It may be difficult to find attractive orange summer flowering perennials for the summertime garden, but the ‘Julia’ Coneflower answers the call with a gorgeous rich orange flower. It is a long-blooming plant from early to late summer. This is a compact plant for a sunny garden growing around 15” – 18” in height, […]
It’s nice to know that there is one clematis that comes into full bloom in late summer. Spring or early summer are when you see most clematis in flower, so to have one blooming now is pretty sweet! Which brings us to this week’s perennial which is the Sweet Autumn Clematis. Its name […]
We haven’t featured a white flowering perennial for a while, so this week the ‘Royal Standard’ Hosta is in the spotlight. And, with pretty good timing too, since late summer is its blooming time! You may not think of hostas in terms of flowers since for the most part they are relied upon […]
In celebration of the 4th of July holiday, the perennial this week is the balloon flower, but instead of just one plant, we’re choosing three of them for their patriotic colors of red, white, and blue. The Balloon Flower garden perennial is a pretty cool plant in appearance – the flower buds look like […]
Would I be wrong if I said that most everyone loves daisies in their garden? My favorite bouquets will always have white daisies in them. And, white petal daisies with their sunny yellow centers just liven up gardens and landscapes. A number of years ago, I bought one 6” pot of the ‘Becky’ Shasta […]
We think this week’s perennial would definitely make a bright and cheery impression in any landscape or garden, with its lemon yellow trumpet-shaped flowers nestled in the tips of its slender grass-like green foliage. Sounds pretty, doesn’t it? The ‘Happy Returns’ daylily is all that! It’s a compact plant growing to 15” – 18” […]
We’re starting the ‘A Perennial a Week’ series (a series featuring types and varieties of garden perennials) off with a perennial that I saw in a few yards last summer, and I don’t recall ever seeing it before, so it was new for me. It is tall, about 3 feet (but there are shorter varieties), […]
If you are not familiar with installing wood posts, you can become overwhelmed with the various designs for concrete footings out there. This is the concrete footing we spec for various projects. It is designed to protect wood posts by allowing the bottom of the post to be exposed for drainage to help reduce the […]
Spring and summer are just around the corner. Many homeowners are looking forward to some mild temperatures to be able to get started on some springtime yard cleanup. It’s amazing what accumulates in the yard over the winter. If your to-do list for the yard includes pruning small tree branches, dead wooding, or cutting up […]
