By Ronnie Dauber, Garden Guides Contributor
About Petunias
Petunias are popular low-lying annuals that brag of their diversity of brilliant color and attractive green foliage. They bloom all summer with little maintenance and make perfect centerpieces to containers and hanging baskets and serve as good low bordering color to gardens.
Site Preparation
Petunias require soil that is a peat […]
Lovely grown in pots, troughs, or as mass plantings, pansies have never gone out of fashion. These lightly scented flowers are […]
By Kate Torpie, Garden Guides Contributor
About Nasturtium
Tropaeolum, or Nasturtium is a great flower for the beginning gardener. In fact, it does quite well with a little benign neglect. Its varieties grow in bushes, climbers and trailers. It can be used on a trellis, in an empty spot of a garden or hanging over in a […]
By Ronnie Dauber, Garden Guides Contributor Common Mallow is a fast growing and easy spreading annual weed that establishes itself in areas where there is low to no maintenance such as along culverts, fence lines or property boundary lines. Plants reproduce by seed and it’s these seeds that come up in the spring, giving it […]
By Kate Torpie, Garden Guides Contributor
About Morning Glories
Ipomoea is the name for the huge family more commonly known as Morning Glories. These include perennials, biennials and annuals. They range in color from pink to white to deep blue. They grow in vines and bushes. Sounds confusing? Don’t worry. No matter what variety you pick, they […]
Meadow foam is sometimes called fried egg or poached egg flower for it’s yellow center with white edges. They grow 8-12 […]
Marigolds are easy to grow and have a long flowering period. African marigolds have a upright growth and can reach a […]
Lobelia was introduced more than 200 years ago from the region around the Cape of Good Hope. The original wild forms […]
This charming, old-fashioned plant is at home in cottage gardens. During very hot weather the plant will produce fewer flowers, but […]
The large, graceful, hibiscus-like blooms of the rose mallow (also called tree mallow) […]
