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259 detailed profiles covering origin, appearance, light, watering, propagation and problems for every garden plant.

Garden Plants
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Rose (Rosa)

Rose (Rosa)

The Rose is the most beloved garden plant in the world - the flower of romance, …
Hydrangea

Hydrangea

The Hydrangea is the big, billowing, generous flowering shrub that anchors so ma…
Lavender

Lavender

Lavender is the silver-leaved, purple-spiked shrub that turns a garden into a sc…
Lilac

Lilac

The lilac is the shrub that announces spring with scent.
Rhododendron & Azalea

Rhododendron & Azalea

Rhododendrons and azaleas are the great spring showstoppers of the acid-soil gar…
Camellia

Camellia

The camellia is the aristocrat of the shade garden - a glossy, evergreen shrub t…
Butterfly Bush (Buddleja)

Butterfly Bush (Buddleja)

The butterfly bush earns its name in the most literal way - in summer, its long …
Forsythia

Forsythia

Forsythia is the shrub that sets the early spring garden alight.
Hibiscus (Hardy & Shrub)

Hibiscus (Hardy & Shrub)

Hibiscus brings a touch of the tropics to temperate gardens.
Spirea

Spirea

Spirea (also spelled spiraea) is one of the most dependable, easy-going flowerin…
Flowering Tobacco (Nicotiana)

Flowering Tobacco (Nicotiana)

Flowering Tobacco is the cottage-garden charmer grown for its clusters of slende…
Cockscomb (Celosia)

Cockscomb (Celosia)

Celosia is one of the most vivid plants you can grow, valued for its intensely c…
Stock (Matthiola)

Stock (Matthiola)

Stock is one of the most intensely fragrant flowers you can grow - a cool-season…
Gaura (Oenothera lindheimeri)

Gaura (Oenothera lindheimeri)

Gaura, often sold as "Whirling Butterflies," is a graceful, airy perennial that …
Magnolia (Magnolia)

Magnolia (Magnolia)

The Magnolia is one of the great flowering plants of the garden - an ancient gro…
Dogwood (Cornus)

Dogwood (Cornus)

Dogwood is a versatile group of garden plants grown for two very different reaso…
Pampas Grass (Cortaderia selloana)

Pampas Grass (Cortaderia selloana)

Pampas grass is one of the most dramatic ornamental grasses you can grow - a hug…
Fountain Grass (Pennisetum)

Fountain Grass (Pennisetum)

Fountain grass is one of the most graceful and popular ornamental grasses for th…
Star Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides)

Star Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides)

Star Jasmine is one of the most rewarding evergreen climbers you can grow - glos…
Passionflower (Passiflora)

Passionflower (Passiflora)

The Passionflower is one of the most extraordinary and exotic-looking climbers y…
Peony

Peony

The peony is one of the most beloved and longest-lived plants in the garden - a …
Hardy Fuchsia (Fuchsia magellanica)

Hardy Fuchsia (Fuchsia magellanica)

The Hardy Fuchsia is the tough, garden-worthy cousin of the tender fuchsias sold…
Feather Reed Grass

Feather Reed Grass

Feather Reed Grass 'Karl Foerster' is the exclamation mark of modern garden desi…
Blue Fescue

Blue Fescue

Blue Fescue is the pincushion of the grass world - a neat, silver-blue dome the …
Maiden Grass (Miscanthus)

Maiden Grass (Miscanthus)

Maiden Grass is the grande dame of the autumn garden - a fountain of fine archin…
Switchgrass

Switchgrass

Switchgrass is the prairie in a plant - an upright North American native whose a…
Pink Muhly Grass

Pink Muhly Grass

Pink Muhly Grass performs the garden's best magic trick: an unassuming green tuf…
Japanese Forest Grass

Japanese Forest Grass

Japanese Forest Grass is the only great ornamental grass for SHADE - a slow, ele…
Blue Oat Grass

Blue Oat Grass

Blue Oat Grass is blue fescue's big brother - the same steel-blue needles scaled…
Mexican Feather Grass

Mexican Feather Grass

Mexican Feather Grass is pure motion - the finest-textured grass in cultivation,…
Little Bluestem

Little Bluestem

Little Bluestem is the prairie's autumn fire - a knee-high native whose blue-gre…
Hosta

Hosta

The hosta is the undisputed king of the shade garden - grown not for flowers but…
Tufted Hair Grass

Tufted Hair Grass

Tufted Hair Grass throws the garden's finest veil - a dark evergreen tussock tha…
Purple Moor Grass

Purple Moor Grass

Purple Moor Grass is the see-through grass - transparent curtains of wiry stems …
Prairie Dropseed

Prairie Dropseed

Prairie Dropseed is the connoisseur's groundcover grass - a fountain of emerald …
Japanese Sedge

Japanese Sedge

Japanese Sedge is the grass-look for places grasses refuse: dry shade under tree…
Black Mondo Grass

Black Mondo Grass

Black Mondo Grass is the darkest plant in horticulture - genuinely near-black, s…
Liriope (Lilyturf)

Liriope (Lilyturf)

Liriope is the workhorse 'grass' of shade edging - evergreen strappy tufts that …
Quaking Grass

Quaking Grass

Quaking Grass is the garden's wind chime - dangling heart-shaped seed lockets th…
Blue Grama Grass

Blue Grama Grass

Blue Grama is the grass with eyelashes - its seed heads hang sideways like tiny …
Pheasant's Tail Grass

Pheasant's Tail Grass

Pheasant's Tail Grass is the sunset in foliage form - an arching New Zealand eve…
Ravenna Grass

Ravenna Grass

Ravenna Grass is the giant for cold climates - 'hardy pampas' that rockets silve…
Daylily (Hemerocallis)

Daylily (Hemerocallis)

The daylily is the workhorse of the summer border - a perennial so tough, so ada…
Hybrid Tea Roses

Hybrid Tea Roses

Hybrid teas are THE florist rose - one large, high-centered, spiraled bloom per …
Floribunda Roses

Floribunda Roses

Floribundas trade the hybrid tea's single perfect bloom for SPRAYS of them - clu…
Grandiflora Roses

Grandiflora Roses

Grandifloras are the tall handshake between hybrid tea and floribunda - hybrid-t…
Rugosa Roses

Rugosa Roses

Rugosas are the iron roses - Japanese beach natives with crinkled disease-proof …
Miniature Roses

Miniature Roses

Miniature roses are the full rose experience at doll's-house scale - true geneti…
Rambler Roses

Rambler Roses

Ramblers are the once-a-year avalanche - vast flexible-caned roses that swallow …
English Roses (David Austin)

English Roses (David Austin)

David Austin's English roses are the modern romantics - old-rose cupped and quar…
'Peace' Rose

'Peace' Rose

'Peace' is the most famous rose ever bred - huge yellow blooms edged in pink, sm…
'Mister Lincoln' Rose

'Mister Lincoln' Rose

'Mister Lincoln' is THE red rose of gardens - velvet crimson, long-stemmed and d…
'Double Delight' Rose

'Double Delight' Rose

'Double Delight' is two roses in one bloom - cream hearts that blush crimson whe…
Coneflower (Echinacea)

Coneflower (Echinacea)

The coneflower is one of the great pillars of the modern naturalistic garden - a…
'Fragrant Cloud' Rose

'Fragrant Cloud' Rose

'Fragrant Cloud' is what it says on the label - frequently rated the most fragra…
'Queen Elizabeth' Rose

'Queen Elizabeth' Rose

'Queen Elizabeth' is the rose that founded a class - the original grandiflora of…
'Iceberg' Rose

'Iceberg' Rose

'Iceberg' is the world's white rose - the 1958 German floribunda that smothers i…
'Julia Child' Rose

'Julia Child' Rose

'Julia Child' is butter in rose form - the golden floribunda the chef herself pi…
'Knock Out' Rose

'Knock Out' Rose

'Knock Out' changed who grows roses - the 2000 landscape shrub that blooms nonst…
'New Dawn' Rose

'New Dawn' Rose

'New Dawn' holds patent #1 - literally the first plant ever patented (1930) - an…
'Eden' Rose (Pierre de Ronsard)

'Eden' Rose (Pierre de Ronsard)

'Eden' - Europe's 'Pierre de Ronsard' - is the wedding rose: giant old-world cup…
'Zéphirine Drouhin' Rose

'Zéphirine Drouhin' Rose

'Zéphirine Drouhin' solves the doorway problem - a THORNLESS climbing Bourbon fr…
'Graham Thomas' Rose

'Graham Thomas' Rose

'Graham Thomas' is the yellow flag of the English-rose revolution - the 1983 Aus…
'Gertrude Jekyll' Rose

'Gertrude Jekyll' Rose

'Gertrude Jekyll' carries the scent the perfume industry buys - the quintessenti…
Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia)

Black-Eyed Susan (Rudbeckia)

Black-eyed Susan is pure garden sunshine - masses of golden-yellow daisy flowers…
'Lady of Shalott' Rose

'Lady of Shalott' Rose

'Lady of Shalott' is the Austin they recommend to beginners - a sunset-orange En…
'Cécile Brünner' Rose

'Cécile Brünner' Rose

'Cécile Brünner' is the sweetheart rose - perfect miniature hybrid-tea buds the …
Snowdrop

Snowdrop

Snowdrops are winter's white flags - the first flower of the year, pushing throu…
Crown Imperial

Crown Imperial

The crown imperial is the empress of spring bulbs - a meter-tall stem crowned wi…
Snake's Head Fritillary

Snake's Head Fritillary

The snake's head fritillary wears the strangest pattern in spring - nodding bell…
Winter Aconite

Winter Aconite

Winter aconites are spilled gold coins on the February floor - buttercup-yellow …
Siberian Squill

Siberian Squill

Siberian squill paints lawns BLUE - true gentian-blue nodding bells, 10 cm tall,…
Glory-of-the-Snow

Glory-of-the-Snow

Glory-of-the-snow opens star-blue flowers with white hearts the moment drifts me…
Camassia

Camassia

Camassia is the meadow spire America gave the bulb world - meter-tall wands of s…
Foxtail Lily

Foxtail Lily

Foxtail lilies are the desert rockets - two-meter towers packed with thousands o…
Salvia

Salvia

Salvia is one of the most useful and rewarding groups of plants in the whole gar…
Nerine

Nerine

Nerines are October's fireworks - naked stems bursting into sugar-pink lily spra…
Autumn Crocus (Colchicum)

Autumn Crocus (Colchicum)

Colchicums are September's naked ladies - goblet blooms of pink-lilac erupting l…
Hardy Cyclamen

Hardy Cyclamen

Hardy cyclamen solve the impossible spot - DRY SHADE under trees - with shuttlec…
Snowflake (Leucojum)

Snowflake (Leucojum)

Snowflakes are snowdrops scaled UP for late spring - half-meter stems dangling c…
Dutch Iris

Dutch Iris

Dutch iris are the florist's iris from a cheap fall bulb - orchid-elegant blooms…
Reticulata Iris

Reticulata Iris

Reticulata iris are February's jewels - 10 cm sapphire-and-gold iris blooms open…
English Bluebell

English Bluebell

The English bluebell is the haze of legend - the violet-blue, honey-scented mist…
Persian Buttercup

Persian Buttercup

Ranunculus are the roses that grow from claws - impossibly layered crepe-paper b…
Grecian Windflower

Grecian Windflower

Grecian windflowers are the daisy carpet of March - starry sky-blue, pink and wh…
Star-of-Bethlehem

Star-of-Bethlehem

Ornithogalums split into two stories: the garden star-of-Bethlehem - white satin…
Catmint (Nepeta)

Catmint (Nepeta)

Catmint is a soft, romantic, hard-working perennial that earns its place in almo…
Bloodgood Japanese Maple

Bloodgood Japanese Maple

'Bloodgood' is the benchmark red-leaf Japanese maple, prized because its deep pu…
Coral Bark Japanese Maple

Coral Bark Japanese Maple

The Coral Bark Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum 'Sango-kaku') is a deciduous small …
Crimson Queen Japanese Maple

Crimson Queen Japanese Maple

Crimson Queen is a weeping, laceleaf Japanese maple prized for holding its deep …
Butterfly Japanese Maple

Butterfly Japanese Maple

'Butterfly' is a compact, variegated Japanese maple prized for its small, deeply…
Emperor 1 Japanese Maple

Emperor 1 Japanese Maple

Emperor 1 is one of the most dependable upright red-leaf Japanese maples, prized…
Orangeola Japanese Maple

Orangeola Japanese Maple

Orangeola is a cascading laceleaf Japanese maple prized for foliage that shifts …
Viridis Japanese Maple

Viridis Japanese Maple

'Viridis' is a green-leaved laceleaf Japanese maple prized for its finely dissec…
Tamukeyama Japanese Maple

Tamukeyama Japanese Maple

Tamukeyama is a weeping, cutleaf (dissectum) Japanese maple prized for deep crim…
Fireglow Japanese Maple

Fireglow Japanese Maple

Fireglow is an upright, red-leaf Japanese maple prized for holding its rich ruby…
Shishigashira Japanese Maple

Shishigashira Japanese Maple

Shishigashira is one of the most recognisable of all Japanese maples, prized for…
Phlox

Phlox

Phlox is a quintessential perennial of the cottage and summer border - generous,…
Osakazuki Japanese Maple

Osakazuki Japanese Maple

'Osakazuki' is an old and widely respected upright Japanese maple grown almost e…
Ukigumo Japanese Maple

Ukigumo Japanese Maple

Ukigumo is a variegated Japanese maple prized for foliage that looks dusted with…
Garnet Japanese Maple

Garnet Japanese Maple

Garnet is a laceleaf (dissectum) cultivar of Japanese maple grown for its deeply…
Beni Kawa Japanese Maple

Beni Kawa Japanese Maple

Beni Kawa is a coral-bark Japanese maple grown chiefly for its winter show: as t…
Waterfall Japanese Maple

Waterfall Japanese Maple

'Waterfall' is a green laceleaf Japanese maple prized for its strongly weeping h…
Sum and Substance Hosta

Sum and Substance Hosta

Sum and Substance is one of the largest and most recognisable gold hostas ever i…
Frances Williams Hosta

Frances Williams Hosta

Frances Williams is one of the most recognisable large blue hostas, prized for i…
Blue Angel Hosta

Blue Angel Hosta

Blue Angel is one of the largest and most dramatic blue-leaved hostas, forming a…
Patriot Hosta

Patriot Hosta

Patriot is one of the most popular white-edged hostas, prized for the exceptiona…
June Hosta

June Hosta

June Hosta (Hosta 'June') is a compact, colour-shifting foliage plant prized for…
Astilbe

Astilbe

Astilbe is the answer to one of gardening's most common problems: how to bring c…
Empress Wu Hosta

Empress Wu Hosta

'Empress Wu' is widely regarded as the largest hosta cultivar ever introduced, f…
Guacamole Hosta

Guacamole Hosta

Guacamole Hosta is a large, vigorous shade perennial prized for big, glossy appl…
Halcyon Hosta

Halcyon Hosta

Halcyon is one of the bluest of all hostas, prized for its thick, spear-shaped l…
Krossa Regal Hosta

Krossa Regal Hosta

Krossa Regal is one of the most architecturally striking hostas, prized for its …
Golden Tiara Hosta

Golden Tiara Hosta

Golden Tiara is a compact, fast-growing hosta prized for its tidy mounds of smal…
Sagae Hosta

Sagae Hosta

Sagae is a large, upright, vase-shaped hosta prized for its thick blue-green lea…
First Frost Hosta

First Frost Hosta

First Frost is a medium-sized shade hosta prized for its blue-green heart-shaped…
Stained Glass Hosta

Stained Glass Hosta

Stained Glass is a bright, glossy-leaved hosta prized for the way its golden cen…
Fire and Ice Hosta

Fire and Ice Hosta

Fire and Ice is a compact, high-contrast hosta grown for its dramatic reverse va…
Great Expectations Hosta

Great Expectations Hosta

Great Expectations is a striking variegated hosta prized for its dramatic revers…
Coral Bells (Heuchera)

Coral Bells (Heuchera)

Coral bells, Heuchera, is one of the most versatile foliage perennials in the mo…
Stella de Oro Daylily

Stella de Oro Daylily

Stella de Oro is the daylily that made reblooming daylilies a garden staple - a …
Happy Returns Daylily

Happy Returns Daylily

Happy Returns is a compact, reblooming daylily prized for its clean lemon-yellow…
Pardon Me Daylily

Pardon Me Daylily

Pardon Me is a compact, reblooming daylily prized for its cheerful cranberry-red…
Ruby Spider Daylily

Ruby Spider Daylily

Ruby Spider is a large spider-form daylily prized for its enormous flowers, whic…
Primal Scream Daylily

Primal Scream Daylily

Primal Scream is a large-flowered daylily prized for its intense tangerine-orang…
Going Bananas Daylily

Going Bananas Daylily

Going Bananas is a compact, reblooming daylily prized for clear, bright lemon-ye…
Chicago Apache Daylily

Chicago Apache Daylily

Chicago Apache is a bold, tetraploid daylily prized for its saturated scarlet-re…
Little Grapette Daylily

Little Grapette Daylily

Little Grapette is a compact, miniature daylily prized for its rich grape-purple…
Rocket City Daylily

Rocket City Daylily

Rocket City is a classic, tall daylily prized for its large, glowing tangerine-o…
Purple de Oro Daylily

Purple de Oro Daylily

Purple de Oro is a compact, reblooming daylily grown for its rosy purple to lave…
Sedum / Stonecrop

Sedum / Stonecrop

Sedum, also called stonecrop, is the ultimate easy plant - a hardy succulent per…
Frans Hals Daylily

Frans Hals Daylily

'Frans Hals' is a classic bicolour daylily prized for its bold, circus-bright bl…
South Seas Daylily

South Seas Daylily

South Seas is a warm coral-tangerine daylily prized for its clean, ruffled bloom…
Cafe au Lait Dahlia

Cafe au Lait Dahlia

Cafe au Lait is one of the most sought-after dinnerplate dahlias, prized for eno…
Bishop of Llandaff Dahlia

Bishop of Llandaff Dahlia

The Bishop of Llandaff Dahlia (Dahlia 'Bishop of Llandaff') is a heritage cultiv…
Thomas Edison Dahlia

Thomas Edison Dahlia

Thomas Edison is a classic dinnerplate decorative dahlia (Dahlia 'Thomas Edison'…
Karma Choc Dahlia

Karma Choc Dahlia

Karma Choc is a decorative dahlia prized for its unusually dark, chocolate-red t…
Otto's Thrill Dahlia

Otto's Thrill Dahlia

Otto's Thrill is a classic "dinnerplate" dahlia prized for its enormous soft-pin…
Sneezy Dahlia

Sneezy Dahlia

Sneezy is a compact single-flowered dwarf bedding dahlia (Dahlia 'Sneezy') prize…
Labyrinth Dahlia

Labyrinth Dahlia

Labyrinth is a large decorative "dinnerplate" dahlia prized for its swirling, ha…
Jowey Winnie Dahlia

Jowey Winnie Dahlia

Jowey Winnie is a ball-type dahlia prized for its almost perfectly spherical, ti…
Bearded Iris

Bearded Iris

The bearded iris is one of the most striking and architectural flowers in the ga…
Honka Dahlia

Honka Dahlia

Honka is a star- or orchid-flowering dahlia grown for its clean, uncluttered sin…
David Howard Dahlia

David Howard Dahlia

David Howard is a decorative dahlia prized for the strong contrast between its w…
Sylvia Dahlia

Sylvia Dahlia

Sylvia Dahlia is a ball-type dahlia prized for its neatly rounded, warm apricot …
Jackmanii Clematis

Jackmanii Clematis

Jackmanii is the classic large-flowered purple clematis, prized for its saucer-s…
Nelly Moser Clematis

Nelly Moser Clematis

Nelly Moser is one of the most recognisable large-flowered clematis, prized for …
The President Clematis

The President Clematis

The President is one of the oldest and most reliable large-flowered clematis, pr…
Ville de Lyon Clematis

Ville de Lyon Clematis

Ville de Lyon is a classic large-flowered climbing clematis prized for its bold …
Niobe Clematis

Niobe Clematis

Niobe is a large-flowered climbing clematis prized for some of the darkest, most…
Comtesse de Bouchaud Clematis

Comtesse de Bouchaud Clematis

Comtesse de Bouchaud is one of the most dependable and free-flowering large-flow…
Ernest Markham Clematis

Ernest Markham Clematis

Ernest Markham is a late-flowering, large-flowered clematis prized for its glowi…
Hardy Geranium / Cranesbill

Hardy Geranium / Cranesbill

The hardy geranium - properly called cranesbill - is one of the most genuinely u…
Hagley Hybrid Clematis

Hagley Hybrid Clematis

Hagley Hybrid is a compact large-flowered clematis prized for its satiny shell-p…
Rouge Cardinal Clematis

Rouge Cardinal Clematis

Rouge Cardinal is a large-flowered climbing clematis prized for its deep, velvet…
Multi Blue Clematis

Multi Blue Clematis

Multi Blue is a large-flowered climbing clematis grown for its unusual double bl…
Endless Summer Hydrangea

Endless Summer Hydrangea

Endless Summer is a reblooming bigleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla 'Endless…
Nikko Blue Hydrangea

Nikko Blue Hydrangea

Nikko Blue is one of the best known mophead bigleaf hydrangeas, grown for its la…
Annabelle Hydrangea

Annabelle Hydrangea

Annabelle is a smooth hydrangea prized for its enormous rounded heads of pure wh…
Limelight Hydrangea

Limelight Hydrangea

Limelight is a panicle hydrangea prized for the cool, lime-green tint of its hug…
Bobo Hydrangea

Bobo Hydrangea

Bobo is a compact panicle hydrangea prized for its outsized flower display on a …
Pinky Winky Hydrangea

Pinky Winky Hydrangea

Pinky Winky is a panicle hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata 'Pinky Winky') grown fo…
Delphinium

Delphinium

The delphinium is the grand statement of the classic English-style summer border…
Little Lime Hydrangea

Little Lime Hydrangea

Little Lime is a compact, dwarf panicle hydrangea (Hydrangea paniculata 'Little …
Vanilla Strawberry Hydrangea

Vanilla Strawberry Hydrangea

Vanilla Strawberry is a panicle hydrangea grown for large cone-shaped flower clu…
Incrediball Hydrangea

Incrediball Hydrangea

Incrediball is a smooth hydrangea bred as a sturdier successor to the classic 'A…
Sarah Bernhardt Peony

Sarah Bernhardt Peony

'Sarah Bernhardt' is the classic pink garden peony (Paeonia 'Sarah Bernhardt'), …
Karl Rosenfield Peony

Karl Rosenfield Peony

'Karl Rosenfield' is one of the best known deep red double peonies, prized for l…
Festiva Maxima Peony

Festiva Maxima Peony

Festiva Maxima is one of the oldest and most enduring garden peonies still in wi…
Bowl of Beauty Peony

Bowl of Beauty Peony

'Bowl of Beauty' is one of the most recognisable herbaceous peonies, prized for …
Coral Charm Peony

Coral Charm Peony

Coral Charm is a herbaceous coral-hybrid peony prized for large, semi-double blo…
Bartzella Itoh Peony

Bartzella Itoh Peony

Bartzella is an Itoh (intersectional) peony, a hybrid that crosses a herbaceous …
Duchesse de Nemours Peony

Duchesse de Nemours Peony

'Duchesse de Nemours' is one of the oldest and most beloved white herbaceous peo…
Foxglove (Digitalis)

Foxglove (Digitalis)

The foxglove is the elegant spire of the woodland-edge garden - tall, graceful s…
Shirley Temple Peony

Shirley Temple Peony

Shirley Temple is a herbaceous peony prized for enormous, fully double blooms th…
Kansas Peony

Kansas Peony

Kansas is a herbaceous peony prized for its intense, glowing watermelon-red to m…
Red Charm Peony

Red Charm Peony

Red Charm is a herbaceous hybrid peony (Paeonia 'Red Charm') prized for its enor…
Palace Purple Heuchera

Palace Purple Heuchera

Palace Purple is the cultivar that turned coral bells into a foliage star, prize…
Caramel Heuchera

Caramel Heuchera

Caramel Heuchera is a warm-toned coral bells prized for foliage that glows in sh…
Obsidian Heuchera

Obsidian Heuchera

Obsidian is prized for its solid, near-black foliage - one of the darkest and mo…
Lime Marmalade Heuchera

Lime Marmalade Heuchera

Lime Marmalade Heuchera (Heuchera 'Lime Marmalade') is a coral bells cultivar gr…
Georgia Peach Heuchera

Georgia Peach Heuchera

Georgia Peach is a coral bells cultivar grown almost entirely for its large, ruf…
Plum Pudding Heuchera

Plum Pudding Heuchera

'Plum Pudding' is one of the classic dark-leaved coral bells, grown almost entir…
Marmalade Heuchera

Marmalade Heuchera

Marmalade Heuchera (Heuchera 'Marmalade') is a foliage cultivar prized for warm,…
Tulip

Tulip

The tulip is the bold, brilliant heart of the spring garden - the bulb that, mor…
Berry Smoothie Heuchera

Berry Smoothie Heuchera

Berry Smoothie is a large, vigorous coral bells prized for big, ruffled leaves t…
Daffodil (Narcissus)

Daffodil (Narcissus)

The daffodil is the most cheerful and dependable harbinger of spring there is - …
Allium (Ornamental)

Allium (Ornamental)

Ornamental alliums are among the most striking and architectural plants in the g…
Dahlia

Dahlia

The dahlia is the dazzling star of the late-summer and autumn garden - a plant o…
Gladiolus

Gladiolus

The gladiolus is the great vertical flourish of the summer garden - tall, dramat…
Crocus

Crocus

The crocus is the brave little flower that opens first - pushing up through cold…
Hyacinth

Hyacinth

The hyacinth is, above all, a fragrance - one of the most intense, far-reaching …
Lily (Asiatic & Oriental)

Lily (Asiatic & Oriental)

The lily is one of the grandest flowers a bulb can give - tall, elegant stems ca…
Petunia

Petunia

The petunia is the workhorse of the summer container - the plant that, more than…
Marigold

Marigold

The marigold is the bright, cheerful, hardworking annual that almost every garde…
Geranium (Pelargonium)

Geranium (Pelargonium)

This is the plant almost everyone calls a "geranium" - the bright, dependable, s…
Begonia (Outdoor)

Begonia (Outdoor)

The begonia is one of the most useful summer plants for a tricky situation: it b…
Impatiens (Busy Lizzie)

Impatiens (Busy Lizzie)

Impatiens - long known affectionately as "busy Lizzie" - is the great shade-bedd…
Sunflower

Sunflower

The sunflower is pure summer joy - the tall, golden, beaming giant that turns it…
Zinnia

Zinnia

The zinnia is the dazzling, no-fuss star of the hot summer garden - an annual th…
Pansy & Viola

Pansy & Viola

Pansies and violas are the cheerful little faces that keep a garden colorful whe…
Cosmos

Cosmos

Cosmos is the airy, effortless, romantic annual that gardeners reach for when th…
Snapdragon (Antirrhinum)

Snapdragon (Antirrhinum)

The snapdragon is one of the most charming and playful flowers in the garden - a…
Clematis

Clematis

Clematis is, by common consent, the queen of the garden climbers - a vast and va…
Climbing & Rambling Roses

Climbing & Rambling Roses

Climbing and rambling roses take the most beloved flower in the world and send i…
Wisteria

Wisteria

Wisteria is one of the most magnificent - and most demanding - plants a gardener…
Honeysuckle (Lonicera)

Honeysuckle (Lonicera)

Honeysuckle is the climber of the warm summer evening - a cottage-garden classic…
Jasmine

Jasmine

Jasmine is, above all else, fragrance - the name itself has become a byword for …
Ivy (Hedera, Outdoor)

Ivy (Hedera, Outdoor)

Ivy is the great problem-solver of the garden - the tough, evergreen, self-cling…
Boxwood (Buxus)

Boxwood (Buxus)

Boxwood - simply "box" to many gardeners - is the great structural evergreen of …
Climbing Hydrangea

Climbing Hydrangea

The climbing hydrangea is the answer to one of the trickiest questions in garden…
Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum)

Japanese Maple (Acer palmatum)

The Japanese maple is, for many gardeners, the most beautiful small tree it is p…
Ornamental Grasses

Ornamental Grasses

Ornamental grasses are the plants that brought movement, light, and texture into…
Yew (Taxus)

Yew (Taxus)

Yew is the great timeless evergreen of gardens - the deep, dark, almost black-gr…
Privet (Ligustrum)

Privet (Ligustrum)

Privet is the familiar, hardworking hedging plant of countless gardens - the den…
Tomato

Tomato

The tomato is, for countless gardeners, the crop that started it all - the first…
Strawberry

Strawberry

The strawberry is the easiest, sweetest, most rewarding fruit a beginner can gro…
Culinary Herbs Bed

Culinary Herbs Bed

A culinary herbs bed is one of the most useful and rewarding things any gardener…
Blueberry

Blueberry

The blueberry is one of the most desirable fruit bushes for the home garden - pr…
Fruit Trees - Apple, Cherry & Plum (Home Orchard Intro)

Fruit Trees - Apple, Cherry & Plum (Home Orchard Intro)

A fruit tree is one of the most generous, long-lasting things a gardener can pla…
Aster (Symphyotrichum spp.)

Aster (Symphyotrichum spp.)

The Aster is one of the great stars of the autumn garden - a daisy-flowered pere…
Chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum morifolium)

Chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum morifolium)

The Chrysanthemum, affectionately known as the "mum," is the signature flower of…
Russian Sage (Salvia yangii)

Russian Sage (Salvia yangii)

Russian Sage is one of the most rewarding plants for a hot, sunny, low-maintenan…
Shasta Daisy (Leucanthemum x superbum)

Shasta Daisy (Leucanthemum x superbum)

The Shasta Daisy is the quintessential garden daisy - the cheerful, crisp, white…
Columbine (Aquilegia spp.)

Columbine (Aquilegia spp.)

Columbine is one of the most enchanting and distinctive flowers of the late spri…
Lupine (Lupinus spp.)

Lupine (Lupinus spp.)

The Lupine is one of the most dramatic and beloved plants of the early-summer ga…
Hollyhock (Alcea rosea)

Hollyhock (Alcea rosea)

The Hollyhock is the grand old giant of the cottage garden - a towering, romanti…
Weigela (Weigela florida)

Weigela (Weigela florida)

Weigela is one of the most generous and easygoing of the old-fashioned flowering…
Bleeding Heart (Lamprocapnos spectabilis)

Bleeding Heart (Lamprocapnos spectabilis)

The Bleeding Heart is one of the most charming and instantly recognizable plants…
Sweet Pea (Lathyrus odoratus)

Sweet Pea (Lathyrus odoratus)

The Sweet Pea is the most fragrant climbing annual of the cottage garden - a sle…
Coreopsis / Tickseed (Coreopsis grandiflora)

Coreopsis / Tickseed (Coreopsis grandiflora)

Coreopsis, commonly known as tickseed, is one of the most cheerful and dependabl…
Viburnum (Viburnum spp.)

Viburnum (Viburnum spp.)

Viburnum is one of the most useful and rewarding groups of garden shrubs there i…
Smokebush (Cotinus coggygria)

Smokebush (Cotinus coggygria)

The Smokebush, also called the smoke tree, is a deciduous shrub grown above all …
Mock Orange (Philadelphus coronarius)

Mock Orange (Philadelphus coronarius)

The Mock Orange is one of the great old-fashioned flowering shrubs - a tough, ea…
Lamb's Ear (Stachys byzantina)

Lamb's Ear (Stachys byzantina)

Lamb's Ear is the plant everyone reaches out to touch.
Joe-Pye Weed (Eutrochium purpureum)

Joe-Pye Weed (Eutrochium purpureum)

Joe-Pye weed is a stately native North American perennial built for the back of …
Balloon Flower (Platycodon grandiflorus)

Balloon Flower (Platycodon grandiflorus)

The Balloon Flower is one of the most charming and well-behaved perennials you c…
Japanese Anemone (Anemone hupehensis / Anemone x hybrida)

Japanese Anemone (Anemone hupehensis / Anemone x hybrida)

The Japanese Anemone, often called the windflower, is one of the loveliest plant…
Globe Thistle (Echinops ritro)

Globe Thistle (Echinops ritro)

The Globe Thistle is one of the most striking architectural plants you can grow …
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)

Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)

Yarrow is one of the toughest, most rewarding perennials a gardener can grow.
Bee Balm (Monarda)

Bee Balm (Monarda)

Bee balm, also known as bergamot or monarda, is one of the best pollinator peren…
Penstemon (Beardtongue)

Penstemon (Beardtongue)

Penstemon, commonly called beardtongue, is a graceful, long-flowering perennial …
Gaillardia (Blanket Flower)

Gaillardia (Blanket Flower)

Gaillardia, universally known as blanket flower, is one of the sunniest, most ch…
Liatris (Blazing Star / Gayfeather)

Liatris (Blazing Star / Gayfeather)

Liatris, known as Blazing Star or Gayfeather, is one of the most striking flower…
Baptisia (False Indigo)

Baptisia (False Indigo)

Baptisia, commonly called False Indigo, is one of the finest long-lived perennia…
Kniphofia (Red Hot Poker / Torch Lily)

Kniphofia (Red Hot Poker / Torch Lily)

Kniphofia, known as Red Hot Poker or Torch Lily, is one of the most dramatic flo…
Agapanthus (Lily of the Nile)

Agapanthus (Lily of the Nile)

Agapanthus, often called Lily of the Nile or African Lily, is a favourite for it…
Canna Lily (Canna)

Canna Lily (Canna)

The Canna Lily is one of the boldest, most dramatic plants you can add to a summ…
Calla Lily (Zantedeschia)

Calla Lily (Zantedeschia)

The Calla Lily is one of the most elegant flowers in the garden - prized for its…
Ranunculus (Ranunculus asiaticus)

Ranunculus (Ranunculus asiaticus)

The Ranunculus, often called the Persian Buttercup, produces some of the most ex…
Muscari (Grape Hyacinth)

Muscari (Grape Hyacinth)

Muscari, commonly known as the Grape Hyacinth, is one of the easiest and most ch…
Snowdrop (Galanthus)

Snowdrop (Galanthus)

The Snowdrop is the flower that ends winter.
Dianthus / Pinks (Dianthus)

Dianthus / Pinks (Dianthus)

Dianthus, known to gardeners as pinks, are the sweetly clove-scented cottage-gar…
Primrose (Primula)

Primrose (Primula)

The Primrose is one of the best-loved harbingers of spring - a low rosette of cr…
Candytuft (Iberis)

Candytuft (Iberis)

Candytuft is a low, spreading evergreen plant that erupts into such a dense shee…
Nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus)

Nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus)

The Nasturtium is one of the easiest and most cheerful annuals a gardener can gr…
Calendula (Calendula officinalis)

Calendula (Calendula officinalis)

Calendula, often called Pot Marigold, is a cheerful, easy-going hardy annual tha…
Sweet Alyssum (Lobularia maritima)

Sweet Alyssum (Lobularia maritima)

Sweet Alyssum is a low, spreading annual grown for its dense carpet of tiny, hon…
Lobelia (Lobelia erinus)

Lobelia (Lobelia erinus)

The trailing and bushy Lobelia is one of the great classics of summer containers…

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