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.

  • Monkey flower plant, stem and purple flower

    Monkey Flower

    Named monkeyflower after the apparent resemblance the blooms have to a monkey’s face, the Square-Stemmed Monkeyflower bears asymmetrical, tubular violet or pink flowers which…

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  • A Pink Cosmos Flower in Full Bloom

    Cosmos is a Hardy Plant with Showy Flowers

    Cosmos plants are highly resilient, blooming lavishly from early or midsummer to fall, depending on variety, and have beautiful cut leaves, spectacular blooms, and…

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  • Poke milkweed

    Caring for Poke Milkweed

    Although the milky sap is poisonous to humans, poke milkweed is an important nectar source for native bees, wasps, and other nectar-seeking insects. Unfortunately,…

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  • alternate leaf dogwood full tree iwth layered branches

    Alternate leaf Dogwood Quick Growth Guide

    Alternate leaf dogwood has, as one would expect, alternate leaves, which turn to maroon foliage in the fall. When it is not competing with…

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  • An tall and healthy American Beech tree

    American Beech

    Native to eastern North America, the American beech will stand out in any forest. It is a large deciduous tree, sometimes growing up to…

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  • Sambucus Canadensis American Elder flower and leaf

    American Elder

    At least 50 species of songbirds, upland game birds, and small mammals relish the fruit of American elder during summer and early fall. American…

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  • Balsam Fir is a Popular Christmas Tree

    It is widely used as a Christmas tree and for wreaths. It smells great! It’s a good specimen fir for the landscape, and as…

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  • A medium sized basswood in a grassy area

    Basswood

    Basswood is an adaptable native tree with aromatic flowers and pleasant foliage. Its flowers attract a large number of insect pollinators. Basswood honey is…

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  • Bur Oak by a road side

    Bur Oak

    The Bur Oak, Quercus macrocarpa, is one of the most massive oaks, with a trunk diameter of up to 10 ft. It commonly grows…

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  • Downy Serviceberry leaves and fruit

    Downy Serviceberry Quick Growth Guide

    The Downy Serviceberry provides food for over 40 species of birds. The berries can be used to make jams or pies and taste almost…

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  • Ironwood leaf and flower

    Ironwood Quick Growing Guide

    The Ironwood makes a great backyard tree as it is resistant to many diseases and insect problems. It tends to blend in with other…

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  • REd Osier dogwood fruit and leaves

    Red Osier Dogwood Quick Growth Guide

    A red Osier dogwood plant with its red stems and without leaves.

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  • A tall and healthy red maple

    Red Maple

    The red maple bears brilliantly coloured foliage and nutrition for many types of animals. It is also commonly used to make furniture and flooring.…

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  • A mature Red Oak in the fall, with orange and yellow leaves

    Red Oak is An Important Tree

    The northern red oak is one of the most important trees for timber development in North America. Its wood has been used to make…

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  • A young Silver Maple, fully leaved in a summer setting, on a grassy knoll

    Silver Maple

    The silver maple is very similar to the red maple. The difference is that its leaves turn yellow or brown, not red, in autumn.…

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  • A close up of a trout lily with yellow flowers

    Trout Lily: Photogenic and Useful

    Trout lily, a plant with stunning yellow flowers that bloom in the early spring, is quite photogenic. Large colonies of trout lilies can entirely…

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  • Dutchman's breeches plant and flower

    Dutchman’s Breeches is a Spring Nectar Source

    Dutchman’s Breeches is an ephemeral spring woodland species. It blooms in the early spring, when sunlight hits the forest floor before the canopy of…

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  • A straflower plant with fie leaves and a small white flower

    Starflower

    Starflower is a plant that grows in the forest understory or as a groundcover in damp, shaded soils, occasionally on the banks of rivers…

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  • Close up of Solidago nemoralis flower

    Grey Goldenrod

    Goldenrods are a type of herbaceous flowering plant in the Asteraceae family, also known as the Compositae. Although the plant starts out green, the…

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  • Pale Corydalis close up with stem and flowers

    Pale Corydalis has a Delicate Flower

    Corydalis sempervirens is an attractive biennial native to rocky, shallow-soil sites and cooler climates. It is easy to start from seed and has light…

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  • Close up of white penstemon digitalis

    Foxglove Beardtongue

    Foxglove Beardtongue is a fantastic addition to native plantings, wild gardens, cottage gardens, and naturalized areas. Plant a solitary plant among shorter companions that…

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  • Chimaphila pipsissewa flower

    Pipsissewa is a Rare Evergreen

    Pipsissewa, Chimaphyla umbellata, is rare and remarkable for having leaves all year round; it is an evergreen. As a small perennial flowering plant, it…

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  • Canada Mayflower plant, leaf and flower in a forest

    Canada Mayflower Growing Guide

    Canada Mayflower can form large patches in a wide range of habitats, but it is most common in boreal coniferous forests. They are abundant…

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  • Three wood lily plants with flowers

    Wood Lily is Elegant

    The wood lily (Lilium philadelphicum) is an elegant plant that grows on a single stem and can reach 1 to 3 feet in height.…

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