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Tellima Grandiflora Growing And Care Guide - Featured image
3 min read Flowers And Houseplants

Tellima grandiflora is an excellent plant to add to any native flower garden in the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, and Montana. It forms a lush, spreading groundcover that is perfect for shady, damp gardens. In this article, we’ll explore the fringe cup flower, how to grow it, and everything else you need to know. What is...

Piggyback Plant Growing And Care Guide - Featured image
4 min read Flowers And Houseplants

The piggyback plant is a great addition to your garden, both as a houseplant and as a native, shade-loving perennial groundcover when planted in the Pacific Northwest. In its native range, it stays green year-round and grows best in the western, rainier parts of California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. What is a piggyback plant?...

Crocus Growing And Care Guide - Featured image
4 min read Flowers And Houseplants

In my neck of the woods, even though I’m in planting zone 9a, the fall through spring months are long and gloomy. By the time later winter rolls around, I have to have a little splash of color. The best way to get it from February to April is by planting crocuses. It seems like...

Red Clover Growing And Care Guide - Featured image
5 min read Flowers And Houseplants

I’m a big fan of clovers, and red clover definitely has a space in my yard. I like to throw it in random spots, particularly along borders, as a sort of wild-growing flower. Red clover is generally grown in northern and midwestern states, however, it is occasionally grown as a winter annual in the Southeast....

Weigela Growing And Care Guide - Featured image
5 min read Flowers And Houseplants

This vintage beauty has occasional blooms throughout the summer and spring. Weigela requires little upkeep. Weigela is a robust and hardy shrub, thus taking care of it entails planting and watering a growing weigela in the appropriate location. What is Weigela? Although they rank one or two tiers below more familiar species like lilacs, azaleas,...

Pride Of Madeira Growing And Care Guide - Featured image
5 min read Flowers And Houseplants

The Pride of Madeira is a popular addition to garden borders and beds and one of the easiest plants to grow and maintain. A native of the Portuguese island of Madeira and the Spanish Cayman Islands, it has become readily popular throughout America. Though the plant is not picky, it needs to be checked regularly...

Lantana Growing And Care Guide - Featured image
5 min read Flowers And Houseplants

Lantana plants are well-liked and cultivated in outdoor hanging baskets or as ground covers because of their distinctive vine-like appearance that sprawls from woody branches. Round clusters of tiny, vividly colored flowers, which can be yellow, orange, white, red, pink, blue, or purple, are what Lantana is famous for. The almost bright colors are frequently...

Cigar Plant Growing And Care Guide - Featured image
6 min read Flowers And Houseplants

The Cigar plant (Cuphea ignea) is a low-growing, tender perennial shrub, and is more commonly known as the firecracker plant or the Mexican cigar plant. This tropical evergreen shrub is endowed with a bright red flower with black and white tips that resembles a lit cigar. The Latin word ignea means fire. The densely branched...

Annual Geranium Growing And Care Guide - Featured image
5 min read Flowers And Houseplants

The well-known Annual Geranium blooms with red, purple, pink, or white blossoms and thick, pleated leaves. Authentic geraniums are frequently known as cranesbill or hardy geraniums. Before the genus Pelargonium was named in 1789, both kinds of plants were formerly classified as belonging to the Geranium genus. But many Pelargonium species continue to go by...

Bleeding Heart Growing And Care Guide - Featured image
5 min read Flowers And Houseplants

Early spring brings out the flowers of the Bleeding Heart vine (Dicentra spectabilis), which adorns the yard with eye-catching, heart-shaped blossoms borne on arching stalks. As the plant awakens from dormancy, attractive bluish-green foliage first appears. The Bleeding Heart’s flowers can be all-white or all-pink, as with the Bleeding Heart hybrid “Alba.” What are bleeding...

Pentas Growing And Care Guide - Featured image
5 min read Flowers And Houseplants

Pentas is also known as Pentas lanceolata. Due to the unusual star-shaped blossoms, it is also known as the “Egyptian Star Flower.” When fully grown, this shrub can reach a height of 4 feet and can range in height from 18 to 36 inches. The Rubiaceae family, which also includes well-known ornamentals like gardenias and...