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Spring Blooming Perennials Many perennial plants are just breaking dormancy in the spring and won't be blooming until summer or fall. These great plants however add spring color with early flowers. spring blooming plants • perennial plants • spring flowers • early perennials • polemonium
Rose-elf and Fairy-spuds Ya gotta love a wildflower if it’s called Spring Beauty. Even Poison Ivy or Garlic Mustard would seem more likeable if either were called Spring Beauty. But they’re not. Only Spring Beauties are … well … Spring Beauties. And they are. Beauties, that is. rose-elf and fairy-spuds • gregg m. pasterick • wildflowers of north america • botany • ecology
Mailorder Nurseries Online and Off, Part 2 - Munchkin Nursery We web gardeners not only have access to plants and goodies, we can get to know the people who operate the nurseries, too. If any of you subscribe to the Gardens-L, Shadegardens, or Perennials email lists (to name a few) you probably feel like you already know Gene Bush, owner of Munchkin Nursery in Depauw, Indiana. If you haven't had the pleasure, find out about Gene, his nursery and some of the plants he has for your shady garden. munchkin nursery • mailorder nurseries • online nurseries • mailorder plants • nurseries
What Still Looks Good? Inspiration for the fall garden! Enjoy some unusual hardy perennials, grasses, trees and shrubs with wonderful fall interest as guest columnist and garden designer Abby Millager describes her zone 5 Massachusetts garden in mid October. fall • autumn • ornamental grass • shrub foliage • color
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Flower for a Day Asiatic Dayflower, as its name so succinctly reveals, is a non-native from Asia, with flowers that last but a single day. What it doesn’t tell us is how lovely these primarily blue flowers are, or that they are “primarily” blue rather than completely blue because they do have a third, rather insignificant lower white petal. flower for a day • gregg m. pasterick • wildflowers of north america • botany • ecology
Late Color - Part 2 Last week, I shared some late color from my USDA zone 7 garden in the green and yellow range; this week, we'll blaze out! Get out your sunglasses and enjoy the color. <b>Warning! Lots of images - may load slowly for you.</b> leaf color • foliage color • fall color • fothergilla gardenii • dwarf fothergilla
Off-Season Dreaming, or, To Cuddle With Catalogs – Part III The second half of a baker's dozen of the author's favorite catalogs and associated web sites. plant delights nursery • juniper level botanic gardens • tony avent • hosta • bluestone perennials
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Plant Families: Bignoniaceae and Boraginaceae Bright colors, aggressive vines and five o’clock shadows hold sway this week. Reds, oranges, yellows, blues and purples all blossom and bloom, decorating the landscape with festive abandon. Coiled tendrils unwind, grasping onto absolutely everything they fall across. Plants, hairier than my Uncle Paul, wear their flowers like gaudy costume jewelry. Many of these wildflowers, if not well known, are certainly recognizable by sight. Some even turn up in the garden. So what are these, these hirsute plants, these plants that won’t let go, these plants that flash us with bold colors, bugger the trench coat? plant families: bignoniaceae and boraginaceae • wildflowers of north america • gregg m. pasterick • botany • ecology
Plant Families: Caprifoliaceae and Caryophyllaceae Honeysuckles and Pinks, two Families with a reputation. plant families: caprifoliaceae and caryophyllaceae • gregg m. pasterick • wildflowers of north america • botany • ecology
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Royal Catchfly When July rolls around, and my mind turns to wildflowers, I think ‘prairies,’ and Royal Catchfly nudges its way to the front row. royal catchfly • gregg m. pasterick • wildflowers of north america • botany • ecology
Scarlet Stars in a Green Cosmos Whether subtle or obvious, small or large, most wildflowers don’t have to do much work to get seen. Some require you at least be paying attention, but most find a way to get themselves noticed. Every now and then, something can be truly breathtaking, even if you’ve seen it before. Hiking a path through the woods in California this spring, I had my first encounter with such a wildflower. My wife saw it first, but rather than call my attention to it, she allowed me to discover it for myself. To do otherwise would have been a bit like her opening my birthday presents for me. scarlet stars in a green cosmos • gregg m. pasterick • wildflowers of north america • ecology • environment
Plant Families: Araliaceae and Aristolochiaceae - Ginseng and Birthwort Woodlands are full of surprises during the spring such as migrating songbirds, delicious morel mushrooms, wildflowers splashed about like pigments on a painter’s pallet, and butterflies, emerging from winter hibernation, fluttering about drunkenly. But some of spring’s surprises, a few a bit like botanical doubloons in a pirate’s treasure chest, are easy to overlook. Three such “treasures”, Ginseng and Dwarf Ginseng, both members of the Ginseng Family, and Wild Ginger of the Birthwort Family, all seem bashful by virtue of their small blossoms. plant families: araliaceae and aristolochiaceae - • gregg m. pasterick • wildflowers of north america • botany • ecology |
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