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How to Grow and Care for Wintergreen

Give your garden an update this season with wintergreen – featuring gorgeous, white bell-shaped flowers and bright, pinkish-red berries. Its glossy, evergreen foliage adds beauty, and it makes an excellent ground cover for shady areas. Plant wintergreen to enjoy it’s vibrant ground cover and fragrant, evergreen foliage!

Culver’s Root is a Hardy Perennial

Veronicastrum virginicum, also known as Culver's Root, is a tall and hardy perennial that adds unique vertical accents to any yard for summer to fall. Perfect for prairies, damp meadows, and open forests, its cluster of white florets resemble a beautiful candelabra. An ideal choice for wildflower gardens and layered beds.

Squarrose Goldenrod

Learn about the distinctive Squarrose Goldenrod and its tall cluster of flowers. This perennial herb can reach a height of 6 ft and produces a rosette of large leaves at its base. Up to 200 tiny yellow flower heads cover its slender, elongated array, attracting many insects such as bees, bumblebees, wasps, butterflies, and moths. Identify it and discover its prolific nature!

Growth and Care for Prickly Pear Cactus

Add the distinctive Prickly Pear Cactus to your garden and get vibrant yellow flowers! Enjoy its edible fruit, flowers, stems, and leaves. Learn the best growing conditions and how to care for it. Enjoy this unique, cold-hardy cactus, with over 100 species distinguished by its spiny, club-shaped pads.

Stiff Goldenrod

Plant Stiff Goldenrod for a vibrant fall display in prairie gardens, cottage gardens and pollinator gardens. This multi-functional flowering plant is easy to grow and its leaves in fall change to lovely colors of red. Learn more about this impressive species.