Select Plants for Your Garden

Foamflower Shows Well in Groups

Welcome wildlife to your garden with Foamflower! A great addition, this plant has green lobed leaves that turn deep purple in falls and produces masses of lightly-scented white star-shaped flowers. Deer resistant, easy maintenance and care – perfect for summer gardens!

Evening Primrose – Oenothera biennis

Evening primroses are beautiful flowers and easy to grow. They open visibly fast every evening, producing an interesting evening spectacle.

Borage Has Many Uses

Experience a beautiful, self-seeding perennial, Borago officinalis, with bright blue star-shaped edible flowers for your herb or wild garden. Its cucumber-flavored flowers and dark green leaves have various medicinal and culinary uses, such as in salads, fruit salads, and as cooked greens. Borage also attracts pollinators, improves the taste of tomatoes, relieves asthmatic symptoms and more. Learn more about the easy-going benefits of Borage!

How to Grow Highbush Blueberries

Learn how to grow highbush blueberries in your garden, from choosing the right soil to ensuring proper watering, for juicy and delicious berries.

Mad-dog Skullcap

Learn all about Mad-dog Skullcap, a member of the mint family with unique serrated leaves and vibrant trumpet-shaped flowers. Read up on the plant's growing conditions, blossoming period, and the curious origin of its name, all in this handy article. Get growing now!

Blooming Daylilies in Beautiful Colours

Learn about my experience growing fingerling potatoes in a cloth bag and the challenges I faced. Find out the benefits of regular pots for potato cultivation and the importance of proper watering.

Fireweed

Fireweed for pollinators: discover the wild magenta willow plant with stunning blooms & its importance for pollinators. Visit North Carolina to witness Fireweed and its unique beauty, or learn more about its edibility, and its potential toxicity to animals.

Tropical Hibiscus and Hardy Hibiscus 

Hibiscus are hardy perennials, while others are annuals, shrubs, or tropical plants. Hibiscus plants are grown for a variety of uses.

Blue-stemmed Goldenrod is well behaved.

See the unique qualities of blue-stemmed goldenrod—attracts pollinators & is deer & rabbit-resistant. Enjoy its bright yellow flowers & bluish stems in native plant gardens, open woodland gardens, borders, wild gardens & more. Prune & divide in spring or fall.

DIY: How To Make And Use Rain Barrels

Rain barrels are simply containers that capture and store rainwater for future use. Purchased or DIY, rain barrels can pay for themselves.

Dahlias Store Energy in their Tubers

Dahlia plants store food and energy on their roots and underground stems called tubers. They look like sweet potatoes.

Eastern White Pine Uses

Experience the warmth, comfort, and stimulation of white pine uses, including clearing airways, boosting immunity, and treating common ailments with its rich vitamin C content.

White Heath Aster

Meta description: Enjoy a late-season burst of color in your garden with White Heath Aster: a bushy, compact plant with many small daisy-like white flowers that can turn your garden completely white. Blooming into fall, it's a great choice for a butterfly, pollinator, or cut flower garden!

Hoary Vervain

the hoary vervain bee, or Evylaeus villosulus. Likewise, it has been recorded that there are over 60 species of butterflies and moths, including the Northern Broken Dash, Sachem Skipper, and large orange sulphur, actively feeding on its flowers. Verbena stricta, or hoary vervain, is a wildflower native to most states in the US. It's known for its beautiful flowers and attracts a variety of bees and butterflies such as honeybees and the Northern Broken Dash. Learn more about this special flower and its features.

Purple Giant Hyssop is Great for Pollinators

Purple Giant Hyssop sets soft plumes of the palest purple flowers that top out at 6 feet, soaring above most other plants in the garden.

White Baneberry and its Stunning Doll’s Eyes