Dependable Blooms to Brighten Your Landscape Everyone wants a beautiful garden, but not everyone wants to have to coddle plants that give only limited return of bloom for a good garden show. It’s not as if the modern homeowner has access to the kind of professional gardener that made the English gardens of the early […]
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Peonies in my Garden
I grow the herbaceous type of peony, both the types with single and double blooms. I love their fragrance and the delicate satin texture of their petals. They have good looking foliage on round bush-like plants, and for lots of people they say “Spring has truly arrived”. Their blooms are so full and opulent, alone […]
Siberian Iris, Hardy Elegance
Siberian irises are one of my favorite garden plants, and they hold a sentimental value as well. Growing up, we had an impressive stand of a deep purple variety that I believe was “Caesar’s Brother” that old centurion of perennial gardens. Beware “Hand-Me-Down” Names For me, they were something out of the Japanese prints my […]
