Designing a Perennial Garden to Bloom All Summer part 1

Without further ado, here’s the first video in the two-part series on designing a perennial flower bed to bloom all summer.

Perennial Flower Course

A quick note – here’s a link to the start of the perennial flower course This one is just starting with this link going to the main course-development page where readers ask questions and I organize and get ready to provide answers.

Butterfly Garden Plants Video

Here’s a quick video on some good butterfly garden plants for the perennial flower garden. You can get a more complete list of plants here. ;

When the Going Gets Tough

The tough go shopping. Here’s what the back of our SUV looked like after the trip to Heritage Perennials. I worked for this nursery for a few years – a premium source of perennials. For the record – 137 pots – – 80 1-gallon pots (20cm) and 47 smaller sizes. (9 and 15cm) and I’m [...]

Phallic Gardening

This is an Amorphophallus – a wonderful bulbous plant. I dig it up, take indoors ever fall to overwinter it in a cool dark, damp spot and it’s getting larger and larger for me. Mind you, at this time of year it causes a small sensation with garden visitors. My hope is to get it [...]

My Annual Garden Center Tours Part 1

Every spring, I take a run around many of the local garden centers, checking them out and picking up stuff. Call it quality control. Let me make it quite clear that having run a high-end nursery for almost 25 years where I grew 6-800 varieties of annuals, 1600-1800 varieties of perennials and had the highest [...]

Flower Bulb Picture Contest

Our annual flower bulb picture contest is ON right now. Click here to upload pics and see the rules Prizes include 10 boxes of bulbs (5 for Canadians and 5 for US gardeners). These boxes are the same ones I receive every year and nobody else in your neighborhood unless you live close to a [...]

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