This sultry, deep-purple Delphinium from New Zealand features strong stems, which rarely need staking, carrying well-filled spikes of large flowers, each with a bee fancifully striped in purple and white. The result is ‘Purple Passion’ — a vertical color punch for the border and a bonus of attractive, boldly cut foliage throughout the season. The […]

When Leslie Woodriff, a Lily breeder in California, created ‘Star Gazer’ a quarter of a century ago, it instantly set a new standard for Oriental Lilies. This fragrant hybrid grew beautifully in the average garden, and its large, upfacing blooms on strong stems were outstanding as cut flowers.  This fabulous Lily has brilliant crimson flowers […]

This Clematis has personality. Its 3–4in ivory blooms sport geometric tufts of dark-purple stamens that make for stylish contrast and call attention to each flower. It blooms singly or in clusters on new growth in June, with a second show possible in late summer. For beautiful colors, extravagance of blooms, and graceful habit, nothing compares […]

For a summer-long festival, set the stage with richly-colored foliage, from a drape of bright chartreuse Ipomoea Sweet Caroline Light Green   to graceful arching blades of purple Pennisetum glaucum ‘Jester’. Add bold purple, pink, and green from the sun-tolerant Coleus ‘Mt. Washington’. Accent with delicate peachy blooms of Calibrachoa Cabaret Apricot’ and wands of Agastache […]

A spring planting brings a summer-long harvest of beauty as the chartreuse seedlings of the Ornamental Millet ‘Jester’ mature into 3–4ft, clustered stalks of ribbon-like, purple foliage.  They are topped in early summer by 12in, purple seed spikes that are quite handsome in dried arrangements. Eye-catching and original as a temporary hedge, border accent, or […]

The very full, cloud-white clusters of blooms look like tiny, 1–2in trumpets sounding the clarion call of summer. They are suspended high on sturdy stalks surrounded by rosettes of strap-like, bright green foliage. The best white Agapanthus in our trials. Agapanthus is a showy South African genus of 10 species that are widely grown for […]

Elegantly accessorized, this Calla Lily matches its dark blossoms with silver-flecked, purple-edged leaves and deep purple stems. Choose your most sophisticated container to display it as a specimen plant. The South African genus Zantedeschia is enjoying a fresh wave ot popularity as hybridizers expand the range of flower colors well beyond the familiar white. The […]

Adorn window boxes or baskets with a cataract of colorful flowers and foliage all summer from five of the best cascading plants. A lively blend of silver, white, and purple sets off the bright bubblegum-pink blooms of a new Petunia.  The combinations starts with two plants of Calitunia  Purple, a bright hybrid with a yellow […]

Wonderfully fragrant and suffused with soft pastel pink, the huge blooms on this plant are showstopping in any setting.  On and On is a descendent of the most famous Daylily in the world, Stella de Oro, and it lives up to its ancestor’s reputation for a long, LONG season of bloom! These flowers are quite […]

This video is very interesting because of the information that it provides to everyone on taking care of your plants in the garden or hanging off of somewhere.  The video is very informational and interesting. Everyone needs to take good care of their plants and have them fresh and colorful at all times possible.  It is […]

The only thing lacking from colorful, hardy, long-blooming Alstroemeria has been fragrance — and now Sweet Laura provides that, plus a floriferous habit you will just love!  From early summer until well into fall, this vigorous little plant bears masses of russet-marked yellow blooms in clusters of 3 to 5. Each flower is about 1 […]

Red, orange, and yellow stripes against a purple background make the tall leaves a colorful combination all on their own. They’ve become a stopping point in our Long Border. Bright orange flowers fly like flags above the leaves. Cannas are tropical and subtropical bulbs from the Americas that are invaluable to the garden in summer […]