Have you ever grown elephant ears or colocasia? The plant gets its name because of the huge leaves that resemble ears on elephants. In my Canadian garden zone of 5b this plant is a tender perennial. I know I said … Continued
I chose some new plants for the garden this past spring, ones with interesting foliage and ones that wouldn’t require a lot of maintenance. Painter’s palette was one of the plants with cream and green leaves and a v shaped … Continued
The Polish Spirit clematis grows happily in the trellis garden for many years. It provides many lovely purple blooms. In 2010 the trellis had to be moved for some renovations on the basement and the clematis was dug and put … Continued
I used an old white, enamel wash tub that I got from Freecycle and planted it up with succulents. It has grown well for the first year and some of the succulents bloomed.
This is the first time I’m trying to grow okra seed in my veggie container garden. The seeds were given out at Canada Blooms, which we visited last March. This isn’t a veggie that is on my shopping list and I … Continued
Lovage is an edible, tall and erect, herbaceous perennial plant that is one of the first to start poking through the ground in early April. It belongs to the umbellifier family and can grow up to 2.5 meters tall. The name lovage comes from the … Continued
Yucca or Adam’s Needle is a gorgeous, tall perennial, ornamental plant for the garden. It is classified as an evergreen shrub that doesn’t shed its needles and it doesn’t have a trunk. It likes dry and sandy soil conditions. A … Continued
The mellow yellows are all over the garden this week … coreopsis, daylilies, evening primrose, stonecrop, buttercups and more. The weather has been wonderful, hot but not necessarily humid. It’s the kind of weather I could enjoy all summer long.
Calendula officinalis … calundula … pot marigold These bright yellow and orange annual flowers have a long blooming period – from mid summer to first frost. This plant prefers a fair amount of sun but isn’t overly fussy on the … Continued
I’ve got parrots in the garden … not real parrots because we don’t live in the right climate … but parrot tulips. Parrot tulips are known for their colourful, curly, fringed petals that perhaps resemble parrot feathers. They have gorgeous … Continued
Last Fall I potted up tulip bulbs and sank some of the pots into the ground and kept some in the garage over the winter. This proved to be a great success and I’m now able to move the pots around … Continued
Ninebark or Physocarpus are deciduous shrubs that are easy to grow. There are several varieties, diablo and summer wine being two of them. This native shrub prefers full sun to part shade and grows in the wild from east coast to Manitoba. … Continued
S for Shoofly … or Nicandra physalodes … or better known as Apple of Peru. This annual plant, a member of the Solanaceae (nightshade) family, prefers full sun and moist soil. It is a native of South America. the plant can … Continued
Petunias are those popular annuals that will fill our pots with colourful, trumpet shaped blooms throughout the summer months. They come in varieties of grandiflora, multiflora, milliflora and hedgiflora. Some have single blooms and some have multiple blooms.
Helianthus are annual sunflowers that come in many varieties. They grace our gardens with lovely big blooms and seed heads. The sunflower, a native to North America, is an annual plant that should be in every garden. They adore full … Continued