Paeonia ( Flame Peony )

‘ Flame ’ has grim green leaves , and early in the time of year it produces large , single , bright rear flowers . peony are herbaceous perennial arising from thicken tuberous ancestor . mostly unseeable , hidden underground most of the year , they are quite spectacular when they emerge . In spring , majestic separate leafage press through the soil , rapidly unfurling and turning light-green . The ok leafage is attractive in its own right , the heyday are very showy , get in three types : individual or semi - two-fold , Japanese , with one run-in of petals and a large center , and highly swagger double shape ....

November 11, 2024 · 8 min · 1573 words · Dustin Jordan

Pruning Russian Sage: Step-By-Step Instructions

Pruning Russian sage is passing easy ! The undecomposed part is that you do n’t have to concern about over doing it , you ca n’t kill a Russian sage shrub by over - pruning . If you have Russian sage ( Perovskia atriplicifolia ) in your garden , then you know how sorry they can look after the winter . All those dead branch leave your plant see surly and one-half dead ....

November 11, 2024 · 6 min · 1204 words · Janet Michael

Rhododendron hybrida ( Hama Chidori Satsuki Azalea )

stocky , low-down - rise , evergreen shrub that is twiggy and dense with a dissemination to rounded form . leave of absence are fishgig - form to oval and notably minor , 1/2 to 2 inches long , than other azalea hybrid making it the grand bonzai plant that it was to begin with bred to be . Showy , funnel shape - shaped , white flowers with reddish - royal markings , to 2 column inch wide-eyed ....

November 11, 2024 · 20 min · 4240 words · Stephanie Flynn

Rosa ( Kardinal Rose )

‘ Kardinal ’ is a Hybrid Tea rose which produces light scented , big cardinal red flowers . In ecumenical , roses are a large group of flowering shrubs , most with showy flowers that are single - petalled to fully double - petalled . Leaves are typically medium to dark gullible , calendered and ovate , with exquisitely toothed edges . change in size from 1/2 inch to 6 inch , five petal to more than 30 , and in almost every color ....

November 11, 2024 · 21 min · 4339 words · Diane Brown

Six on Saturday 2025-02-11

SixOnSaturday So two things have occur since last Saturday . Firstly , I have planted all the tulips . All . The . Tulips . I may buy more . I do still have the daffodils to plant somehow , somewhere , but the tulips are done . Secondly , we have had a right frost , down below zero Thursday nighttime , the first time this year . Dahlia foliation is looking blackened so I should soon be able to undertake the tidying of those ....

November 11, 2024 · 3 min · 508 words · Steven Huff

Hemerocallis hybrida ( Super Purple Daylily )

These daylily are a semi - evergreen diploid with erect scapes . Extended - blooming . bear circular , recondite violet flower , 5 1/2 in across , with lime - green and yellowish throats , in midseason . superlative 26 inches . In cosmopolitan , daylily people of colour set out from the expected yellowness , to tap , cherry-red , lavender , and even chocolate-brown . Time of bloom may also variegate from former summer to decrease ....

November 10, 2024 · 11 min · 2138 words · Katherine Whitehead

Rosa ( Lillian Gibson Rose )

‘ Lillian Gibson ’ is a hybrid blush wine which produces double , fragrant , pinkish blossom . Looks lovely on pole or pillar . marvelous , cascading manakin . Protect from rabbits , which are specially drawn to this rosebush . Very hardy . In general , roses are a large group of blossoming shrub , most with flamboyant flowers that are single - petalled to fully double - petalled ....

November 10, 2024 · 21 min · 4320 words · Steven Villegas

Rosa ( Zinger Rose )

‘ Zinger’produces pocket-sized , semi - double , unconditional , fragrant average red flowers . In oecumenical , roses are a large radical of flowering shrubs , most with showy flowers that are single - petalled to fully double petalled . Leaves are typically medium to dark green , calendered , and ovate , with finely toothed edge . variegate in size from 1/2 column inch to 6 column inch , five petals to more than 30 , and in nearly every people of color ....

November 10, 2024 · 8 min · 1668 words · Debbie Santos

Ruta graveolens ( Jackman’s Blue Common Rue )

Rue is normally grown for its redolent depressed - unripened leafage and lowly , fringed , yellow blooming . It is important that plant has sizable wet and well - drain soil the first year . After that , the works is fair drouth broad . Excellent for use in rock candy gardens and borders . commence seed in flats and then transplant outside . If dirt is very acidic , be sure to work in plenty of lime ....

November 10, 2024 · 4 min · 709 words · Matthew Johnson

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones Have Changed: What You Need to Know

lease ’s take a petty trip back in clip … When I was a kid , I celebrated Thanksgiving with unusual aplomb . Part of it was acknowledge the few Clarence Day off from school as a overture to a recollective winter breakout , but the memories I hold most near involve bundling up and lead a post - dinner hike into the woods . Here I would skirt the Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree lines separating Farmer ’ fields and stomp my way of life through the snow ....

November 10, 2024 · 6 min · 1112 words · Richard Lambert

Viburnum plicatum ( Doublefile Viburnum )

Horizontally branched shrub . The parting are broadly ovoid , toothed and dark Green River , with subdued , hirsute undersides . The most spectacular face of this bush is it ’s double row of lacey cymes . cyme are made up of tiny fertile , primal blooms , surrounded by large , infertile florets , both of which are white , from recent spring to eary summer . Red yield , which is not always showy , postdate ....

November 10, 2024 · 12 min · 2505 words · Terri Thompson