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Cut back Sedum Autumn Fire to within 6 inches of the ground after it has finished flowering. Deadheading also prevents Sedum Autumn Fire from spreading through your yard, as it can be an effective self-seeder when the dead flowers are allowed to dry completely...

St John's Wort Pumpkin is a yellow flowering perennial that produces bright orange to pink berries in the fall that do well in cut containers. Espoma products are easy to use, just sprinkle around the base of the plant and water it in.

Palmate, serrate, leathery, 8-16″ wide, glossy, basal, dark green leaves (7-9 leaflets) are evergreen in warm climates but deciduous in extremely cold winters. Flower color is extremely variable, ranging from white to pink to light rose-purple, frequently...

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.

You can plant other peonies with staggered bloom times to extend the total peony bloom period to approximately 6 weeks during May and June. Peony Karl Rosenfield is a red double flowered peony.

In colder climates, cut it back as one of the last chores in your garden before the snow flies. Follow this up with another early summer application of , this will again provide the necessary nutrients to promote lush growth.

Be careful with products such as miracle-grow as these products can burn newly planted plants when not used at the recommended rates. Its better to leave a one inch gap of space between the mulch and the stem or base of the plant.

Glossy green foliage is divided into oval to lance-shaped leaflets. Cut foliage to the ground and remove from the garden in fall after frost. Plants are long-lived, do not need to be divided and can be left undisturbed for years.

Heucherella Brass Lantern combines the best traits of Heuchera and Tiarella. Sporadic repeat blooms until frost, particularly in autumn. Best foliage color may occur in sunny spots with part afternoon shade.

Sum and Substance does best in part to full shade. Unlike other hostas, Sum and Substance is very large, 2 to 3 feet tall and 5 to 6 feet wide. It does not like to stay or sit in water or get too dry.

Our ideal fertilizer schedule for you to use is as follows. Depending on the quality of your existing soil you may need to add a locally sourced compost or topsoil to the back-fill soil.

Green leaves edged in white and contrast to the shade garden! Hosta Patriot boasts strong white margin on dark green heart-shaped leaves. They can be used as an edging plant or en mass for a showy ground cover.

An old standard that features very large, very fragrant, red double flowers. Remove spent flowers after blooming. Cut foliage to the ground and remove from the garden in fall after frost.

Hosta Albomarginata is a widely popular shade perennial with soft green leaves striped with white bands, making it very striking. Its probably one of the most popular choices for the home landscape.

We do not recommend using straight topsoil or compost as a back-fill soil because more times than not these products will retain entirely to much moisture and will cause the root system to rot.

Each plant will flower for approximately 7-10 days. This variety of peony makes for excellent cut flowers. Also effective as accents or herbaceous hedges along fences, sidewalks, driveways or walls.

Slow-release fertilizer can help prevent rapid soft growth that is vulnerable to diseases and insects. Remove the old flowers of Daylily Round Midnight as they become brown and unattractive.

Lavender Provence is a popular hybrid lavender for the herb garden. Leaves are evergreen in warm winter climates. Gray-green leaves (to 2 1/2” long and 1/4” wide) on square stems.

Each flower (to 3-4″ diameter) features downward-arching, overlapping, deep rose-purple rays which encircle a large orange-brown center cone. , commonly called purple coneflower, is a coarse, rough-hairy, herbaceous perennial that is native to moist...

Mix in with ‘Stella De Ora' daylilies and garden phlox. We highly recommend that you mulch your Sedum Autumn Fire with either a ground hardwood mulch or a ground cypress mulch depending on your local availability.

We highly recommend that you mulch your Achillea Strawberry Seduction with either a ground hardwood mulch or a ground cypress mulch depending on your local availability. Ideal in sunny beds and borders.

Leaves of this mint family member are aromatic, wrinkled and soft-hairy beneath with entire or serrate margins. Flowers bloom in 2-6 flowered verticillasters arranged in dense terminal racemes which rise well-above the basal leaves on square stems to...

English lavender varieties are more often used for culinary purposes than other types of lavender. They generally flower in midsummer, a little later than the English types. This “true lavender” is commercially planted for harvesting its oils for...

Slow-release fertilizer can help prevent rapid soft growth that is vulnerable to diseases and insects. We suggest when planting your newly purchased Nepeta Walker's Low plants that you dig a hole twice as wide as the root system but not deeper.

Plants form a bushy clump of grey-green leaves, with upright spikes appearing in early summer, attractive to both butterflies and hummingbirds. The Perennial Sages are invaluable perennials for their rich display in the border.

Small disk flowers (rays absent) ranging in color from pale pink to dark purple bloom in corymbiform, dome-shaped clusters (4-7” across) from July to September. , commonly known as coastal plain Joe Pye weed, is a coarse, herbaceous perennial that typically...

A good rule is that you should still be able to see the soil the plant was grown in after back-filling the hole. 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.