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 [...]

Perennial Plant of the Year: Baptisia australis

Perennial Plant of the YearT: Baptisia australis has always been one of my favorite perennials. One of the taller violet-blue flowers you can have for your early summer garden. This means of course you can put it to the middle-back of the border where little else is flowering (except iris) at this time of year. [...]

Actaea rubra

Actaea rubra is one of my favorite shade plants. Perfect for mid-to-late summer berries if grown in shade and on the moist side (not for the dry shade garden). The berries are quite poisonous (hence the popular name of Baneberry) and small children should be watched carefully around this plant. Note there is a white [...]

Coneflowers yet again

Just when you think you understand and have written about as much as your reader’s can stomach about coneflowers, along comes another rash of questions and fellow garden writers writing about this plant. When the new plants started appearing on the gardening scene, I remember hearing from the originating nurseries that we in the production [...]

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