Alternately, Hosta Sum and Substance can be planted with minions, or smaller, variegated hostas at its edges. Hosta Sum and Substance does best in part to full shade and handles some direct, filtered sun.
Adding compost or topsoil will help the young feeder roots to spread through the loose, nutrient rich soil, much easier than if you used solely the existing soil which more times than not will be hard and compacted.
Looks good all season. 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. Green leaves edged in white and contrast to the shade garden! Hosta Patriot boasts...
Its probably one of the most popular choices for the home landscape. Hosta Albomarginata is a widely popular shade perennial with soft green leaves striped with white bands, making it very striking.
Fall pruning, especially in warmer climates, can result in a quick flush of new growth that prevents dormancy and makes winter freezes potentially deadly. Adding compost or topsoil will help the young feeder roots to spread through the loose, nutrient...
The foliage color holds best in partial shade. Attractive foliage and airy flower panicles provide color and contrast to the rock garden, perennial border, open woodland garden or shade garden.
From the lovely chartreuse foliage to the beautiful bluish purple flowers, this is a ground cover unlike any other. The purple iris like flowers are striking against the gold foliage.
All ferns grow best in soils with high organic matter content. It is native to woodland hillsides and mountain slopes in Japan, China and Taiwan. New fronds unfurl in striking shades of orange-red to copper-pink before eventually maturing to glossy deep...
The chartreuse foliage will stand out in any shady garden, be it in a pot, garden bed, or as a mass planting. Does well in containers. Effective as an edger along paths or walkways.
The foliage of this tough heat and humidity tolerant Heuchera is golden apricot with a slight earthy green or rose tint on the newer leaves. Looks great in containers or as an edging.
Hellebore Ivory Prince was selected in 1995 in Sussex, England from a controlled breeding program designed to produce new helleborus plants that exhibited vigorous growth, upright form and flatness of flowers.
A new, improved selection exhibiting superior form with leathery textured, rich green foliage. Meaning injures/destroys in reference to the plant's toxic leaves, stems and roots which are poisonous to humans if ingested.
Evergreen perennial with cup-shaped nodding blooms in colors ranging from cream, pink to red in late winter. They are noted for producing single, cup-shaped flowers (typically 2-3” diameter) with five showy, usually overlapping petals (technically sepals),...
Species plants may be grown from seed, but hybrids are usually divided in the garden. , commonly called coral bells or alumroot, is a genus consisting of about 55 species of evergreen to semi-evergreen herbaceous perennials which are all native to North...
Makes a great ground cover for shade. Whorls of hooded, large true purple flowers stand out against silver foliage edged in green. Clusters of purple flowers appear and spring and continue off and on through fall.
Similar in appearance to the showy, old garden bleeding heart from Asia, is taller and wider, its flowers are larger and its foliage is less dissected and usually goes dormant by mid-summer.
Many people think that ferns are difficult to grow, or that they can only be grown in damp and shady places. Specific epithet means “many eyelashes” in reference to the bristly scales found on the stipe and rachis.
Remember that it goes dormant in mid-summer. They prefer moist, humusy soil. A garden favorite for years, it's fairly tall at 3′, and has evenly spaced pink hearts suspended gracefully on its long stems.
For example a one gallon pot would be watered until you count to 5 a three gallon pot would be 15 and so on. Most of the water you put on the plant at first will run away from the plant until the soil is soaked.
A good rule is that you should still be able to see the soil the plant was grown in after back-filling the hole. Cutting back will promote new growth, giving you a healthier plant with stronger stems.
A good rule is that you should still be able to see the soil the plant was grown in after back-filling the hole. Cutting back will promote new growth, giving you a healthier plant with stronger stems.
New plants can be obtained from division of the clumps (best in spring) and from seedlings which grow up around the plants as a result of self seeding. Hellebore Orientalis blooms late in winter, bearing nodding, 2-inch flowers in shades of whitish green,...
Check the plant daily for the first week or so and then every other day there after. The most common cause of plant death after transplanting is planting the new plant to deep. After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and...
After back filling and lightly compacting the 50/50 mix of existing soil and compost give the Gaultheria procumbens a good deep watering. 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...
Feeding your plants is probably the single most forgotten part of growing healthy long lasting plants. We recommend feeding your Mondo Grass in the very early spring and again in mid summer after all new growth has hardened off.
Features 1 1/4″ diameter, pink to lilac, saucer-shaped, upward facing, 5-petaled flowers in spring for a period of 6-7 weeks. Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade.
Plants should be spaced about 60cm apart each way. * A good ground cover plant, succeeding in dense shade but rather slow to spread. * Heart-shaped shiny dark green leaves with prominent veins, 9" x 5"; dark violet flowers in August; a 2' mound, flowers...
