Salvias, like other perennials, grow like crazy and give us lots of blooms during the season. They need to be cut back …
Perennials
Add A Pop Of Pizazz To Your Garden With Chartreuse Foliage Plants
We love chartreuse foliage plants and flowers because they combine oh so well with all other colors and really get our …
Plants With Fabulous Foliage To Add Interest To Your Garden
Blooming plants, whether annual or perennial, are wonderful and light up any outdoor space but there are other ways to …
How To Successfully Plant Perennials
Perennials can provide quite the show and add color as well as form and texture to the garden. Most of them bloom part …
127 Stunning Desert Plants and Succulents
From the colorful Paddle Plant, to the adorable Burro’s Tail, desert plants of all shapes and sizes can be found …
What Everyone Should Know About Growing Rosemary
Oh yes siree, rosemary is wonderful! It's a woody perennial evergreen herb that's commonly sold as a shrub and is …
Pruning To Rejuvenate My Salvia Greggii
There are many different types, sizes and colors of salvias, both perennial and annual, which are all commonly planted …
Bird Of Paradise Plant Care
In Southern California this plant, with its bright, bold and easily recognizable flowers, is ubiquitous. It's found …
Shrimp Plant Needs a Good Pruning Every Year
Oh my yes, this plant is very appropriately named. This beauty with the shrimp-like flowers gives a tropical feel …
Pruning Salvias: Pruning & Trimming 3 Different Types of Salvia Plants
Salvias are very popular garden plants. Here are tips for pruning Salvias (3 different types) in fall or spring to keep …
Foxtail Fern: An Easy Care & Fun Plant
I've loved these tough yet attractive ferns ever since I saw a small 1 in a hanging pot in a greenhouse at the Brooklyn …
How I Trained My Hoya
To put it plain and simple: I love my Hoyas. The Hoya carnosa variegata growing up the umbrella on the patio next to my …
The Beloved Hoyas: Care And Repotting Tips
Some many beloved Hoyas, so little room! There are over 200 species of Hoyas out there with a diverse array of foliage …
My Shrimp Plant Pruning Experiment
Even though I've been gardening for over 50 years (egads - that's a long time!) and have my tried and true ways of doing …
Crested Japanese Bird’s Nest Fern Care Tips
I love my far out new fern. The Crested Japanese Bird's Nest Fern makes a great houseplant. This post, which includes a …
Staghorn Ferns Had Me At Hello
I love staghorn ferns ... each one is a horticultural work of art, truly. I remember distinctly when I first saw a …
Pruning Perennial Salvias
Salvias are popular all the world over. I've seen them growing in England, the Canary Islands, Mexico, and in many …