count to 5 for every one gallon of pot size. This procedure, called deadheading, encourages the Daylily Mini Pearl plant to produce new flowers, keeping your plant looking attractive throughout the season.

An old standard that features very large, very fragrant, red double flowers. Very large carnation shaped flowers with incurved petals, freely produced in clusters. Plants are long-lived, do not need to be divided and can be left undisturbed for years.

For example a one gallon pot would be watered until you count to 5 a three gallon pot would be 15 and so on. Deadheading also prevents Daylily Round Midnight from spreading through your yard, as it can be an effective self-seeder when the dead flowers...

In spring, the new leaves of this evergreen start out a coppery pink, then in summer turn green, and finally in fall, turn a rust shade. It is native to woodland hillsides and mountain slopes in Japan, China and Taiwan.

Synonymous with ) is a magnificent glossy evergreen that brings beauty to the home or garden. Tassels disappear as fronds flatten with maturity. Crosiers flip over backwards to form tassels as the newly emerging fronds unfurl, hence the common name of...

Hibiscus Luna Rose reliably blooms on the seasons new growth, so prune to the ground during late winter or very early spring before growth starts. Espoma products are easy to use, just sprinkle around the base of the plant and water it in.

Showy, dinner plate-sized, hollyhock-like flowers (each to 4-6” diameter) have five overlapping white, creamy white or pink petals with reddish-purple to dark crimson bases which form a sharply contrasting central eye.

Mulching helps to keep weeds away which will compete with your new investment for water and nutrients. Check the plant daily for the first week or so and then every other day there after.

Fall pruning, especially in colder climates, can result in a quick flush of new growth that prevents dormancy and makes winter freezes potentially deadly. Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted plants when...

We highly recommend that you mulch your Daylily Happy Returns with either a ground hardwood mulch or a ground cypress mulch depending on your local availability. Attracts pollinators and hummingbirds.

Clumps establish fairly quickly. Although the foliage is evergreen, it may become scorched and tattered in extremely harsh winters, particularly if not sited in locations protected from cold winter winds and/or insulated by snow cover.

Flowers (typically 3-6” across) have a distinctively flattened appearance. In order to meet these somewhat unusual seasonal cultural requirements, plants may be grown in pots that are sunk half way in water during the growing season but then removed...

Mulching helps to keep weeds away which will compete with your new investment for water and nutrients. Check the plant daily for the first week or so and then every other day there after.

Lustrous, very large dark emerald fronds arch gracefully from the base of the fern. Interestingly, we're told by friends in Vermont that the young fiddleheads are delicious sauteed in a bit of oil, with a taste like asparagus.

Cultivars come in single, double and peony flowered forms in a wide range of colors including shades of blue, lavender, violet-red, pink and white. Iris ensata variegata is slowly spreading clumps of variegated sword-shaped foliage prefer moist, even...

That is why we do not recommend planting in a hole any deeper than the soil line of the plant in the pot. Feeding your plants is probably the single most forgotten part of growing healthy long lasting plants.

Will drape over stone walls. In cold winter climates, the leaves usually turn reddish-orange in autumn. Sedums are commonly called stonecrops in reference to the fact that many of the sedum species plants are typically found in the wild growing on rocky...

Fall pruning, especially in colder climates, can result in a quick flush of new growth that prevents dormancy and makes winter freezes potentially deadly. Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted plants when...

Fall pruning, especially in colder climates, can result in a quick flush of new growth that prevents dormancy and makes winter freezes potentially deadly. Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted plants when...

Mulching helps to keep weeds away which will compete with your new investment for water and nutrients. Daylily Stella D'oro reliably blooms on the seasons new growth, so prune to the ground during late winter or very early spring before growth starts.

It was discovered in Uchte, Germany, by Beate Zillmer of Zillmer Pflanzen and is suitable for production in USDA Zones 4-9. In the landscape, it is often used in borders and cut flower gardens where there is full sun to partial shade.

Most of the water you put on the plant at first will run away from the plant until the soil is soaked. Remove the old flowers of Daylily Pardon Me as they become brown and unattractive.

Dense mats may be grown together to form an interesting ground cover. May also be grown on difficult sites such as stone walls. Easily grown in average, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun.

Plants may repeat bloom throughout the summer. Salvia Blue Hill has rough green foliage with numerous spikes of sky blue blooms rising a moderate 15″ from the compact plant. Spent flowers should be cut back for a repeat performance in fall.

Add lime to acidic soils to adjust the soil pH. This is a plant you will love for many years. The common name of pink for plants in the genus is in probable reference to the flower petal margins (they appear to have been cut with pinking shears) and not...

Add lime to acidic soils to adjust the soil pH. This is a plant you will love for many years. ‘Kahori' from Japanese means fragrant in obvious reference to the flowers. Easily grown in average, medium moisture, well-drained soils in full sun.

Firewitch has brilliant pink single flowers that have frilled petals combined with a pleasing clove scent. Attracts butterflies! Very suitable for gardens in the South. Although “Firewitch” dianthus might develop fungal diseases, such as leaf spot,...