Spigelia marilandica, Indian pink or woodland pinkroot, is irresistible to hummingbirds and is a long-flowering native perennial perfectly at home in the shade garden. You don’t see…
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Monarda didyma ‘Jacob Cline’, scarlet bee balm, rivals cardinal flower as one of the truest and deepest red flowers of summer. Difficult to photograph accurately,…
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Finally, I took a good photograph of blue false indigo by taking a picture of a bee for my children.
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Most if not all of the people denying climate change exists really don’t know, yet they plant the yellow flag and oil refineries for us all.
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Georgia rockcress is rare and endangered, with less than an estimated 5,000 plants in existence. The known plants are spread among 28 surveyed sites, nine…
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Rattlesnake master (Eryngium yuccifolium) is a native perennial with the coolest name in gardening. As the name implies, rattlesnake master is a tough customer, at…
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Iris ‘Gerald Darby’ is my favorite iris and I’ve only seen it flower for one season. It is new in our garden and it is…
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Frances Williams was a landscape architect who graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She discovered a promising and unusual variegated hosta in 1936 in Bristol, Connecticut.
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Wild bergamot, Monarda fistulosa, is an ecologically important native perennial. Native to large swaths of the United States, Canada, and Mexico, wild bergamot has soft lavender…
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Before covering butterfly weed, Asclepias tuberosa, I pass on the best butterfly weed tip I know: it emerges late in spring. It is by far…
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Verbena bonariensis, tall verbena, is a long-flowering perennial native to South America. It has become a favorite of North American summer gardens with its tall,…
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