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

Echinacea is a lovely herb that produces beautiful, cone-like purple flowers. It’s also commonly used in herbal remedies and is often found in teas. Have you ever considered growing Echinacea? It really isn’t hard! Growing up in the midwest, we had tons of Echinacea growing in our yard. It continues to be one of my...

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

If you’ve ever been stopped in your tracks by a dense, vine-like plant with dark green circular leaves and big red, yellow, and orange flowers, there’s a good chance you’ve laid eyes on a Nasturtium. This flower is one of my favorites – I can remember a time as a young man planting this flower...

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

Foxglove, a flower native to Western Europe, is a popular plant for gardeners, due to its height and stunning foliage. In this article, we’ll do a deep dive on growing and caring for Foxglove, as well as when to plant it and how to harvest its seeds. Let’s dive in! What is Foxglove? Foxglove (Digitalis...

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

Cultivating Larkspur blooms (Consolida spp.) in the spring landscape gives towering, early-season color. Once you’ve learned how to cultivate Larkspur, you’ll probably keep them in your garden season after season. When and how to plant Larkspurs can vary depending on where you live. However, once established, its maintenance is straightforward. Larkspur flowers emerge in the...

How To Grow Clove Pink - Featured image
5 min read Flowers And Houseplants

Clove Pink (Dianthus caryophyllus) flowers come in a variety of hues. However, the term “pinks” originally refers to the Old English word pynken, which means “pinking shears.” It refers to the notched margins of the plant’s leaves rather than the color. Clove Pink herb plants are linked to carnations. The clove aroma is carried on...

How To Grow Coral Bells - Featured image
6 min read Flowers And Houseplants

The term “Coral Bells” refers to various species of the Heuchera genus, which includes hundreds of variants and hybrids. Coral Bells is a perennial foliage plant with new variations developed each year. Native to North America, the plants will grow in spherical mounds with a wooden rootstock or crown at the base and tiny bell-shaped...

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

Penstemon plants, also called Beardtongue are herbaceous perennials with lance-shaped leaves and tubular flower spikes. Pink, white, purple, crimson, and (occasionally) yellow are some of the flower hues. The term Beardtongue relates to the pollen-free stamen that protrudes from the bloom, giving it the appearance of a bearded iris. From seeds put in the spring...

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

The Columbine plant (Aquilegia) is a low-maintenance perennial that provides seasonal appeal for much of the year. It flowers in a variety of hues in the spring, emerging from its gorgeous dark green leaves, which become crimson in the fall. Hummingbirds love the bell-shaped blossoms, which may also be utilized in cut-flower arrangements. Columbine is...

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

One of the interior western United States’ best-kept secrets is the Subalpine Larkspur. Delphinium barbeyi is an amazingly beautiful native wildflower that sends up beautiful, cone-like bunches of star-shaped purple flowers up to 5 feet high and is a great source of food for local pollinators, like bees and hummingbirds. If you’re looking to add...

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

If you drive along the mountain highways of southwestern Colorado in mid to late summer, you’re likely to see small pink or purple colored flowers lining the road and hillsides, especially in areas that have recently experienced wildfire. In all likelihood, you are looking at Fireweed. Fireweed can spread across hillsides and get a bit...

Rocky Mountain Beeplant Growing Guide - Featured image
4 min read Flowers And Houseplants

If you were to hike meadowy trails through a large swath of North America, you might spy a 2-foot-tall bush with big, explosive-looking spidery pink flowers covered in bees, butterflies, and other pollinators. If it resembles anything like the photo above, you’ve just found an example of the Rocky Mountain Beeplant, an annual bush with...