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Flat-Topped Aster
The Flat-topped Aster attracts a wide range of types of pollinators: long-and short-tongued bees, wasps, beetles, flies, and butterflies. It is a great candidate…
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Common Boneset Care and Use
Native to the marshes of North America, common boneset has a long history of use as a medicine and a lovely, recognizable appearance. It…
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Swamp Rose Mallow
Swamp Rose Mallow, known as hibiscus moscheutos, has exotic, oversized flowers that are very striking. There are five overlapping petals, each with a reddish-purple…
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Common Blue Violet Is an Offical Flower
Common Blue Violet is a ground cover that provides an early nectar source for bees and other pollinators. It is also self-seeding and spreads.…
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Butterfly Milkweed Attracts Pollinators
Butterfly Milkweed is valued for its magnificent clusters of bright orange to yellow-orange blooms that bloom all summer. They tend to be a great…
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Spotted Beebalm
The Spotted Beebalm is an unusual beauty in form and colour, distinguished by its pagoda-like blossoms. It has eye-catching clusters of creamy purple-spotted tubular…
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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…
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Dense Blazing Star
Dense Blazing Star, Liatris spicata, has long-lasting purple wands of packed blooms that face all directions and bloom from the top of the stem…
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Common Sneezeweed
Common Sneezeweed looks gorgeous when planted en masse and mixes wonderfully with decorative grasses or other perennial plants. It has daisy-like blooms that often…
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Sharp-lobed Hepatica is an Early Spring Bloomer
Hepaticas are among the first flowers to bloom in the spring. The flowers close at night and on cloudy days when pollinators are not…
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Swamp Milkweed
Swamp milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) is known for its ability to thrive in swampy areas and wet meadows. It is a monarch butterfly host plant…
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Zigzag Goldenrod Attracts Pollinators
Zigzag Goldenrod, also known as Solidago flexicaulis, is distinguished by its toothed, broad-ovate leaves and the shape of its stem. The name comes from…
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Evening Primrose – Oenothera biennis
Evening primroses are generally known as flowers that close during daylight hours. Evening primroses are beautiful flowers and easy to grow. They open visibly…
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New England Aster for Late Season Blooms
The New England Aster is an attractive addition to any pollinator or natural garden. It is easily recognised by its huge rose-purple blooms, which…
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Lilac Care and Propagation
Lilacs are some of the most beautiful plants, with their vibrant colours and sweet fragrance! They are perfect for any landscaping application, including hedges, foundation plantings, small…
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Acid Loving Plants That Like Acidic Soil
If you have acidic soil which is below a pH of 7, but ideally hanging out at around 5.5, you could have great ground…
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Plants that Attract Monarch Butterflies
Monarch butterflies are superb pollinators, and if they are fed plants they enjoy, they will pollinate your entire garden. Butterflies require two kinds of…
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Plants That Love The Sun
Plants that love the sun may provide vitality and colour to bare regions in the landscape. Before selecting plants, determine where the sun shines…
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Care For The Salvia Plant: Flower, Medicinal and Culinary
The more than 900 species more commonly known as sages are related to Nepeta (Catmint) and Monarda (Bee Balm). The common sage The common…
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How To Grow Lemon Trees From Seed
There is something about the fresh smell of a flowering lemon tree. Lush, dark green, oval leaves shining in the sunlight. Their fragrant, white…
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Tomato Cotyledons and Pruning Roses
They have their little seed leaves (tomato cotyledons) waving at me and are all reaching for the light. I am continuing to leave them…
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The Top 8 Plants That Attract Hummingbirds
We’ll be talking about 8 different plants that appeal to hummingbirds, going into the details of their origin, life cycle, and appearance. But first,…
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Awesome Astilbe – Shade, Sun and Moisture
Astilbes are the drama queens of the shade garden. You cannot help but admire these ‘no-fuss’ divas for their beauty and grace.
