Lavender
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Lavender

Lavender, known for its fragrant purple flowers and silvery foliage, is a popular plant for gardens and landscapes. It’s relatively easy to care for and can be used in various applications, from landscaping to essential oil extraction. Here’s how to grow, care for, and propagate lavender: Growing Lavender Choosing the Right Location Sunlight: Lavender thrives…

Magnificent Cobalt-Blue Flowers of Lungwort Pulmonaria ‘Trevi Fountain’
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Magnificent Cobalt-Blue Flowers of Lungwort Pulmonaria ‘Trevi Fountain’

In spring, this magnificent, brightly silver-spotted beauty will produce profuse clusters of large cobalt-blue flowers. A knockout! It is our best, true dark-blue, and grows into a magnificent landscape specimen, according to TerraNova Nurseries. Great for use in a shade garden, mixed beds, shrubs with high branching, or woodland. Plants wilt quickly if the soil…

Brunnera ‘Jack Frost’

Brunnera ‘Jack Frost’

This is a gorgeous and striking shade accent plant that was named the 2012 Perennial Plant of the Year. Brunnera ‘Jack Frost’ is incredibly stunning in the garden from early spring to late October, with sky blue forget-me-not blooms in the spring and stricking silvering leaves through the fall. It is best suited to woods…

Inspired by different colours, shapes and sizes of my daylilies
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Inspired by different colours, shapes and sizes of my daylilies

I love the different colours and shapes and sizes.  My brilliant large yellow daylily looks like it should be dessert, while the peachy frilly daylily is called Rilly Frilly, which is super fun.  Greetings fellow gardeners,  I am in the midst of making lists and preparing what produce is available to me right now. Today…

I want a fancy pond with my new bog plants
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I want a fancy pond with my new bog plants

I really want a fancy pond with my new bog plants planted carefully around it, the bullrushes trimmed, the thimbleberries cut back and not a buckthorn seedling in sight Greetings fellow gardeners,  Sometimes we must compromise. I really wanted long, white lacey curtains in the bathroom. So pretty. The curtains have been pulled down twice…

On Pruning and Deadheading Daffodils, Tulips, Lilac and Viola
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On Pruning and Deadheading Daffodils, Tulips, Lilac and Viola

This year I am determined to do my best to deadhead my flowers. If you take off the dead flowers you will get more and more flowers. Greetings fellow gardeners, This has been a scary week. When I went outside on Tuesday morning it smelled like a campfire. It was dark and the sky looked…

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