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Have you ever wanted to grow fruit, but didn’t want to give up space in the yard for one of those heirloom apple trees? Even a crab apple might be …
Read moreEspalier Fruit Trees: Ideas To Pack Big Fruit Harvests Into Small Spaces
Have you ever grown a rattlesnake plant? How about a peacock plant? A zebra plant? All of these are forms of calathea! Let’s explore the delightful and fun world of …
Read moreCalathea: Caring For The Rattlesnake Plant, Zebra Plant and More
Arbor Day is celebrated nationally in the United States on the last Friday of April each year, although individual states celebrate it at different times. So in honor of National …
Read moreEcotherapy: How Trees Make You Healthier & How You Can Help Them
Named for their bottle brush-shaped flowers, this plant can grow as a bottle brush tree or a shrub. Originating in Australia, there are around 50 species of bottle brush plants, …
Read moreBottle Brush Tree: How To Grow And Care For Callistemons & Melaleucas
The showy and stunning blooms of the tiger lilly flower are well worth the effort, and for good reason. Originating in Asia, tiger lily (Lilium lancifolium, also called Lilium tigrinum) …
Read moreTiger Lily: How To Grow & Care For Lilium Lancifolium
In shades of white, pink, red, purple and blue, phlox is an incredibly popular, brilliantly-flowered ornamental plant. Whether it’s creeping phlox spreading out to become a beautiful ground cover, or …
Read moreCreeping Phlox, Mounding Phlox: Easy To Grow Perennial Plants
Ah, the pussy willow. The perfect addition to your ornamental garden! They’re one of the first plants to bloom in spring, making them a top pick for many gardeners. Its …
Read morePussy Willows: Exactly How to Care For This Beautiful Plant
Coleus is a gorgeous type of ornamental plant with a very complicated naming history! In 1763, coleus was part of the Ocimum genus. Later, it was recognized as its own …
Read moreColeus: How To Grow And Care For Plectranthus Scutellarioides
Carnations, sweet william, pinks! There’s such a wide diversity of dianthus plants out there, all of which are beloved by gardeners for their frilly flowers and their green foliage. But …
Read moreDianthus Dreams: Caring For Carnations, Sweet Williams, and Pinks
Black eyed susan or brown-eyed susan, coneflower or Gloriosa daisy. These names describe the Rudbeckia species of plants. This relative of the sunflower grows both wild and in garden settings, …
Read moreBlack Eyed Susan: How To Grow And Care For Rudbeckia Plants
We all want to encourage pollinators to populate our gardens. After all, without those pollinating insects, we don’t have flowers or produce! And so, to draw beneficial insects to our …
We all love trees and shrubs that have beautiful fall color. We also love birds and butterflies. We can help these creatures by asking for native plants when we shop …
Read more8 Must-Have Native Shrubs and Trees for Midwestern Fall Color
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