Tulip poplar is one of the finest native trees in North America. Native to vast tracts of eastern North America, Liriodendron tulipifera is the largest growing…
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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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The average homeowner (and small business) pays $150-$300 a month for landscape maintenance. Often times, it’s too much and here’s why:
Continue ReadingStop paying for landscape maintenance you don’t need (while helping the environment)
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Named after the city of Athens, Georgia, this yellow-flowered sweetshrub is a rare beauty.
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Gomphrena pulchella ‘Fireworks’ is a tough and elegant annual for the summer garden. The first time I saw Gomphrena ‘Fireworks’ I thought it was Verbena bonariensis.…
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Rosa palustris, swamp rose, is a species rose native to the eastern United States. It is called swamp rose with good reason. Rosa palustris likes boggy, wet areas.
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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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Goldenseal, Hydrastis canadensis, is a native perennial under duress due to loss of habitat and illegal harvesting. I’ve appreciated the colony of goldenseal photographed herein…
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Himalayan cobra lily, Arisaema consanguineum, is mysterious, brooding, lovely. It’s tall, Himalayan cobra lily, sending up leaf stalks up to six feet tall they say. I’ve only…
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