Garden and Caring for Plants

Growing and Caring for plants involves providing them with the right conditions to thrive, which includes attention to watering, light, soil, temperature, and occasionally pruning or fertilizing.

By consistently providing appropriate care and attention, you can help your plants thrive and enjoy the beauty and benefits they bring to your home or garden.

  • Hoary Vervain

    Hoary Vervain

    The hoary vervain, or Verbena stricta, is a type of herbaceous plant falling under the Verbenaceae family. The flowering plant is most commonly found…

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  • White Heath Aster

    White Heath Aster

    White Heath Aster is a bushy, compact plant with many branched stems smothered in sprays of small, daisy-like white flowers. These sprays are so…

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  • Lysimachia quadrifolia or Four-Flowered Yellow Loosestrife

    Four-Flowered Yellow Loosestrife

    The four-flower yellow loosestrife, or Lysimachia quadrifolia, is a species of herbaceous plant in the Primulaceae family. It is indigenous to Canada and the…

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  • Aloe vera in nature with orange red flowers

    Do Aloe Plants Flower?

    Over 500 species of succulent flowering plants belong to the genus Aloe. Houses, apartments, businesses, and other interior locations frequently have aloe plants. The…

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  • The yellow flowering stem of an Ohio GoldenRod

    Ohio Goldenrod

    Ohio Goldenrod (Solidago ohioensis) has a compact form that belies its large, exuberant floral display late in the season. It has flat-topped clusters of…

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  • Six bright purple slender blazing star flowers

    Slender Blazing Star

    Slender Blazing Star is an upright, clump-forming perennial with fluffy, purple flowers that bloom in late summer. It is best to plant it with…

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  • chokeberry fruit on their stem

    Chokeberry is a Desirable Shrub

    Chokeberry (Aronia melanocarpa) produces fantastic fruit and it is easy to grow. This berry bush provides a second pleasure: It is an ornamental beauty…

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  • Top view of false solomon's seal plant with white flower

    False Solomon’s Seal

    False Solomon’s Seal boasts beautiful white blossoms, scarlet fruit, and fragrant petals. It is native throughout North America. It grows from 30 to 75…

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  • Maianthemum stellatum with 4 white flowers

    Starry False Solomon’s Seal

    Starry False Solomon’s Seal has attractive foilage, flowers, and berries that form a dense groundcover once established. The narrow oval-shaped leaves are about 3-12…

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  • a full Blue Cohosh plant

    Blue Cohosh

    Blue Cohosh is well-known for its effects as a female health supplement. Native Americans employed roots and flowers as herbal medicine to cure a…

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  • Monarch butterfly on rough blazing star

    Rough Blazing Star Attracts Pollinators

    Rough Blazing Star features fluffy, deep rose-purple flowers arranged in 1″ button-like heads. Blooming begins, as one would assume, at the top of the…

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  • A small patch of Nodding Onion in a hillside

    Nodding Onion Can Put On a Show

    The Nodding Onion is famous for its blossoms’ unusual orientation: pointing downward, “nodding” towards the earth. Each hooked stem has pom-poms of star-shaped blooms…

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  • A dozen colorful tick seed coreopsis

    Lanceleaf Tickseed Coreopsis

    Lanceleaf Tickseed is popular and ideal for the garden, outdoor pots and containers. It has bright yellow spring daisy-like blooms that bloom from spring…

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  • A flowering hosta by a tree trunk

    Hostas and other Shady Characters!

    Hostas are lush, leafy perennials that generally thrive in shade to part sun. They are sought after for their leaves, and their ability to…

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  • A small grove of bee balm wild bergamot plants and purple flowers

    Wild Bergamot

    Wild Bergamot has rich globular heads of fragrant lilac-purple tubular blooms. The flower heads perch on a whorl of beautiful, pinkish bracts and bloom…

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  • A cluster of pearly everlasting yellow flowers with white petals

    Pearly Everlasting is a Butterfly Larvae Host

    Pearly everlasting features tiny clusters of yellow flowers enclosed by white papery bracts, which look like petals, grace this beautiful wildflower in summer. There…

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  • A close up of Obedient plant flower

    Obedient Plant has Wonderful Flowers

    Obedient plant, true to its name, its flowers are “obedient” and can bend in any direction. The obedient plant is a flowering plant in…

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  • A patch of multicolored zinnia elgans flowers

    Zinnia Attract Pollinators

    Zinnias are beautiful flowers that are great for butterfly gardens. Its blooms can provide an explosion of colour in your landscape. It is easy…

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  • A patch of yellow goldenrod euthamia graminiflia

    Grass Leaved Goldenrod Adds Colour

    Grass-Leaved Goldenrod is a colourful upright perennial. The bright yellow plants are commonly seen on roadsides in rural areas, moist meadows, and sandy or…

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  • golden alexander yellow flowers with a butterfly feeding

    Golden Alexander Is an Early Bloomer

    Golden Alexander (Zizia aurea) is an important early source of pollen and nectar for newly emerging bees and other insects. It is an early spring…

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  • A clump of Rudbeckia Hirta Black Eyed Susans along a walkway

    Black-Eyed Susan Brings Cheerful Colour

    Many people consider the ‘Gloriosa Daisy’ to be one of the most beautiful things to come from a seed packet. It is an “average…

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  • A surround sky view of douglas firs on vancouver island

    When to Plant Trees – Spring vs Fall

    When to plant trees?  Should it be spring, or should it be fall?  It’s a question many new gardeners ask themselves.  And with good…

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  • A patch of dahlia flowers and blooms in multiple colours

    Dahlias Store Energy in their Tubers

    Propagating Dahlias Dahlia plants store food and energy on their roots and underground stems called tubers. Oblivious individuals might even mistake these clumps of…

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  • Aquilegia canadensis on a cliff by water

    Red Columbine is a Wonderful Woodland Flower

    This beautiful woodland wildflower has showy, drooping, bell-like flowers that turn from red into yellow. Its lovely floral display, ease of growing, and overall…

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